Issues
#AxisOfEasy 200: Chat App Of Choice For Cyber-Criminals Turns Out To Be Run By FBI
Google’s FLOC already being gamed by adtech companies
Bill C-10 hits rock bottom for Canadian democracy
Vaccine passports come to Manitoba, “no jab = no phone“ in Pakistan… this and more in Axis of Easy # 200
Seven Things Nobody Talks About that Will Eventually Matter–A Lot
Nobody seems to notice the ‘diminishing returns’ on Fed manipulation, oops, I mean ‘intervention’. Perhaps it shouldn’t surprise us that everything that will eventually matter is ignored until it does matter–but by then it’s too late.
VIEW POSTThe Fed Is Wrong: Inflation Is Sticky
The Fed’s god-like powers will be revealed for what they really are: artifice and illusion. The Fed will be proven catastrophically wrong about inflation for the simple reason that inflation isn’t transitory, it’s sticky: when prices rise due to real-world scarcities and higher costs, they stay high and then move higher as expectations catch up with reality.
VIEW POSTThe Sources of Rip-Your-Face-Off Inflation Few Dare Discuss
We’re getting a real-world economics lesson in rip-your-face-off increases in prices, and the tuition is about to go up–way up. Inflation will be transitory, blah-blah-blah–I beg to differ, for these reasons. There are numerous structural sources of inflation, which I define as prices rise while the quality and quantity of goods and services remain the same or diminish.
VIEW POST#AxisOfEasy 199: Welcome to Canada: Where Debate On Freedom Of Speech Is Officially Banned
Canadian government blocks discussion on internet censorship bill,
Docs show Google shares location data with other apps,
Brave browser adding support for ENS and Handshake domains… this and more in Axis of Easy # 199.
Post-Pandemic Metamorphosis: Never Going Back
People caught on that the returns on the frenzied hamster wheel of “normal” have been diminishing for decades, but everyone was too busy to notice. The superficial “return to normal” narrative focuses solely on first order effects now that people can dispense with masks and social distancing, they are resuming their pre-pandemic spending orgy with a vengeance, which augurs great profits for Corporate America and higher tax revenues.
VIEW POSTContributors
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.
Jesse Hirsh
Futurist, researcher and public speaker, Jesse Hirsh has been active in technology and commenting on it across the media for 25 years. His premium newsletter service operates from Metaviews.ca.
Charles Hugh Smith
Charles Hugh Smith is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.