Dave Collum’s 2016 Year In Review – “And Then Things Got Really Weird…”

Submitted by Dave Collum via PeakProsperity,
A downloadable pdf of the full article is available here, for those who prefer to do their power-reading offline.
Background: The Author
‘The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.’ ~William Goldman, novelist
I never would have believed it – not in a million years – but it happened: the Cubs won the World Series, and The Donald is our new president. Every December, I write a Year in Review1 that’s first posted on Chris Martenson’s & Adam Taggart’s website Peak Prosperity2 and later at Zero Hedge.3 What started as a few thoughts posted to a handful of wingnuts on Doug Noland’s Prudent Bear message board has mutated into a detailed account of the year’s events. Why write this beast? For me, it puts the seemingly disconnected events that pass through my consciousness, soon to be lost forever, into a more organized and durable form. Somebody said I should write a book. I just did. In a nutshell, this is a story of human follies and bizarre events. There are always plenty of those. Let others tell the feel-good stories.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Dec 23, 2016.