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Peak Prosperity

Almost Nobody Understands How Bad It’s Going to Get

Peak Prosperity

Chris Martenson

Business, Government, Investing

4.7591 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The situation in the Middle East just got a lot worse yesterday and last night. Yes, worse! And even if hostilities stopped right now, there’s going to be a world of hurt coming economically.

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0:16.6

The situation in the Middle East just got a lot worse yesterday and last night,

0:27.2

and even if hostility stopped right now, there's going to be a world of hurt coming economically.

0:55.2

Hello, everyone. I am Dr. Chris Martinson of Peak Prosperity. And I'm back. If you remember me from my COVID coverage, I did daily coverage. I've been doing daily coverage of this Iran war back at Peak Prosperity, mostly for my subscribers. But now I'm going to have to come out in public a little bit and start talking about some things. Why? Because they're not being talked about. It's almost identical to COVID when they weren't talking about the real things. So let's talk about the real things. You and me, let's do this

0:59.1

together. This is a special alert. I give out alerts very, very carefully. I'll define that in a

1:03.9

minute. But nobody seems to understand out there in the public commentosphere that I see on Fox News

1:10.5

or CNBC or anywhere else mainstream.

1:12.8

Certainly not in the Trump administration.

1:14.4

I'm not even seeing U.S.

1:15.5

Congressman, senators, talking about any of this.

1:18.7

It's just how bad things are going to get.

1:22.5

And I'm going to make that case here.

1:24.1

Let's start with this, though.

1:25.5

Woke up this morning to this tweet from Trump, which he put out on April 7th.

1:31.3

He said, quote, a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.

1:42.8

However, now that we have complete and total regime change,

1:46.1

we do, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something

1:51.6

revolutionarily wonderful can happen. Who knows? Wink, wink, anybody there if you're thinking,

1:57.4

you see what he's trying to do here. Trump is trying to communicate to people inside of Iran that if they don't overthrow

2:04.5

their government by 8 o'clock tonight, their civilization is going to die.

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