A third period of heightened volatility shouldn’t surprise us.Consider this chart of the SPX (S&P 500) over the past two years: take a look at the relative steepness of each of the red lines (rallies), the duration of each rally (purple lines)…
The idea that everything will be solved if we borrow a couple more trillion and give it away is the dominant paradigm.Here in the decay phase of Imperial Pretensions, The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.&…
Small businesses on the precipice need only one small shove to go over the edge, and there won’t be replacements filling the fast-multiplying empty storefronts.As a generality, the average employee (including financial pundits) has no real experience o…
With these speculative and risk management skills accessible only to the wealthy, no wonder only the wealthy have gained purchasing power in the 21st century.Let’s start with an excerpt from a recent personal account by the insightful energy/systems an…
All we’re doing is waiting for the fake “prosperity” to crumble, and the resulting loss of credibility and legitimacy will follow like night follows day.The citizenry of corrupt regimes ruled by self-serving elites tolerate this oppressive misrule for …
That we fall for the fakes and cons is understandable, given that’s all we have left in the public sphere.What do we mean when we say corporate media is fake? We mean it’s a carefully crafted con, a set of narratives, cherry-picked data and heavily mas…
Even the most distracted, fragmented tribe of the peasantry eventually notices that they’re not in the top 1%, or the top 0.1%.Let’s posit that America will confront a Great Crisis in the next decade. This is the presumption of The Fourth Tur…
This is the fantasy: we can rebuild our entire global industrial society every generation or two forever.”Earthrise” is one of the most influential photographs ever published. Taken on the Apollo 8 mission in late December 1968 by astronaut Bill A…
Since the battle is for the legitimacy of the state, it must be waged at least partially in the open.Speculations by outsiders must give Deep State insiders many opportunities to chuckle, “if only they knew.” We don’t know, of course, and public l…
Convenience is the sales pitch, but the real goal is control in service of maximizing profits and extending state power.When every device in your life is connected to the Internet (the Internet of Things), your refrigerator will schedule an oil ch…
