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Peak Prosperity

Luke Gromen: The Debt Dilemma and the Fork in the Road

Peak Prosperity

Chris Martenson

Government, Investing, Business

4.7591 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

This is a true banger of a podcast, packed with insights and depth. The conclusion? It’s time to make your portfolio as resilient as your homestead.

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0:00.0

Nothing in this program should be considered investment advice.

0:03.2

It is for educational purposes only.

0:05.3

Please hit pause and read this disclaimer in full.

0:10.7

You know, now, after years of pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up,

0:14.5

like, oh, look, there's mountains there, that's why.

0:17.9

And we're trying to pull up, but, you know, the question, I guess, to continue

0:21.8

the metaphor is, can the airframe handle it? I don't know.

0:26.0

The following is the audio version of a video released at peakprosperity.com.

0:31.5

Visit peakprosperity.com to watch the video and to find other insightful content, such as

0:36.8

articles, discussion forums,

0:38.8

and exclusive subscriber-only content.

0:49.7

Welcome to this episode of Finance You.

0:51.9

I'm your host, Chris Martinson, and today I am genuinely honored to bring you one of the clearest, most courageous voices in macroeconomics today.

1:00.0

Luke Groman, founder and CEO of Forest for the Trees, or FFTT, you can see it in his background there.

1:06.0

And Luke is the analyst who saw the weaponization of the dollar coming years before Russia got kicked out

1:12.6

a swift, who's been relentlessly documenting the U.S. debt spiral. We'll get into that today.

1:17.8

The rise of de-dollarization, so many things coming to a head, and the return of gold as money,

1:24.3

while most of Wall Street was still chanting transitory inflation, our favorite word

1:29.6

transitory.

1:30.5

His weekly research notes are legendary.

1:32.5

They move billions in institutional money.

1:34.2

They make treasury officials sweat, and they've been dead right on the biggest trends

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