Unknowingly to myself, my wife, or most my friends...I began a journey down a rabbit hole without realizing how far and how long I would be going. I began by digging into commodity consumption, depletion rates, and the possibility of peak oil. Likewise, I chased ideas for finite resources like fertilizer, metals, etc. I chased currencies, debt, interest rates, productivity, dug into trade deficits, went deeply into the Treasury market, etc. etc. Independently, none of them made sense. I wasn't until I started backing into population growth and demographics that a red thread began to emerge, running through all the different elements I had looked at.