Geopolitics and Empire is joined by professor of organic chemistry, Dr. Dave Collum, who teaches at Cornell.

Dr. Collum is well known outside of his profession for his thoughts on everything from the economy and investing to politics and the meaning of life.

He produces a very popular annual year in review and is featured on many media outlets.

Dr. Collum, how is 2021 and the new abnormal treating you?

As to be expected, I guess is a good answer.

It's still rough.

Still rough.

All right.

Yeah, same here for me.

I wanted to get your big picture view of what's going on in the economy, politics, and the culture as well.

I feel we're witnessing a collapse of not just the economy, but a breakdown in society and culture

and the disintegration of democracy and our political systems. And since you speak a lot about

the economy, I guess we could start there. I think you've been bearish on the economy

since like forever and with good reason because everything seems to be manipulated. The Fed,

Wall Street, precious metals and so on. Everything seems to be in the bubble. Money printing has

gone full Zimbabwe. I've got my Zimbabwe note here. And I'm wondering if someday the U.S.

dollar will get to, you know, we'll get a million dollar U.S. note or even perhaps a trillion

dollar U.S. note. But John Rubino from Dollar Collapse, who's been a frequent guest on this

podcast recently posted a great article saying that we're in the

middle of a worldwide sovereign debt bubble collapse that no one alive today has witnessed and that

hasn't happened in the century so kind of you know where are we we're in the eye I have the storm

you know what's going on with the economy today yeah I'm not sure I agree with John 100% on the

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