I've worked as a Public Administrator,salesman, IT consultant, trainer and developer/manager of pay-as-you-go information services for the State Library of NSW. After the dot.com crash markets attracted my curiosity. Fairly scary aspects of reality were invisible to the mainstream but inevitable, I saw. Primarily, that a major secular shift away from financial assets to commodities and precious metals is underway disguised by what I call "classic late empire credit bubble dynamics"; enabled by financial engineering, marketing and electronic networks. As far as I can still see, peak everything is the real deal and resources and alternate energy the stuff from which futures and fortunes will be built.