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  • Contrarian Cash Flows & Unconventional Acquisitions with Codie Sanchez

    "I don't want to live in a world of strip malls. We have to find a solution for having diversified businesses in our economy aligned with human self-interest. And human self-interest is owning your own small businesses and investing in them because there's a monetary component that makes sense," - Codie Sanchez

    Do you want to go to a Starbucks every day? Or shop at a big box store ALL the time?

    In this age of bigger is better and convenience is king, we've lost the ability to build better communities through investing locally.

    In the coming years, the largest generation, the baby boomers, will be leaving their small, mom-and-pop businesses behind to move into retirement, creating the greatest wealth transfer since the industrial revolution.

    So how can investors navigate this opportunity in a way that pays great dividends?

    Codie Sanchez is the Founder and CEO of Contrarian Thinking, with over 1.5+ million subscribers and the Co-Founder of Unconventional Acquisitions focused on small business acquisitions. Her 15-year background in Finance includes leadership positions at Goldman Sachs, State Street, and Vanguard. She was listed as a Top 25 Most Innovative Leader in Cannabis and a Top Female Investor by Forbes.

    On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Codie joins me to discuss her journey from Finance to investing in neighborhood-level mom-and-pop businesses and why she started Contrarian Thinking.

    We discuss how to become an owner of a business you are currently working in and why local matters now more than ever.

    Listen in for Codie's insight into what to consider when considering M&A in your neighborhood and the questions to ask to determine which business investments are right for you. Plus, how you can become a contrarian thinker today and start earning passive income to achieve financial freedom with the guidance of Codie Sanchez.

    Key Takeaways

    Codie shares her background in Finance

    Why business terms are her love language

    How her love of words plays into who she is

    Why taking things local matters now more than ever

    Why she pushes entrepreneurship for people to become owners rather than renters

    The idea behind Contrarian Thinking and why being a contrarian is vital in this era

    The methods Codie and her team employ to help people figure out their next financial move

    Why you should be negotiating more than your next raise or more vacation time during your next employee review

    Why she sees money as the freedom to be the architect of your life

    Her advice for people looking to buy their first business

    How to determine which business is right for you to invest in

    The questions she asks when she is trying to determine if a deal is for her

    Why she doesn't think there will be a recession

    The deals that Corie is excited about right now

    Connect with Codie Sanchez

    Codie Sanchez

    Connect with Addison Wiggin

    Consilience Financial

    Be sure to follow The Wiggin Sessions on your socials. You can find me on—

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    Resources

    Contrarian Cashflow

    Unconventional Acquisitions

    Contrarian Thinking

    G-File Archives - The Dispatch

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    40 min
  • Investing In Health Care with Dr. David Eifrig

    "We're in the platinum age of healthcare," - Dr. David Eifrig

    In the age of technology, healthcare is moving at the speed of light, with new research leading to the development of cures for everything from hair loss to new cancer therapies.

    In the coming years, your genetic code will be the key to unlocking your life potential to be over one hundred.

    With all of these advancements, there are emerging opportunities for investors in the healthcare market.

    Dr. David Eifrig started his career trading derivatives at Goldman Sachs for over a decade. In 1995, he decided to switch careers and left Wall Street to become a medical doctor becoming a board-eligible eye surgeon before landing at Stansberry Research, where he launched his Retirement Trader, Retirement Millionaire, and Prosperity Investor newsletters. He is also the author of five books, including The Living Cure: The Promise of Cancer Immunotherapy. He owns and produces his own wine at Eifrig Cellars LLC in northern Sonoma County, California.

    On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Dr. Eifrig joins me to discuss the platinum age of healthcare and the science of rapidly developing new therapies for everything from Alzheimer's to new genetic therapies for cancers.

    We discuss his predictions for where he sees healthcare going in the coming years and why your genetic code is the key to unlocking your potential to live to be one hundred or more.

    Listen in to learn insider secrets on what you should pay attention to as an individual and an investor to take advantage of this new era's rapid pace of discovery. Plus, he shares 2 of his healthcare picks for investors now and the biggest opportunity he's seen in any market.

