Ready to learn everything you need to know about the economy in less than two hours? The Crash Course is a condensed online version of Chris Martenson's "End of Money" seminar. The first chapters of the Crash Course are already available; additional chapters will be added as quickly as time allows. Watch the Breaking News page to find out when new chapters are posted.
How long will it take? Completed sections are between 3 and 14 minutes in length, meaning that all 20 sections should take about 2.5 hours.
What is it? The Crash Course seeks to provide you with a baseline understanding of the economy so that you can better appreciate the risks that we all face.
You will learn about:
Intro (on this page, below)
Section 1: Three Beliefs (Time: 1:46)
Section 2: The Three "E"s (Time: 1:38)
Section 3: Exponential Growth (Time: 3:07)
Section 4: Compounding is the Problem (Time: 3:06)
Section 5: Growth vs. Prosperity (Time: 3:40)
Section 6: What is Money? (Time: 5:55)
Section 7: Money Creation (Time: 4:19)
Section 8: The Fed - Money Creation (Time: 7:13)
Section 9: A Brief History of US Money (Time: 7:14)
Section 10: Inflation (Time: 11:48)
Section 11: How Much Is A Trillion? (Time: 3:28)
Section 12: Debt (Time: 12:32)
Section 13: A National Failure To Save (Time: 12:06)
Section 14: Assets & Demographics (Time: 13:41)
Section 15: Bubbles (Time: 14:10)
Section 16: Fuzzy Numbers NEW! - August 5 (Time: 15:52)
Section 17: Peak Oil NEW! - August 23 (Time: 17:52)
Section 17 PART B: Energy Budgeting NOTE: This chapter is on the same page as
Part A. You may need to scroll down to see. NEW! - August 28 (Time: 12:15)
The above sections are done, the lower ones are coming
Section 18: Environmental Data Section 19: Future Shock Section 20: What Should I Do...?
The Intro below is separated from the rest of the sections because you'll only need to see it once...it tells you about how The Crash Course came to be.