Learn Skills to Navigate the Perfect Storm

Guest Chris Martenson, author of the newly released The Crash Course, picks up where he<br /> left off with his prophetic look at the economy.<br /> <br /> The original Crash Course video was released in 2008, followed by the book version in<br /> 2011. Considered ahead of its time, today, we are poised for an economic perfect storm.<br /> We need to prepare ourselves. A big event is coming and the ones with skills to adapt will<br /> succeed.<br /> <br /> Host Robert Kiyosaki and Martenson talk about the 3 E's: Economy, Energy and<br /> Environment. With the 4th "e" being "exponential growth." Our nation is creating more debt;<br /> more fake money. "Money is a marker, a claim. And we are making it faster than ever. But<br /> at some point, it breaks. And it breaks badly."<br /> <br /> "We haven't made any serious plans for how we're going to control our deficit spending or<br /> how we are going to navigate this energy future," Martenson says. "Europe is a continent of<br /> 400 Million people. They are energy poor and they just got into a war with Russia by proxy.<br /> What happens when you starve a continent of 400 million? A huge decline of living<br /> standards, the driving factors being food and energy.<br /> <br /> The reason we aren't creating a real economy is because we aren't producing anything. "To<br /> produce, you have to have energy. Houses, cars, food. Just scratch a little and you'll find<br /> energy. If you want to have an economy, prosperity comes because we have energy."<br /> <br /> Prepare for social unrest. Have a Plan B. "Ask yourself, what do I know how to do?" says<br /> Martenson. The number of people who know how to do things is dwindling." Learn skills.<br /> Grow a garden.