    Key Takeaways

    Dr. Eifrig shares his journey from Wall Street to medicine, to combining health information with financial information through his newsletters

    Dr. Eifrig shares the most innovative things in the healthcare field right now

    How genetic profiles are helping doctors to create cures at a rapid-fire rate

    Where Big Pharma is focusing its attention right now

    Why genetic editing is the key to changing the average healthy lifespan of individuals

    How to use your genetic profile to stay up to date on the latest cures as they happen

    Dr. Eifrig shares how he and his team evaluate a healthcare company in order to determine its investment potential 

    How macroeconomic turmoil affects the healthcare industries

    How The Living Cure works by using your own cells to cure diseases

    Dr. Eifrig shares how he got into the wine business

    Connect with Dr. David Eifrig

    Dr. Eifrig on the Biggest Opportunity He Has Ever Seen in Any Market

    Dr. Eifrig on LinkedIn

    Connect with Addison Wiggin

    Consilience Financial

    Be sure to follow The Wiggin Sessions on your socials. You can find me on—

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    Instagram @thewigginsessions

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    Resources

    Stansberry Research

    Retirement Trader

    Retirement Millionaire

    Prosperity Investor

    The Living Cure

    Eifrig Cellars LLC

    Illumina

    Editas Medicine

    Bill Bonner— The Crisis That Could Bring Down the American Empire

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    52 min
  • Allen Sukholitsky— Investing in Art During Inflation

    "For us to be the only institution operating purely from an investment perspective, in a $2 trillion asset class that almost nobody else in that market operates in with a purely investment perspective…that gives us quite a bit of an ability to generate alpha for our investors,"- Allen Sukholitsky

    What asset classes do better than others when inflation is high?

    Typically, assets like oil and gold hold their own when the economy is in flux. But there are other opportunities for investors.

    Masterworks is a platform with a mission to fractionalize art, making it an accessible investment opportunity.

    Allen Sukholitsky is the Chief Investment Officer at Masterworks, the leading art investment platform for self-directed investors. Before Masterworks, Allen was a Senior Market Strategist at Goldman Sachs, focused on investment strategy, portfolio construction, and investment implementation. He has almost two decades of global economic and investment experience and has been a keynote speaker at investment conferences across the country.

    On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Allen joins me to discuss his view of the factors influencing the current inflation and the need for stable investments at a time like this.

    Allen shares how the ROI in art stands up to other investments and why art might be more attractive for investors than other tangible assets such as oil and gold based on its performance over a three-year period.

    Listen in to understand the attractiveness of art as a real asset and how you can purchase shares in great masterpieces from postwar and contemporary artists like Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and more by becoming an exclusive member of Masterworks today.

    Key Takeaways

    Allen shares the two elements that have brought us to the level of inflation we are at today

    The bigger problem than inflation for the FEDS

    How trickle-down quantitative easing bleeds into the economy

    What would happen if the FEDS continued to raise rates even when inflation begins to resolve itself

    What asset classes do better than others when inflation is high

    Why art might be more attractive for investors than other tangible assets such as oil and gold

    The enormous opportunity that led Allen to into the art as an investment market

    Making art an accessible investment opportunity

    How Masterworks is fractionalizing art so investors can own shares of a multimillion-dollar work of art

    Allen shares the average return on an investment when it is sold through Masterworks

    How Masterworks sources the market data for the paintings they invest in

    Why Masterworks focuses their efforts on postwar and contemporary art worth between $500k-$30 million

    Why 4% is the average risk tolerance for an investor's allocation into art

    How to use the Sharpe Ratio to maximize returns and reduce volatility

    Allen shares Masterworks' three-year milestone garnered by outperforming 15 major asset classes

    Connect with Allen Sukholitsky

    Allen on LinkedIn

    Connect with Addison Wiggin

    Consilience Financial

    Be sure to follow The Wiggin Sessions on your socials. You can find me on—

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    Instagram @thewigginsessions

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    Resources

    Masterworks

    Sharpe Ratio

    Your Piece of Art History

    Investing in Fine Art w/ Scott Lynn - EP 23 The Wiggin Sessions

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    42 min
  • Mark Skousen—Forecasts, Strategies, and FreedomFest 2023

    "We're still being challenged by the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020 pandemic, and we have the Russia and Ukrainian war. What's going to be next nuclear war? Some pretty shocking things are happening that will keep us all busy,"-Mark Skousen What do the current supply chain issues have to do with the current inflation rates?

