Survive & Thrive in the Local Future: Buy Gold? (1 of 10) Nicole Foss & Aaron Wissner | Local Future @LocalFuture
Survive & Thrive in the Local Future: Buy Gold? (1 of 10) Nicole Foss & Aaron Wissner | Local Future  @LocalFuture
Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 15 minutes ago
If you were given $1,000; what would you invest it in? Buy gold? silver? oil? real estate? What to buy now? Something? Stocks? Bonds? What? Cash?

In part 1 of 10 of a 180 minute discussion, Aaron Wissner and Nicole Foss delve all the way into history, science, economics, psychology, and the future to try to figure out the direction and possibilities of the future.

In this first free 17-minutes, Aaron and Nicole discuss "investing" in markets, commodities, gold, getting out of debt, oil prices, peak oil,

Aaron also talked with Nicole 17-days earlier, which is available in full here:

youtu.be/yjbw4LeZBBw

"Nicole Foss answers Aaron Wissner's questions about seeing it from a distance, the "Big Unraveling" that the world is going through right now, prospects for the near future, as well as the possibilities for the Local Future beyond.

"A key point is that, without knowing what all could happen in the world of finance, it is very difficult to predict timing of things. Nicole has been vocal about the coming unraveling for many years, but without knowing the timing, sounding the alarm is at best planting seeds in many, seeds that may be starting to grow."

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About Nicole Foss

Nicole M. Foss is co-editor of The Automatic Earth, where she writes under the name Stoneleigh. She and her writing partner have been chronicling and interpreting the on-going credit crunch as the most pressing aspect of our current multi-faceted predicament. The site integrates finance, energy, environment, psychology, population and real politik in order to explain why we find ourselves in a state of crisis and what we can do about it. Prior to the establishment of TAE, she was previously editor of The Oil Drum Canada, where she wrote on peak oil and finance.

Foss runs the Agri-Energy Producers' Association of Ontario, where she has focused on farm-based biogas projects and grid connections for renewable energy. While living in the UK she was a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, where she specialized in nuclear safety in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and conducted research into electricity policy at the EU level.

Her academic qualifications include a BSc in biology from Carleton University in Canada (where she focused primarily on neuroscience and psychology), a post-graduate diploma in air and water pollution control, the common professional examination in law and an LLM in international law in development from the University of Warwick in the UK. She was granted the University Medal for the top science graduate in 1988 and the law school prize for the top law school graduate in 1997.

Bio snipped from Happen Films: "Economist Nicole Foss is co-editor of The Automatic Earth. Here she provides easy-to-understand answers in response to questions on peak oil, financial crisis, energy descent, resilience, community, and simple living."

Very nice looking and sounding interview with Nicole from about five years ago, again via Happen Films:

youtube.com/watch?v=AdNvmIfyQPY

Other search results on YouTube -- notice a number of the most recent results are just reposts of earlier recordings:

youtube.com/results?search_query=%22nicole+foss%22+-tug+-shop+-piphany+-%22dominic+green%22&sp=CAI%253D

theautomaticearth.com/tag/nicole-foss
theautomaticearth.com/author/stoneleigh

About Aaron Wissner

Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help people, and humans as a whole, to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can survive and thrive, no matter what the future holds.

facebook.com/aaron.wissner.9
youtube.com/user/newculture
lifeishnowish.blogspot.com

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