By David B. Collum

Every December, I write a Year in Review or, as my wife calls it, my Urine Review. It has found a home at Chris Martenson’s website PeakProsperity.com with a secondary posting at Zerohedge, whose rabid followers crashed the server last year by clicking the crap out of it. What started years ago as a simple summary intended for a couple dozen wingnuts morphed over time into a much more detailed account that accrued upward of 100,000 clicks last year.

Owing to a complete lack of street cred, I’ve got to throw my elevator resume at you right here, right now. I’ve been quoted in the Wall Street Journal on the Flash Crash (no knowledge needed) and been interviewed by Lauren Lyster on Capital Accounts (Russia Today), Chris Martenson (Peak Prosperity), and James Howard Kunstler (Kunstlercast). I found my way into the Guardian this year commenting on the 2016 presidential race and The Macro Tourist Hour on BTFDtv.com just to rant. (I’m still waiting for Cosmopolitan to ask for comments about beauty products.) As this review is being uploaded, I am scheduled to do an interview with Erin Ade on Boom Bust (Russia Today), which should be uploaded concurrently on YouTube. This fall a bunch of Cornell undergraduates invited me to be a “distinguished lecturer” on economics not chemistry. Apparently, they don’t follow Matt Yglesias on Twitter. With that said, a gallant defense of my honor came by e-mail:

“I can think of no one better than you, Dave, to fill the void of an increasingly undistinguished profession of economists. They have excellent judgment at Cornell.”
~Stephen Roach, Yale and former executive director at Morgan Stanley

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