    And are the supply chain issues currently resolving themselves?

    Mark Skousen (Ph.D., economics, George Washington University) was recently named one of the top 20 living economists in the world (www.superscholar.org ). In 2014, he was appointed a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University in California. Since 1980, he has been editor-in-chief of Forecasts & Strategies, a popular award-winning investment newsletter. He's also the author of several books, including the highly referenced, The Making of Modern Economics - 4th Edition. He is the producer of Freedom Fest, "the world's largest gathering of free minds," which meets every July.

    On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Mark joins me to discuss the impact of supply chain issues on the current economy and how the free market is finding solutions to supply chain shortages.

    Mark shares the type of inflation he believes is on its way down, his prediction of FED panic and what will happen to the economy in 2023, and the stories that led him to update his book, The Making of Modern Economics.

    Listen in as Mark shares how his work with Hudson Link teaching colleges courses at Sing Sing Correctional Facility is changing lives and why we need groups like Freedom Fest to stay in existence now more than ever.

    Key Takeaways

    How the difference between measuring the Gross Output (GO) and the GDP effects the measurement of the economy

    What the supply chain issues have to do with the current inflation rates

    How the market is moving to solve the supply change problems

    Mark shares which type of inflation he feels will soon be on his way down

    Mark shares his personal prediction of FED panic and what will happen to the economy in 2023

    The only tool the FED has to ease the recession

    Why Mark feels Ben Bernanke should have been fired rather than given the Nobel Peace Prize

    How Mark developed the theories that led him to write The Making of Modern Economics

    Mark shares how his work with Hudson Link teaching colleges courses at Sing Sing Correctional Facility helped reduce the recidivism rate

    Mark shares the background behind Freedom Fest

    How much of the idea for Freedom Fest is based on the Mont Pelerin Society

    Why groups like Freedom Fest need to stay in existence to keep socialism from dominating our society

    Connect with Mark Skousen

    Mark Skousen

    Connect with Addison Wiggin

    Consilience Financial

    Be sure to follow The Wiggin Sessions on your socials. You can find me on—

    Facebook @thewigginsessions

    Instagram @thewigginsessions

    Twitter @WigginSessions

    Resources

    Forecasts & Strategies

    Skousen Books

    A Viennese Waltz Down Wall Street

    The Making of Modern Economics - 4th Edition

    Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison

    Zero Percent (2011) - IMDb

    The Mont Pelerin Society

    Freedom Fest

    48 min
  • Robert Breedlove—The Future of Freedom and Why Bitcoin Matters

    "The way I see this is we've got one real shot at saving the soul of humanity, and that is fixing the money to fix the world,"—Robert Breedlove

    Is Bitcoin zero?

    Or is Bitcoin the next global reserve asset?

    To my guest today, Bitcoin is fundamentally a humanitarian movement, exposing the greatest con in human history, which is central banking, which is one of our favorite themes.

    Robert Breedlove is a freedom maximalist, ex-hedge fund manager, and philosopher in the Bitcoin space. By learning about the connection between honest money, entrepreneurship, and civilization, we are renewing hope for the future of humanity. To this end, Robert's mission is to restore freedom, truth, and virtue in our world by tenaciously asking the question: "What is Money?"

    On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Robert joins me to share why he started joining with guests on his podcast, "What is Money?" to blaze new trails and break new ground in the discussion of money. 

    Listen in as Robert discusses how Bitcoin preserves the relationship between owner and assets, empowering options humans have never before had for more prosperity.

