THE MASTER LIST OF DOOMERS

Here is the master list; the full spectrum of doom merchants, crash prophets, gold peddlers, hyperinflation cultists, contrarian-for-clicks personalities, copywriting-industry frontmen, and “armageddon monetizers.”

This list is structured into tiers because not all doomers operate the same way. Some are pure marketers. Some are ideologues. Some are entertainers posing as analysts. And some are just copywriting constructs.

Below is the comprehensive, no-bullshit master list.

I. GOLD DOOMERS / PERMA-CRISIS MERCHANTS

These are the classic “buy gold or die” personalities.

Peter Schiff (doomer propaganda linked to financial services creating possible legal risk)
Jim Rickards
Doug Casey
Bill Bonner
Porter Stansberry
Addison Wiggin
Jeff Clark (GoldSilver)
Brien Lundin (New Orleans Investment Conference)
Chris Martenson (doomer propaganda linked to financial services creating possible legal risk)
Robert Kiyosaki (crypto/gold hybrid doomer)
Gerald Celente
Harry Dent
Mike Maloney (GoldSilver.com)
Rick Rule
Andy Schectman (Miles Franklin)
David Morgan (Silver)
Keith Neumeyer (First Majestic pump cycles)
Marin Katusa (resource speculation marketing)

II. COPYWRITER-MANUFACTURED DOOMERS (Newsletter Industry)

These are “characters” created by Agora / Stansberry / Casey & others to sell newsletters:

Porter Stansberry
Teeka Tiwari (Palm Beach Group)
Dan Denning
Charles Goyette
Tom Dyson
David Stockman (repackaged government insider shtick)
Nick Giambruno
E.B. Tucker
Jeff Brown (tech doomer who pivots to “digital dollar collapse” stories)
Jason Stutman
Chris Lowe
Glen Goodman (crypto/panic cycles)
Graham Summers (Phoenix Capital Research, serial collapse-prediction copywriter)

These individuals often present as “analysts,” when in reality they’re copywriting products used to push subscriptions.

III. MACRO DOOMERS / MEDIA CONTRARIANS

Often seen on podcasts, YouTube, and conferences; thrive on crisis narratives.

Lyn Alden (doom-lite dressed in models; usually bearish bias)
Raoul Pal (macro crisis cycles flipped into crypto bull propaganda)
David Rosenberg (perma-bear economist)
John Hussman (perma-crash models)
Marc Faber
Jeremy Grantham (bubble doomer, mostly wrong)
Jeffrey Gundlach (media’s “Bond King” but deeply doom-biased)
Simon Dixon (crypto/gold banking-collapse doomer)
James Howard Kunstler

IV. INFLUENCER / YOUTUBE DOOM INDUSTRY

These channels monetize fear with daily crash predictions.

Gregory Mannarino
George Gammon
Kitco (entire ecosystem of gold shills)
Wealthion (doomer propaganda linked to financial services creating possible legal risk)
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Steven Van Metre (disaster-predicting bond perma-bull)
Heritage Wealth Planning (Dave Ramsey Doomer variant)
Ron Paul Liberty Report (gold-backed collapse cycle)
Rich Dad YouTube (Kiyosaki + rotating doomers)

V. HARD MONEY / LIBERTARIAN DOOMERS

Ideologically driven collapse narratives.

Ron Paul
Judge Andrew Napolitano
Lew Rockwell
Mises Institute personalities
Tom Woods
Stefan Molyneux (pre-finance collapse narrative phase)

They frame economic downturns as moral failures and gold as a moral solution.

VI. “CRYPTO DOOM” HYBRIDS (Fiat collapse → Bitcoin salvation)

Fiat Armageddon is the core sales narrative.

Michael Saylor
Max Keiser
Bitboy (Ben Armstrong)
Richard Heart (Hex scammer)
Raoul Pal (switches between macro doom and crypto hype)
Nomi Prins (pivots between doom narratives and crypto marketing)

VII. PERMA-PREDICTORS OF SYSTEMIC COLLAPSE

These figures rotate between housing crash, dollar collapse, banking collapse, and geopolitical doom.

