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Re-Opening the Economy Won’t Fix What’s Broken

May 26, 2020

Re-opening a fragile, brittle, bankrupt, hopelessly perverse and corrupt “normal” won’t fix what’s broken.The stock market is in a frenzy of euphoria at the re-opening of the economy. Too bad the re-opening won’t fix what’s broken. As I’ve been no…

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#AxisOfEasy 147: FBI End-Runs Apple’s Security By Hiring Outside Vendor To Crack iPhone

May 26, 2020

CCP monitors foreign WeChat to tune domestic censorship…Negative oil price triggers trading software bug, wipes out trader…
What to do about fake news when the gatekeepers are worse …and more in AofE #145

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An Economy That Cannot Allow Stocks to Decline Is Too Fragile To Survive

May 26, 2020

The fragile ice shelf of speculative bets and debt clinging to the mountainside is making strange creaking sounds– will you listen or will you ignore it because ‘the Fed has our back’?Feast your eyes on the chart below of the Nasdaq 100 stock market I…

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TINA’s Orgy: Anything Goes, Winners Take All

May 24, 2020

What nobody dares whisper is ‘there is no alternative to collapse’ because the system is now too fragile and brittle to survive.TINA–there is no alternative–is throwing an orgy of money-creation, and it’s one for the ages: The Federal Reserve ha…

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Opting Out, American Style

May 22, 2020

Virtually nothing in America’s top-down financial and political realms is actually transparent, accountable, authentic or honest.Opting out will increasingly be the best (or only) choice for tens of millions of people globally. Opting out&nbs…

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How much are your travel points worth now?

May 21, 2020

A cornerstone of our surveillance society is the use of loyalty marketing programs to obtain people’s consent for sophisticated profiling, data collection, and sharing. Although that consent is arguably meaningless, as the vast majority of consumers who collect “points” have no understanding of why those points are being given to them.

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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.