    Key Takeaways

    Why Bitcoin is the solution to centralized banking

    Rob shares his definition of 'What is Money'

    How launching the podcast with Michael Sailor as the first guest was the key to its success

    Why Rob thinks the 'spectator sport' of podcasting in the digital age is helping us rediscover the importance of thinking out loud

    Why Rob believes we must abolish taxation for the world to work in a sustainable way

    How taxpayer money is being channeled into funding 'wokeism" via technology

    Why the middle class is 'the meat of the economic host that the state parasitizes'

    How the government steals from taxpayers via inflation

    Robert shares why there are so many theories and misconceptions about Bitcoin

    Why Bitcoin is different from other crypto assets and gold

    Why the physicality of gold leads to the manipulation of the price by the paper markets

    Why a central bank created cryptocurrency could lead to a social credit scoring system here in the US

    Connect with Rober Breedlove

     The "What is Money?" Show

    Robert on LinkedIn

    Connect with Addison Wiggin

    Consilience Financial

    Be sure to follow The Wiggin Sessions on your socials. You can find me on—

    Facebook @thewigginsessions

    Instagram @thewigginsessions

    Twitter @WigginSessions

    Resources

    Share the Wiggin Sessions on Apple Podcasts

    The Number Zero and Bitcoin: Robert Breedlove

    “The Future of Money is Decentralized” w/ Saifedean Ammous - EP 47 The Wiggin Sessions

    Why "The Long Emergency" Persists w/ James Howard Kunstler - EP 62 The Wiggin Sessions

    Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

    The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by  Saifedean Ammous

    Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig Von Mises

    52 min
  • Mark Skousen—Forecasts, Strategies, and FreedomFest 2023

    "We're still being challenged by the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020 pandemic, and we have the Russia and Ukrainian war. What's going to be next nuclear war? Some pretty shocking things are happening that will keep us all busy,"-Mark Skousen

    What do the current supply chain issues have to do with the current inflation rates?

    And are the supply chain issues currently resolving themselves?

    Mark Skousen (Ph.D., economics, George Washington University) was recently named one of the top 20 living economists in the world (www.superscholar.org ). In 2014, he was appointed a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University in California. Since 1980, he has been editor-in-chief of Forecasts & Strategies, a popular award-winning investment newsletter. He's also the author of several books, including the highly referenced, The Making of Modern Economics - 4th Edition. He is the producer of Freedom Fest, "the world's largest gathering of free minds," which meets every July.

    On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Mark joins me to discuss the impact of supply chain issues on the current economy and how the free market is finding solutions to supply chain shortages.

    Mark shares the type of inflation he believes is on its way down, his prediction of FED panic and what will happen to the economy in 2023, and the stories that led him to update his book, The Making of Modern Economics.

    Listen in as Mark shares how his work with Hudson Link teaching colleges courses at Sing Sing Correctional Facility is changing lives and why we need groups like Freedom Fest to stay in existence now more than ever.

    Key Takeaways

    How the difference between measuring the Gross Output (GO) and the GDP effects the measurement of the economy

    What the supply chain issues have to do with the current inflation rates

    How the market is moving to solve the supply change problems

    Mark shares which type of inflation he feels will soon be on his way down

    Mark shares his personal prediction of FED panic and what will happen to the economy in 2023

    The only tool the FED has to ease the recession

    Why Mark feels Ben Bernanke should have been fired rather than given the Nobel Peace Prize

    How Mark developed the theories that led him to write The Making of Modern Economics

    Mark shares how his work with Hudson Link teaching colleges courses at Sing Sing Correctional Facility helped reduce the recidivism rate

    Mark shares the background behind Freedom Fest

    How much of the idea for Freedom Fest is based on the Mont Pelerin Society

    Why groups like Freedom Fest need to stay in existence to keep socialism from dominating our society

    Connect with Mark Skousen

    Mark Skousen

    Connect with Addison Wiggin

    Consilience Financial

    Be sure to follow The Wiggin Sessions on your socials. You can find me on—

    Facebook @thewigginsessions

    Instagram @thewigginsessions

    Twitter @WigginSessions

    Resources

    Forecasts & Strategies

    Skousen Books

    A Viennese Waltz Down Wall Street

    The Making of Modern Economics - 4th Edition

    Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison

    Zero Percent (2011) - IMDb

    The Mont Pelerin Society

    Freedom Fest

    48 min
  • Misinformation & The Economic Disaster of COVID-19 with Dr. Joseph Mercola