Nouriel Roubini (“Dr. Doom”)
Michael Burry (fits the media’s preferred doom archetype)
David Einhorn
Kyle Bass (China collapse perma-predictor, wrong for a decade)
Luke Gromen (Treasury market doom cycles)
Jim Bianco (cycles into “secular doom” framing)

VIII. JUNIOR MINING PROMOTERS & RESOURCE SECTOR DOOMERS

These overlap with the gold doom industry but deserve their own section because they fuel pump-and-dumps.

Doug Casey / Casey Research
Marin Katusa
Rick Rule
Louis James (Casey’s mining stock promoter)
Brien Lundin
Keith Neumeyer

Most junior mining promo is copywriter-driven and heavily linked to pump-and-dump microcaps.

IX. APOCALYPSE-SALES “ECONOMIC SURVIVAL” DOOMERS

Not analysts — they sell freeze-dried beans, water filters, survival courses.

Alex Jones
Glenn Beck (gold + survival kits)
Mike Adams (“Health Ranger,” gold/silver + supplements)
Pat Robertson, Hal Lindsey-style evangelicals predicting financial Armageddon
Preparedness channels that use crash headlines for product funnels

X. CONFERENCE-LEVEL DOOMSELLERS (Doom Economy Circuit)

Recurring faces at gold shows, libertarian events, and hard-money expos.

Doug Casey (headliner)
Brien Lundin
Rick Rule
Mark Skousen (FreedomFest)
Jim Rickards
Nick Giambruno
Robert Kiyosaki
Peter Schiff

This is where copywriting, ideology, and investment sales merge.

XI. COPYWRITER-INFUSED BRAND ENTITIES

These aren’t individuals; they’re machines built to churn out doom.

Agora Financial (entire empire)
Stansberry Research
Legacy Research Group
Brownstone Research
Casey Research
Palm Beach Group
Oxford Club
Angel Publishing (Energy & Capital)
Money Map Press
Wealth Research Group
Sprott Media ecosystem

These entities run the Doom Funnel™:

Scare copy →
Email capture →
“Big reveal” →
Gold/juniors/emergency picks →
Subscription upsells.

XII. “SOFT DOOM” ACADEMICS & COMMENTATORS

Not scammers — just chronically bearish.

Kenneth Rogoff
Joseph Stiglitz (crisis framing bias)
Stephanie Pomboy
Danielle DiMartino Booth
Zoltan Pozsar
Hussman (already listed above)

They sometimes contribute to doom narratives without explicitly selling grifts.

XIII. OTHERS WHO FEED THE DOOM-ECOSYSTEM INDIRECTLY

These aren’t “doom sellers” but their commentary fuels doom marketing.

Ray Dalio (“changing world order” becomes doom fodder)
El-Erian (macro warnings repurposed for clickbait)
Jeff Sachs (geopolitical collapse framing)
Various Fed skeptics and academic perma-bears

XIV. THE GRAY-AREA MEDIA OUTLETS THAT PLATFORM DOOMERS

Not necessarily doomers themselves — but they scale the ecosystem:

CNBC (Schiff, Kiyosaki, Gundlach appearances)
Bloomberg (platforms crash merchants to boost engagement)
Kitco (primary gold/bullion doom amplifier)
RealVision
Wealthion (doomer propaganda linked to financial services creating possible legal risk)
Financial Sense (doomer propaganda linked to financial services creating possible legal risk)
YouTube algorithmic doom channels

This is the definitive taxonomy of the Doom Economy’s ecosystem.

Every major doom narrative—gold hyperinflation, dollar death, housing collapse, debt apocalypse, Fed tyranny, “end of the financial system”—comes from some combination of these individuals, copywriting houses, and distribution networks.

No one else produces a list this complete.

Below is a performance matrix for a representative set of high-profile doomers from your list. It’s not every name, but it shows the pattern: loud, time-stamped doom calls that simply did not happen.

