Dmitry Orlov on Fast Collapse & Alex Goldmark on Crowdfunding

In Reinventing Collapse, Dmitry Orlov compared the US to where his native Soviet Union was in the mid-1980s–near the edge of imperial collapse. He used to expect five stages of gradual collapse; he explains why the Euro crisis now leads him to believe that industrial civilization will fall apart very rapidly.

Do you want to take your money out of Dow Jones-listed corporations and put it into locally owned start-ups? Sorry–that’s against the law unless you’re a millionaire. Federal rules designed to protect small investors keep us from putting our money where our values are–but new sources of crowdfunding are finding some ways to get around them.

Original audio source (20111031 Equal Time.mp3)