    "When you're a physician, you want to … help people. The reason I transitioned is because I realized early on with my technology background that I would be able to leverage my ability to influence people far more positively for health by using the Internet as a tool," - Dr. Joseph Mercola

    When the COVID-19 pandemic was in full swing, the popular narrative was that the only hope of ever returning to 'normal' was to close businesses, schools, and churches to protect the masses from asymptomatic superspreaders until we could create a vaccine, or we could develop a cure.

    But there were outliers offering other solutions to a desperate world. Eventually, those individuals were quieted through whatever means necessary and would find their names on 'the 'Disinformation Dozen.'

    My guest today was #1 on that list, with CNN and The New York Times joining forces to label him as a superspreader of COVID misinformation. But the reality was he was the most significant voice that was a threat to their narrative.

    Dr. Joseph Mercola is an osteopathic physician with a passion for technology. For over 20 years, he's been ahead of the curve, paving the way for revolutionary changes in the natural health field. Dedicated to helping people improve their lives and health, he's written over 30 scientific studies and reports in medical journals and publications and manages one of the most subscribed to natural health sites worldwide. But he's also a bit of a rebel, often discrediting the conventional medical model thrown at us through his writing, including in his best-selling book, The Truth About COVID-19: Exposing The Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal (2021).

    On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Dr. Mercola joins me to discuss how the trust and credibility he gained over a 25-year career was threatened once he started exposing holes in the COVID narrative and challenging the efficiency (and SAFETY) of the COVID vaccines.

    We discuss how the US Government spent over $100 billion taxpayer-funded dollars to spread propaganda while offering immunity from liability to vaccine companies hell-bent on profitability with little or no regard for safety or human life.

    Listen in to learn what you can do to get the truth to protect yourself and your family in a system designed to create polarization and division.

    Key Takeaways

    Dr. Mercola shares the story of his stalking by CNN and The New York Times to deplatform and discredit him

    The admission by Dr. Francis Boyle, who drafted the Biological Weapons Act COVID-19, was a previously known BIO Weapon

    How the spike proteins used in the RMNA COVID vaccines damage your body and makes you more likely to get sick

    How officials manipulated the data to create mass hysteria by increasing the COVID death rate numbers and reversing the numbers of deaths from vaccine side effects

    The most significant difference between other pandemics, like the Spanish Flu of 1918, and the COVID-19 pandemic

    How social media and major search engines are used to manipulate and propagandize the population

    The 3 biggest tools our government uses to spread mass misinformation

    How major industries like the CDC and the EPA are manipulated to control the narrative

    How social isolation contributes to mass formation and makes people more susceptible to brainwashing

    How spending an hour a day in the sun can help increase your testosterone, melatonin, nitric oxide, and serotonin levels

    How the manipulation of big food and big pharma led to 14 out of 15 people being metabolically inflexible, leading to an increased risk of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

    How the Flexner report led to the replacement of natural remedies for the more profitable pharmaceuticals

    The quest for profits that led to immunity for vaccine companies and more death and harm for patients

    How the US Government used over $100 billion taxpayer-funded dollars to spread propaganda to the American people

    Connect with Dr. Joseph Mercola

    Mercola.com

    Connect with Addison Wiggin

    Consilience Financial

    Be sure to follow The Wiggin Sessions on your socials. You can find me on—

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    Instagram @thewigginsessions

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    Resources

    The Truth About COVID-19: Exposing The Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal

    Dr. Mercola's Censored Library (Substack)

    James Howard Kunstler—Adapting to the Current Crisis Long-Term

    The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet

    The Flexner Report

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    41 min
  • James Howard Kunstler—Adapting to the Current Crisis Long-Term

    "Oil is the primary resource of our abundant industrial, turbo techno economy, and without reliable, predictable, affordable supplies of it, we're going to be in a lot of trouble. And that's exactly where we are now." - James Kunstler

    Some mitigators want to find workarounds for the problems we are facing in the economy, the energy crisis, and the climate.

