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The Winter of Our Discontent: Hubris Is Ascendent

February 18, 2022

Meanwhile, back in the wintry real world, everyone facing a dime in higher costs is jacking up their price by a dollar. We’re constantly assured everything’s on the mend but this trying-too-hard marketing has the opposite effect: it confirms everything’s unraveling.

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Juggling Sticks of Dynamite: Our Fatally Distorted Sense of Risk

February 16, 2022

So when the gambler ends up juggling lit sticks of dynamite, he’s confident nothing bad can happen because nothing bad has ever happened, no matter how much risk he takes on. The problem with constantly being saved from the consequences of our actions is this fatally distorts our sense of risk.

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#AxisOfEasy 233: OilRig Hackers Develop New Backdoor In ‘Out To Sea’ Espionage Campaign

February 15, 2022

Russian Hackers impersonate the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Target European Diplomats,
DHS warns against mistrust of the US government in the latest terror bulletin,
OilRig hackers develop new backdoor in ‘Out to Sea’ Espionage Campaign … this and more in AofE #233

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Let’s Talk "Fed Policy Error," Pushers and Addiction

February 14, 2022

Addiction is deadly, and no amount of artifice can obscure that this monetary addiction and collapse is the result of one Pusher: the Federal Reserve. To talk about the Federal Reserve raising rates and reducing “easing” as a policy error is like saying the fentanyl addict who reduces his daily dose is making a policy error.

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The Cost of Financialization-Globalization: You Lost $500,000 and Gained $137.13

February 11, 2022

Ponder what a clawback of the $50 trillion might entail, and the immense benefits of returning to producing quality goods and services by completely unwinding financialization and globalization. The happy story that’s been ceaselessly promoted for 45 years is that financialization and globalization have been wunnerful for all of us, boosting wealth and saving a small fortune as the cost of products fell.

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The "Crapification" of the U.S. Economy Is Now Complete

February 9, 2022

The crapification of the U.S. economy is now complete. The only thing left is the tiresome waiting for the implosion of the entire travesty of a mockery of a sham. The U.S. economy has fundamentally changed, and not for the better. There are numerous dynamics behind this decay, and I’ll discuss a few of the more consequential ones this month.

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Contributors

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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. 

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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.

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Charles Hugh Smith

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