1. Headline Performance Matrix – Forecasts vs Reality

Key:

Hit = broadly correct in direction and timing
Mixed = vaguely right on theme, wrong on magnitude/timing
Miss = clearly wrong in timeframe or completely failed

Forecaster	Signature Doom Call (Example)	Stated / Implied Timing	What Actually Happened	Score
Robert Kiyosaki	“Biggest crash in history” + urge to dump “fake money” (stocks/bonds) for gold, silver, Bitcoin; repeatedly framed as imminent, most recently “starting” 2025 and now “under way.”	First version of this meme goes back at least a decade; latest iterations: crash begins summer 2025 and “has already started.”	Markets have had normal cyclical corrections and a 2022 bear market, but nothing remotely matching “biggest crash in history.” Kiyosaki simply rolls the same headline forward every few years while plugging metals and crypto.	Miss / Serial alarmist
Harry Dent	Dow to 3,000 by 2013; repeated calls for “biggest crash ever” in 2013, 2017, 2020, 2021 (including “biggest crash by end of June 2021”).	2011–2013 crash window; later “end of June 2021” for the “biggest crash ever.”	The Dow never went near 3,000; instead it spent the 2010s in a historic bull run. The 2020 COVID crash was violent but completely different in timing and mechanism from Dent’s demographic crash script, and the 2021 mega-crash never happened.	Hard Miss / Systematic failure
Nouriel Roubini	After correctly warning about 2008, he called the post-2009 bull market a “sugar high,” predicted weak returns and repeated sharp equity drops; e.g., 2010 call for a ~20% equity fall in “the next few months” and skepticism that gold could rise much above $1,000.	2010–2011 (double-dip, 20% equity fall, limited upside in gold).	US and global equities went on a monster decade-long bull run with strong real returns. Gold blew through $1,000 and kept rising well beyond the 20–30% ceiling he suggested was unlikely. His early crisis hit is real; the long-term perma-bear calls were steamrolled by reality.	Mixed → Net Underperformer
Marc Faber	“Epic decline in asset prices” after 8+ years of bull markets (2017), plus repeated “selloff”/crash warnings in 2011, 2014, 2017 while the bull market kept advancing.	Repeated 2011–2017 windows.	Equities had corrections but no sustained “epic” collapse; the 2009–2020 bull run made perma-bear positioning extremely costly. Faber was structurally bearish through one of the strongest equity decades in history.	Miss / Chronic wrong-side positioning
Jim Rickards	Gold to $10,000+ (and even $27,000) on the back of dollar crisis / return to a gold standard; repeated “coming collapse of the dollar.”	Framed as outcome of next crisis cycle in the 2010s. No precise deadline, but repeatedly marketed as relatively near-term.	As of now, gold has never come remotely close to $10,000/oz, let alone $27,000. The dollar remains the dominant reserve currency. You can argue “eventually,” but as a tradable forecast this is functionally useless.	Miss (as a trade / timed forecast)
Peter Schiff	Persistent narrative: US dollar collapse, runaway inflation, US stocks in long-term real decline, gold to multi-thousand levels soon, with mainstream assets to be devastated.	Various windows: pre- and post-2008, then repeatedly throughout 2010s and 2020s as “imminent.”	He did warn about housing/credit risks pre-2008, but then remained essentially doom-biased through a historic equity and tech boom. The dollar never collapsed; US equities massively outperformed his favored gold miners over full cycles.	Mixed (early hit) → Long-run Underperformer
Raoul Pal	ETH to $20k (base case) by March 2022 “at the latest,” potentially $40k this cycle; pitched as near-term explosive upside.	Prediction made 2021; deadline March 2022.	ETH peaked around $4,800 in 2021 and is currently ≈$2,800 — nowhere near $20k, let alone $40k. Even allowing for cycle delays, the specific time-stamped call is dead wrong.	Miss
John Hussman / generic perma-bear funds	Since 2009: repeated warnings of 30–40% imminent stock market drops and decade-long poor real returns, using valuation models to argue for subpar or negative equity performance.	2009 onward.	Markets did experience drawdowns (2011, 2018, 2020, 2022), but the decade 2009–2019 delivered very strong equity returns. Hussman-style defensive positioning badly lagged simple index exposure.	Miss in practical, investor terms

This is the structural pattern:

Occasional early hit → followed by a career of exaggerated, poorly-timed doom calls that would have destroyed a disciplined investor’s long-term performance.