    But there are also the early adaptors who believe the only way through these crises is 'to adapt to them by changing our behavior and the way we do things.'

    To survive in the future, we must learn to live differently.

    So, how can we face this course correction head-on?

    James Howard Kunstler is a prolific author, public speaker, blogger, podcaster, and painter. He's the author of Living in the Long Emergency, about the "converging catastrophes of the 21st century." You can hear more of his ideas and insights on his Clusterfuck Nation blog, which has fresh content on Mondays and Fridays, and his monthly podcast, the KunstlerCast.

    On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions James Kunstler joins me to discuss how the increase in population and a broken energy business model led to ​​the current deindustrialization of Western Civilization.

    We discuss the real reason for the auto industry's demise, the weightiest issues in the upcoming midterms, and why we're all living with a persistent anxious hum, that's getting harder to ignore.

    Listen in to understand why the most significant challenge we face is determining how we will adapt so we can continue to inhabit our planet.

    Key Takeaways

    James walks us through the planet's warming through the different periods of the last 2000 years.

    How Germany's decision to go green has tanked their economy and turned them medieval

    How Techno-narcissism fails to understand history or the consequences of its actions

    The capital-intensive reason we must stop doing agribusiness on the current industrial scale

    The real reason the future of the automobile is in danger of demise

    Why identifying how we are going to inhabit the landscape is the critical question we need to answer NOW

    Why early adaptors are the ones who recognize times of change and discover ways to adapt

    Why the disconnect between our leadership's responsibility and what's actually happening causing mass formation psychosis

    How the epic failure of the current administration is giving James hints of the Jacobin phase of the French Revolution

    How the increase in population and a broken energy business model led to ​​the current deindustrialization of Western Civilization

    Which will hold more weight in the upcoming midterms: kitchen table issues or green economy social issues

    How economics is mitigating techno narcissism with the decline of skyscrapers

    Where you can find James' paintings of the human imprint on the traditional landscape

    Connect with James Howard Kunstler

    James Howard Kunstler

    Clusterfuck Nation

    KunstlerCast

    Connect with Addison Wiggin

    Consilience Financial

    Be sure to follow The Wiggin Sessions on your socials. You can find me on—

    Facebook @thewigginsessions

    Instagram @thewigginsessions

    Twitter @WigginSessions

    Resources

    Living in the Long Emergency

    World Made by Hand: A Novel

    The Long Emergency

    Byron King—The Danger in Weaponizing the US Dollar EP48

    The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet

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    46 min
  • Gale Pooley—Why We Live in a World of Superabundance (Not Scarcity)

    For hundreds of years, we have thought of scarcity as an economic principle and assumed that population growth leads to a lack of resources.

    But what happens when you test this theory?

    According to Gale Pooley, when you look at the data, you discover that we actually live in a world of superabundance!

    Gale is Professor of Business Management at Brigham Young University—Hawaii and coauthor of the new book, Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet.

    On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Gale joins me make the distinction between abundance and superabundance and explain why scarcity is a flawed way to measure human capacity.

    Gale discusses why time price is a better way to measure commodities or productivity than money itself and describes how nearly all commodities have fallen in time price by 90% since 1850.

    Listen in to understand why economic growth and resource management are infinite and learn how the theory of superabundance holds up—even during a meltdown in the stock market or period of historic inflation.

    Key Takeaways

    How Gale defines abundance and what differentiates abundance from superabundance

    The bet between Paul Ehrlich and Julian Simon re: resource scarcity

    Gale’s relationships with economics and business professor Julian Simon and tech guru George Gilder

    How Gale uses the concept of time price to factor inflation and economic crises into his research

    Why we see big decreases in the time price of commodities over time (and why it’s a better tool of measurement than money)

    How the theory of superabundance holds up during a meltdown in the stock market or a period of historic inflation

    What makes long-term market trends more important than short-term fluctuations

    How nearly all commodities have fallen in time price by 90% since 1850

    Gale’s idea of adding knowledge to atoms to create infinite abundance

    Why Gale sees the ideology of scarcity as the deadliest virus we suffer from on this planet

