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Peter St. Onge, PhD.
- PhD economist and viral commentator known for his sharp, humorous takes on global economics and freedom.
- Former MBA professor and Fortune 500 marketer, with global experience from Japan to Brazil.
- In-demand keynote speaker on economic collapse, digital currencies, AI, and liberty.
Dr. Peter St Onge — @ProfStOnge online — is being talked about everywhere because he is many things: A dynamic keynote speaker par excellence, Peter St. Onge a former MBA professor and PhD economist, a Fortune-500 corporate marketer in Mexico, Brazil, and Japan, a nightclub manager, and…an ex-bartender.
His corporate experience includes some of the biggest companies in the world in both consumer goods and large-scale infrastructure manufacturing.
His topics and areas of expertise include, but are not limited to: the Economy; Scenario Planning; Future Technologies; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Liberty and Freedom.
He is available for Custom Briefings for executive and CEO Roundtables, looking at trends, opportunities and risks in specific industries. As Peter says “We’re at an inflection point in history, from economy to society to business. Those who see what’s coming can protect themselves. Those who don’t will wonder what just happened.”
At this point, many of you might be asking – who is this guy with the ridiculous shirts whose videos are all over Twitter? Well – Peter St Onge has quickly become wildly popular for his common-sense and humorous explanations of major events impacting the economy, business, our individual rights and freedoms, and what that means.
So whether it’s a conference on investing and strategy, a Bitcoin conference, or a liberty festival, Professor St Onge has become an in-demand keynote speaker and a bona fide online superstar.
In fact, Peter says he’d once been called “The most interesting Economist in the World” although with his classic wry wit, he ventures the person was probably drunk.
Peter has spoken at dozens of conferences and is a frequent guest on national TV including Charles Payne on Fox Business and Jesse Watters on Fox News.
For those of you who follow Peter’s economic and political commentary, you know that he weaves humor and passion into his analysis, and he brings levity, clarity, and call to action to very serious topics at all his talks. Peter will always tailor his message and keynote presentation appropriately for the audience he is speaking to.
Peter speaks near-native French, Spanish, Japanese, and Philadelphian, and is happy to deliver keynotes in those languages as well.
Videos
Recent Videos as of December 2024 – We’ll be updating these a lot:
Speech Topics
1. Is the Western Empire in Decline?
– Are we living the Fall of Rome or the Fourth Turning?
– What’s driving it, how we protect ourselves, and how we turn it around.
2. We are reliving the 1970’s stagflation.
– What it means for business, investors, and innocent bystanders.
– The Fed promises we’ll have a “soft landing”, but history predicts stagnation and inflation that
could last decades. Fortunately, history also tells us how to protect ourselves, even how to
reverse the tide.
3. What happens if the dollar collapses…
– The impact on the economy, jobs and inflation, and America’s trade partners and competitors. –
What will take the dollar’s place — the Yuan, a gold-backed currency, or even Bitcoin?
4. Sovereign debt is eating the world.
– Government spending worldwide is out of control. It’s even threatening the entire banking
system.
– What’s driving it and how we stop it.
5. Protecting yourself in a CBDC world
– Countries around the world are building a surveil-and-control panopticon of CBDC’s, digital id
and social credit. What’s coming next, and how you can protect yourself.
6. The dinosaurs are losing control. Liberty can win.
– Even as governments go mad with power, their ability to control the narrative is plunging. As
bad as things appear, we have a unique but short window to transform the world towards liberty.
7. AI and our Future:
-Will AI take all the jobs, gut existing companies, and tell us what to think? Or will it lead to a golden age of runaway productivity that makes us all Gods? Peter explores the implications of AI for society, investors, and businesses.
All of Peter’s keynote presentations are highly customizable, and he can tailor his talk to suit your group.
Biography
Peter St. Onge is a dynamic and passionate Keynote Speaker, first and foremost. He is also a Ph.D. Economist, former MBA professor, ex-bartender, entrepreneur. Now the rest:
Peter St Onge received his Bachelor of Arts from Canada’s McGill University in Economics and Political Science, then his Master of Arts and Doctorate in Economics from George Mason University. He started his career in strategic marketing at Harris Corporation, covering Latin America.
At age 25 he put his life savings in dot-coms and retired a year later, backpacking around the world for 2 years until the dot-com crash, when he went to work as a bartender in Japan then joined toy giant Takara Corporation in international marketing. He left Takara to pursue the PhD, then worked as an MBA professor at Taiwan’s Feng Chia University before returning to North America to work as an economist at the Montreal Economic Institute, and until just recently (Jan 2025) at The Heritage Foundation, where he was the Mark A. Kolokotrones Fellow in Economic Freedom. He is a fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and the single politician he likes is Ron Paul. To learn more click here.
