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How Do We Fix the Collapse of Quality?

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 20, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Every product now has an “extended warranty” admission of the collapse of quality and durability.

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The Cure for What Ails Us: Market Crash and Mass Defaults

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 18, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The system has reached extremes that can no longer be rebalanced by policy tweaks, borrowing another couple trillion dollars or inflating asset bubbles.

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#AxisOfEasy 376: Hot Topic Data Breach: Millions Exposed, Hacker Demands Ransom Amid Retailer Silence

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 15, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Hot Topic Data Breach: Millions Exposed, Hacker Demands Ransom Amid Retailer Silence,
Google’s Vertex AI Fixes Reveal Deep Vulnerabilities in Enterprise AI Security,
Iranian ‘Dream Job’ Attack Targets Aerospace with North Korean-Style Malware… this and more in AofE #376

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The Seeds of Social Revolution: Extreme Wealth Inequality

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 15, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The seeds of social revolution have been sown and sprouted. What we harvest is up to us.

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The Elephant in the Room–No, the Other Elephant

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 14, 2024 | 0 Comments
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No one is going to finger extreme wealth inequality as the proximate cause of what’s going down in the next decade, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t the tectonic cause.

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Machiavelli’s Sage Advice to Transformational Leaders

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 13, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Looming over the entire reformist enterprise are the costs and risks posed by debt.

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The Cost of Owning a Home Is Soaring

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 11, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The soaring costs of home ownership are changing the metrics of unaffordability in important ways.

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#AxisOfEasy 375: Canada’s Bill S-210 Sparks Concerns Over Digital ID Age Verification

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 8, 2024 | 3 Comments
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Canada’s Bill S-210 Sparks Concerns Over Digital ID Age Verification,
EFF Lawsuit Reveals $100 Million Government Surveillance of Immigrants’ Social Media,
Canada Faces Years of Cyber Breaches by Foreign Hackers … this and more in AofE #375

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Unaffordable Housing and Homeless Encampments: How Did It Get This Bad?

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 7, 2024 | 0 Comments
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To reverse the damage wrought by financialization, we must reverse financialization.

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The Limits of Government

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 6, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The limits of governmental power to solve the problems created by expanding governmental power are rising globally.

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Central Planning: China’s Miracle–and Malaise

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 4, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The illusion created by the initial success of central planning is that it can continue indefinitely, when the reality is it’s unavoidably self-liquidating as the distortions unravel the entire economy.

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#AxisOfEasy 374: Google and Microsoft Clash Escalates: Allegations of Shadow Campaigns, Cloud Wars, and Regulatory Maneuvers

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 1, 2024 | 1 Comment
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Google and Microsoft Clash Escalates: Allegations of Shadow Campaigns, Cloud Wars, and Regulatory Maneuvers,
French ISP Breach Exposes 19 Million Records Amid Rising Cyber Threat,
Tax Scammers Exploit CRA Weaknesses, Millions Paid in Bogus Refunds … this and more in AofE #374

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The Extremely Profitable Inner Workings of Digital Addiction

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 1, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Turn the crank of social media / search (SM/S) and you get highly profitable Digital Addiction and social destabilization leading to disorder and breakdown.

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Is Social Media Actually "Media," Or Is It Something Else?

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 30, 2024 | 0 Comments
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By placing search/social media in the bucket of newspapers, radio and TV networks, perhaps we’ve obscured their true nature as “Digital Marketing Mechanisms.”

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Welcome to the Circular Firing Squad

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 29, 2024 | 0 Comments
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If you find my scribblings upsetting, there’s an easy solution: stop reading it. We’ll both benefit.

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#AxisOfEasy 373: Microsoft Admits Losing Weeks Of Security Logs For Cloud Products

By Mark E. Jeftovic | October 25, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Admits Losing Weeks of Security Logs for Cloud Products,
Samsung Hit by Dangerous Zero-Day Exploit in Mobile Processors,
BT⚡TV 16: Marc Morano – CBDC’s Are About Creating a Permission-Based Society … this and more in AofE #373

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A Contrarian Clarification of "Free Speech"

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 25, 2024 | 0 Comments
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A social media company has the right to decline publishing my opinion, but the government’s ability to restrict what the social media company publishes is restricted by the First Amendment.

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All The World’s a Stage: Everything Is Fake

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 23, 2024 | 0 Comments
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No wonder we’re restless, teetering on the edge, frustrated by our addictions to fakery and excess, starved for what cannot be marketed or made profitable, so it no longer exists except in the shadows.

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17 Indicators of Global Recession Are Clanging

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 21, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The smart money is selling, of course, for the clanging indicators are the dinner bell announcing the banquet of consequences has been served, and Nemesis doesn’t want the meal to get cold.

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#AxisOfEasy 372: North Korean Hackers Use Linux Malware In Global ATM Heists

By Mark E. Jeftovic | October 18, 2024 | 2 Comments
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North Korean Hackers Use Linux Malware in Global ATM Heists,
Telekopye Scam Network Targets Booking.com and Airbnb Users,
WordPress War Heats Up as WP Engine Faces Legal Showdown … this and more in AofE #372

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Isn’t It Obvious?

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 18, 2024 | 0 Comments
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And so here we are, exhausted by the divisions, the frustration, the rage and our loneliness in a sea of madness few even see.

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We’re Told This Is Progress, But It’s Actually Anti-Progress

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 16, 2024 | 0 Comments
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We need a new definition of Progress, and a reset of the mythology guiding our descent into “Anti-Progress”.

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Can We Rein In the Excesses of Financialization Without Crashing the Economy?

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 14, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Or we can let the bubble implode under its own weight and have a plan ready to clean house when the dust settles.

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#AxisOfEasy 371: Malicious Chrome Extensions Exploit Google’s New Security Model

By Mark E. Jeftovic | October 11, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Malicious Chrome Extensions Exploit Google’s New Security Model,
Gamers Targeted by Fake Cheat Scripts Spreading Malware,
States Sue TikTok Over Alleged Child Exploitation and Mental Health Risks … this and more in AofE #371

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A Hard Rain Is Going to Fall

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 11, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The core skill going forward–frugality–is largely a forgotten skillset. Time to get busy while we still have time.

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Contributors

Mark E. Jeftovic

Mark E. Jeftovic

Mark is the co-founder of easyDNS and the editor-in-chief of #AxisOfEasy. He is the author of Managing Mission Critical Domains & DNS (Packt UK, 2018) and Unassailable: Protect Yourself from Deplatform Attacks & Cancel Culture. 

The Canadian Bitcoiners

The Canadian Bitcoiners

Joey Tweets and Len the Lengend are the hosts of The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast, and you may recognize them as the voices (and faces) behing the AxisOfEasy Podcast. CanadianBitcoiners.com

Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.