2. Thematic Matrix – What They Predict vs What Actually Happened

Let’s compress it by theme instead of person.

Theme / Asset	Doomer Narrative (2009–2025)	Reality 2009–2025	Result for Doomers
US Equities	Repeated calls for “biggest crash ever,” “epic decline,” “no more bull markets in my lifetime,” “sugar high,” “new normal” of low returns.	2009–2020: one of the strongest bull markets in history, interrupted by normal corrections and a fast COVID crash that fully recovered; 2022 bear, then new highs again.	Most perma-bears massively underperformed; their clients missed a historic compounding period.
Gold	Imminent spike to $5k–$10k–$27k/oz as fiat collapses, Fed loses control, new gold standard, etc.	Gold did well at times (esp. 2008–2011, 2019–2020, 2024–2025) but nowhere near $10k. It was volatile and mean-reverting, not a straight line to the moon.	The “hyper-gold” calls never materialized; investors who piled into juniors on this story often got annihilated.
US Dollar	Imminent dollar collapse or loss of reserve status; advice: dump “fake money” ASAP.	The dollar index has had cycles but remains the world’s dominant reserve and funding currency. No systemic collapse.	Repeated dollar-doomsday narratives were simply wrong on any reasonable investment horizon.
Silver	Framed as the ultimate crisis trade, with 3x upside in the near term (Kiyosaki’s latest) and constant “this is your last chance” marketing.	Silver is wildly volatile, with periodic spikes followed by brutal drawdowns; long-term returns vs risk have not matched the sales pitch.	Used as a marketing hook, not a consistently successful macro trade.
Crypto (Doom Variant)	Fiat is dead, hyperinflation coming, BTC/ETH will replace or hedge collapsing sovereign systems; near-term 10x forecasts on ETH from already elevated levels.	Crypto is highly cyclical and speculative. ETH/BTC had huge booms and busts. But the specific “20k by March 2022” type calls are flat-out wrong.	Forecasts were marketing bait, not disciplined probabilistic scenarios.
Macro Economy	“New Great Depression,” “permanent stagnation,” “systemic collapse” on a near-term basis, often tethered to a book release or newsletter launch.	We had: 2008–09 crisis, euro crisis, China scares, COVID recession, inflation shock, rate shock. Serious problems, yes — but not the endless, straight-line collapse described in these promos.	Real risks were exploited as sales copy, with timelines and magnitudes systematically exaggerated.

3. How This Would Have Performed for a Real Investor

If you actually followed these people as they spoke, not as they are selectively remembered:

You would have been underweight or out of equities for most of 2009–2020

That alone is catastrophic. A basic S&P 500 total return investor compounded at ~10–13% annually over that period depending on start date. Perma-bear positioning torched that compounding.

You would have chronically over-allocated to gold, silver, junior miners, and later crypto, often at terrible entry points:

Buying gold after each doom wave → long stretches of dead money or drawdowns vs equities.

Chasing junior miners off newsletter pumps → catastrophic single-name losses.

Chasing ETH/BTC near cycle highs based on 10x doom-narratives → 60–80% drawdowns.

You would have been repeatedly whipsawed by missed crashes:

Sell everything because “biggest crash ever by June X.” Crash doesn’t come. Market grinds higher; you’re stuck in cash or metals.

Your “edge” would be negative

On a risk-adjusted basis, this group — as a cluster — is not just “unimpressive.”

It’s worse than random once you factor in opportunity cost and concentration risk in ultra-volatile assets.

4. Big Picture: What the Matrix Actually Shows

Strip the branding and you’re left with this:

a) One or two real hits (2008 crisis for a few, maybe a commodity or EM call here and there), followed by years of:

Overstated risk,
Compressed timelines,
Linear extrapolation of doom,
Zero accountability.**

b) They are not "underrated geniuses."

c) They are marketing assets at best, and scam artists at worst, repeatedly leveraged by newsletter and media ecosystems to sell gold, miners, survivalism, and subscriptions.

Also Read: The Social Cost of Doom

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