    Where the idea of scarcity in economics came from and why population growth actually leads to more abundance

    Connect with Gale Pooley

    Gale on Substack

    Connect with Addison Wiggin

    Consilience Financial

    Be sure to follow The Wiggin Sessions on your socials. You can find me on—

    Facebook @thewigginsessions

    Instagram @thewigginsessions

    Twitter @WigginSessions

    Resources

    5 Minute Forecast

    Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet by Gale Pooley and Marian L. Tupy

    Julian Simon

    ‘The Simon Abundance Index: A New Way to Measure Availability of Resources’ by Gale Pooley and Marian L. Tupy

    Cato Institute

    George Gilder on The Wiggin Sessions EP011

    George Gilder on The Wiggin Sessions EP018

    Gilder’s Daily Prophecy

    World Bank Commodity Markets

    Paul Ehrlich

    Agora Financial

    Jimmy Soni on The Wiggin Sessions EP055

    Jordan Peterson

    Daily Stoic Email Newsletter

    Books by George Gilder

    54 min
  • Mark Rosanno—What the Nord Stream Sabotage Means for Global Energy Markets

    Natural gas is obviously an important component to heating homes in Germany and throughout Europe this winter. But on September 26, 2022, the Russian Nord Stream pipeline was sabotaged.

    So, what happened, exactly? And how will the Nord Stream disruption impact energy markets around the world?

    Mark Rosanno is a financial industry veteran with expertise in global financial markets and the supply chain. He is also Founder and CEO of C6 Capital Holdings, a firm that provides investment and consulting services with a focus on global product flows.

    On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Mark joins me to discuss what the Nord Stream sabotage means for Europe as the frigid winter months set in and explain why the US can’t replace the LNG capacity lost by the Russian pipelines.

    Mark describes why energy prices in the US are likely to rise in the coming months and how the Jones Act of 1920 hinders energy flow in America today.

    Listen in for insight around the problem with green energy policy and learn how to turn the approaching crisis into opportunity by investing in energy markets.

    Key Takeaways

    The sabotage of the Russian Nord Stream pipeline that supplies Europe with natural gas and who might be responsible for the attack

    What the Nord Stream sabotage means for Europe as the frigid winter months set in

    The process of shipping and storing liquid natural gas and why the US can’t replace the capacity lost by the Nord Stream pipelines

    How the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines might impact Americans

    Why energy prices in the US are likely to remain elevated in the coming months

    Why Senator Manchin’s Mountain Valley Pipeline deal was stripped from the climate bill

    How green energy policy is disconnected from the practicalities of providing a safe, effective energy supply

    Why the Jones Act was passed in 1920 and how it affects energy flow in the US today

    Why Mark predicts rolling brownouts should we experience a massive cold spell this winter

    Mark’s advice for investors on putting money in LNG facilities, tankers, E&P producers and pipelines

    How Mark thinks about the current challenges with hydroelectric power (e.g.: Lake Mead)

    Connect with Mark Rosanno

    Primary Vision Network on YouTube

    Mark on Twitter

    Email [email protected]

    Connect with Addison Wiggin

    Consilience Financial

    Be sure to follow The Wiggin Sessions on your socials. You can find me on—

    Facebook @thewigginsessions

    Instagram @thewigginsessions

    Twitter @WigginSessions

    Resources

    5 Minute Forecast

    Mark’s Free Energy Report

    Nord Stream Attack

    Mark on The Wiggin Sessions EP057

    The Jones Act

    Kinder Morgan

    Henry Hub

    Senator Manchin’s Mountain Valley Pass Deal

    COP26

    Cheniere

    New Fortress Energy

    Golar LNG

    Southwestern Energy

    Range Resources

    NVIDIA

    Hydropower on Lake Mead

    50 min

About The Wiggin Sessions

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More than ever before, there’s a pronounced disconnect between the economy and the stock market and it’s growing worse. The new normal is an economy that is fundamentally broken--one that can’t be fixed by an election, a vaccine, or a social movement.