You can subscribe or you can go to the essential book page on this site and start with “The Long Emergency” Then sahshay over to some Richard Heinberg. Or wander off site and read some Paul Erhlich, Urban Survival, Half Past Human, Survival Blog etc. etc.
Or better yet pull up a chair and grab a beverage of choice and watch it unfold on the MSM.
V
CRAP! I can’t take it any longer! After watching the CC last summer, I enrolled for 3 months. It was totally worth it and I was contributing to a great cause. I’m headed back over to the enrolled side . . .
Welcome back Mary Ellen!
Be sure to check out Chris’ latest Insider post about the topic discussed above, but don’t stop there! The last couple of months have featured some fantastic Martenson Reports and Insider blog posts. And a lot of the stuff on the Insider is still just as valid today as when it was written.
My advice to anyone signing up for enrolled membership: Take the time to get your money’s worth by going back and reading all the great “paid content” from the last few months. It’s a lot of reading and will take some time, but it’s well worth it.
Also, don’t just read Chris’ writing alone. In the Insider posts in particular, I strongly recommend reading all the comments in addition to the main article. Two reasons: First, the enrolled member community tends to be more serious about this stuff. No offense to the free community - it’s just that those of us who really dig into this stuff tend to have our “substantive discussions” over in the paid area because everyone there is pretty serious about the subject matter. The result is far fewer newbie questions and a lot more substantive posts. Second (more important) reason is Chris’ participation. For the most part, the comments under the articles and the forum posts are just for us in the reader community. Chris very seldom comments himself in the free forums or in comment threads like this one unless he really has something to say. But over in the enrolled area, if someone asks a question that wasn’t covered in the original article, Chris often gets involved in the discussion himself, often posting graphs, charts, etc. It’s a night and day difference, IMHO.
Anyway, welcome back and glad to have you again.
Erik
Chris & this website are what pushed me into stocking up on idems plus buying Gold & Silver. Look how this has helped right now. The last few days have really been worth some of the ideas I have seen. Nice place to hang out LOL.
I echo Erik T’s comments. The Insider forum is my go-to place for keeping up with the unfolding disaster, otherwise known as our economy. I don’t comment over there much because the people who do post there are ahead of me in their understanding and sophistication of economic issues and markets (I flatter myself in thinking that I’m catching up). I don’t have a whole lot of time for reading. So the paid area helps me focus on the important discussions and to avoid others that may be interesting, but not necessary.
Doug
I understand how you feel… I wish I had something substantive to add to discussions as well, but for some reason the subject of engineering or software development never comes up 
Anyway, it’s good education for me too, and the posts are always making plenty of sense to me. It’s quite the opposite of any other site/school/workplace I’ve been to…
Samuel
Apart from the awesome info/discussions over on the subscriber side, I must say that my subscription has more or less paid for itself – the steps I’ve taken thanks to CM and all the other good folks have saved me and my family much more money than the sub costs.
Exactly as billed. The parts I missed the most when I was an Outsider were Dr. M’s comments and answers to questions. Come on, Romans12.2, JUMP! It’s totally worth it.
Wow, this seems to have turned into an financial advice site, where you can find out how to make the most money from making the right bets. Just like the big boys.
Chris rarely joins in on these forum discussions, unfortunately (I don’t live in the US and so many of the paid for articles are of limited use to me, so I’m not an enrolled member), but I’d sure like to know why he wants to preserve wealth and why quadrupling wealth (given that gold is four times its value when he started advising people to by it) is a good thing,especially through gambling (with more to come, apparently).
With his spot on analyses of our PREDICAMENT, I would have thought he’d be concentrating on adaptation strategies, by now, instead of trying to make more hay, while the sun shines. Indeed, I thought that was his stated direction, at the start of the year. I’m still waiting for the change.
Mary Ellen…I’m convinced. Today is my 16th wedding anniversary, and since my husband only bought me gold coins
and not any jewelry…
I’m gonna treat myself to some insider knowledge. I’m riding in the RV right now on my way up to look at farmland for our plan B…so I’ll have to wait until Sunday.
