Issues
Here’s Why America’s Labor-Shortage Will Drive Inflation Higher
Great swaths of the American workforce are already on strike or slipping away from the dead-end treadmill. America’s labor shortage is complex and doesn’t lend itself to the simplistic expectations favored by media talking heads. The Wall Street cheerleaders extol the virtues of “getting America back to work” which is Wall-Street-speak for getting back to exploiting workers to maximize corporate profits.
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#AxisOfEasy 204: New “Hate Speech” Bill Provides For Pre-Crime, House Arrest And Ankle Tracking Bracelets
Canada’s C-36 “hate speech” bill provides for pre-crime, house arrest and ankle tracking bracelets,
Cuba shuts down Internet as mass protests erupt in the streets,
White House wants social media and SMS carriers to police “misinformation” in text messages…this and much more in Axis of Easy # 204
The $50 Trillion Plundered from Workers by America’s Aristocracy Is Trickling Back
As I often note here, when you push the pendulum to an extreme of wealth and income inequality, it will swing to the opposite extreme minus a tiny bit of friction. The depth of America’s indoctrination can be measured by the unquestioned assumption that Capital should earn 15% every year, rain or shine, while workers are fated to lose ground every year, rain or shine.
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Housing Bubble #2: Ready to Pop?
All debt-fueled speculative bubbles pop, even as cheerleaders claim otherwise. The expansion of Housing Bubble #2 is clearly visible in these two charts of house valuations, courtesy of the St. Louis Federal Reserve database (FRED). The first is the Case-Shiller Index, which as you recall tracks the price of homes on an “apples to apples” basis, i.e. it tracks price movements for the same house over time.
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The right to repair is not the ability to repair
Living out in the country, the repair ethos flourishes. I suspect it is partly a consequence of extra space. Seemingly everyone has a project vehicle or two, in addition to some broken heavy equipment, and extra machines kept on hand for spare parts.
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#AxisOfEasy 203: Another Supply Chain Attack Infects Thousands Of Businesses With Ransomware
Canada’s new “Guiding Principles” for Internet are “Creepily Totalitarian,”
Another SolarWinds type supply chain hack as Kaseya discloses breach,
Microsoft researchers find Netgear router vulnerability… this and more in this week’s Axis of Easy #203
Contributors
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.
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