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[Axis of Easy] Got A GPU Crypto-Miner? Repurpose It To Help Fight The Coronavirus

March 25, 2020

Weekly Axis Of Easy #138 Last Week’s Quote was  “There are decades when nothing happens, and then are weeks when decades happen”,  I thought it was Lenin, but it turns out it could be apocryphal. James Candon was first with Lenin, but Luke McCarthy dispelled the assumption. We’re awarding it to both of them.  This Week’s […]

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Helicopter Money: Short-Term Relief Won’t Cure our Financial Disease

March 23, 2020

The collateral supporting the global mountain of debt is crumbling as speculative bubbles deflate.A great many freebies are being tossed in the Helicopter Money basket. That households experiencing declines in income need immediate support is obvious, …

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The System Will Not Return to "Normal," and That’s Good; We Can Do Better

March 21, 2020

Essential home lockdown reading.The pandemic is revealing to all what many of us have known for a long time: the status quo was designed to fail and so its failure was not just predictable but inevitable.We’ve propped up a dysfunctional, wast…

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The Global Repricing of Assets Can’t Be Stopped

March 18, 2020

All bubbles pop, period.The financial elites are pushing a narrative that asset prices, sales and profits will all return to January 2020 levels as soon as the Covid-19 pandemic fades. Get real, baby. Nothing is going back to January 2020 levels. …

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[Axis of Easy] World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer Tasked With Finding COVID-19 Vaccine

March 17, 2020

Weekly Axis Of Easy #137 Last Week’s Quote was “We are all Keynesians now” was a trick question! Richard Nixon is frequently attributed with saying this when he took the USD off of Bretton Woods, but what he actually said was “I am now a Keynesian in economics”.  The quote itself was Milton Friedman This Week’s Quote: “There are decades when nothing happens, […]

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Covid-19 Helicopter Money: Go Big Now or Go Home

March 16, 2020

This is why it’s imperative to go big now, and make plans to sustain the most vulnerable households and small employers not for two weeks but for six months–or however long proves necessary.That governments around the world will be forced to distribut…

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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.