I just hope the world does not end before then
Huh? So, trying to keep what you have by buying Gold is BAD?
sofistek…I suggest you try a one month subscription, it would probably change your perception re what Chris is about, and answer some of your questions.
At some point you do have to turn in your gold hoard for things that are of a productive value … land, water, off-grid energy devices, building a sustainable local community. It seems like now is a good time before we are past the point of collapse. I would like to know where these communities are, if any. Are they open and cooperative or closed and secretive?
Economic and financial issues are an important part of the challenges we face, and given the world we live in being informed and at least somewhat knowledgeable on the subject will likely be critical to adapting to upcoming changes. In the future this will likely become less critical as economies and people’s lives simplify and become more local… but in the meantime it’s important to most of us. In my mind it’s like the first step to successful adaptation before you can begin the transition of monetary wealth into tangible and productive assets and endeavors that promote self-sufficiency. I myself wish to establish a residence and lifestyle that is more self-sufficient and resilient, but I’m not in a position now where I can take the biggest of those steps yet. So in the meantime I work to educate myself on how to best preserve (and if possible, grow) my savings for the time when my family is able to transition most of our monetary wealth (cash, 401k, and PM’s) into a form more suitable for long-term sustainable living. And regarding quadrupling wealth via gold, that’s a partial misconception. The dollar value of gold may have increased four-fold, but adjusted for real inflation one’s true measure of wealth (what can that gold buy now compared to then) is substantially less than that. Moving into gold is more about preserving purchasing power than increasing relative wealth, though realizing the latter through gold is sometimes possible and is a great bonus if you’re so lucky.
I’m just guessing here, but it seems to me that Chris tends to focus heavily on the economic and financial side because it appears to be one of his prime areas of expertise and experience. His competitive advantage, as it were. But he covers other adaptation strategies too; one of the most popular Insider Forum threads is one that Chris authored describing his family’s ongoing experiences and lessons in creating a more resilient homestead and lifestyle. Definitely worth reading and probably right up your alley.
https://peakprosperity.com/forum/making-our-lives-more-resilient-martenson-family-chronicles/32298
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[/quote] Over on the subscriber side, Dr. M has been posting all sorts of info about what he and his family are doing to adapt.
So let me get this straight. You think he can’t focus on multiple tasks at the same time? And it’s wrong to make hay while the son shines? So should he purposely make foolish investment and financial decisions so there’s no hint of the appearance of even the slightest materialistic tendencies?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A
Quite frankly, it’s his site and if he wants to discuss the environmental plight of the blue nosed wood sniffer, that’s his prerogative.
Funny, I guess we all have our own definitions of greed.
I would have said that all the self-righteous, entitled, whining crybabies around this site who make specious arguments for not being paid enrolled members such as “but I don’t live in the United States” are the greedy ones, just for having the sheer audacity to first come and collect all the FREE content they possibly can, then to whine and complain about how part of what Chris does involves looking out for the financial interests of his family.
sofistek, if you want to understand greed, look in the mirror. You’re a regular reader of these forums, a benefactor of the Crash Course, and yet another whiner who’s too cheap to support Chris and his work with a paid enrolled membership. I don’t live in the United States either and I find nothing about the enrolled member content specific to U.S. residents, so I reject your excuse for the specious drivel it really is. If you want to be greedy and TAKE TAKE TAKE while giving nothing in return, that’s fine. Chris enjoys helping people and doesn’t mind your shameless greed. But for crying out loud, quit whining about it. You come across like a two year old and your entitled, self-righteous attitude along with your presumptuousness to criticize Chris when you don’t even pay your way for being here is offensive. In short, put up or shut up. Grow up comes to mind as well.
Erik
Come on Erik, tell us what you really are thinking. 
Greg,
I considered doing that, but it would have offended Chris. He’s big on civility even when people don’t deserve it.
Best,
Erik
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Come on Erik, tell us what you really are thinking.
[/quote]What no d-word?