AWARENESS AND ATTENTION ARE OUR STARTING POINTS

We mentioned the great program, PopTech, last week. If you haven’t watched it yet, here’s another excellent presentation from the October 2008 conference. Debt-crisis expert Juan Enriquez diagnoses and prescribes a reasonable 10-point remedy to America’s pressing financial ills.

Juan calls it a “systemic problem“. Please understand what he means. Only if you do, can you be informed and educate your elected officials who you hired to act on your behalf. For all of our sakes, please listen carefully, then follow up at PopTech.

Can’t see it? Get FlashPlayer, or view at PopTech.

Do you have your head around what “our” Federal Reserve Bank, mortgage bankers, financial “experts” and insurance executives have done with derivatives? $531 trillion???

BUT DO YOU KNOW WHAT MONEY REALLY IS AND HOW IT’S CREATED?

This is important.

To continue our metaphor from earlier today, the U.S. debt is the GIANT canary in the economic coal mine.

Most of us scratch our heads when asked the questions, what is money and how is it created. Yet it’s fundamental to our lives. We invest 40 years or more of our lives earning money. We rely on it for multiple times a day, to buy a pack of gum or to charge for our services.

I don’t know Chris Martenson personally, but I like most of what he has done in creating his Crash Course, a free, condensed online version of  his “End of Money” seminar. In 20 sections, 3 to 20 minutes in length, he covers most of the critical elements we need to think about.

He is totally on target by identifying energy as critical to our economic and societal future. I respect, but don’t agree with all of his conclusions regarding energy. More on energy later. But I think he has captured much of the essence of where we are with our money system.

Here’s his two minute introduction.

I recommend viewing the full course. It won’t cost a penny, it’s constructed in digestible bite sizes, and it could help you save your home, retirement, and business.

But please remember that if we see ourselves as separate from the the world, we will experience desire and fear. We are all part of one reality. The common themes we experience can be changed overnight. It is up to us to change them.

WHERE IS THE UNIVERSE MOVING US AND WHAT ARE THE PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR YOU?

If you’ve stuck with us all day, we’re finally ready to discuss the question, Where Is the Universe Moving Us and Our Economy? Next Monday, we’ll start giving some of our big picture projections, and identifying specific opportunities being brought by the changes for you and your organization. And in advance of that, we’ll touch on other opportunities throughout this week.

Until then, be excellent.

Sincerely,

David VanAmburg