Dr. Chris Martenson...
... is the creator of The End of Money economic seminar series, has extensive experience analyzing and communicating financial information, and publishes a weekly newsletter on the economy and finance (located at http://theendofmoney.com).
Dr. Martenson combines a scientist's attention to fact and analysis (PhD, Duke University, Pathology and Toxicology) with a solid understanding of finance and economics (MBA, Cornell, Finance) with strategic thinking (4 years as a management consultant).
He believes that corporate media has done a singularly poor job at providing the context necessary for us to have an informed discussion about economic issues. He believes that DC politicians cannot distinguish between what is urgent and what is merely expedient. He believes that We The People must educate ourselves and start a grassroots campaign, which will be as important as any ever waged, to chart a course back to fiscal and monetary prudence.
He believes that our current economic system has a gigantic and possibly fatal math problem – how can a monetary/economic system that must grow forever exist in a finite world?
His past work has involved the development and oversight of $100M+ budgets, using portfolio decision tools to enhance governance & prioritization efforts, and investigating how neurons work.
He has been published in the scientific journal Nature, consulted to fortune 50 companies, and lectured extensively on economic and financial topics.
He is currently devoted to researching, writing and presenting economic and financial analyses and is currently working on a related book & movie. Some would even say he is obsessed, possibly compulsive, but he prefers to think of himself as passionate. Of all the possible subjects out there, mismanagement of our economic future by our fiscal and monetary authorities has the greatest probability of making our futures quite divergent from our hopes and dreams. It will impact us all.
