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#AxisOfEasy 260: The Newest Anti-Tracking Tool That Checks If You’re Being Followed

August 23, 2022

The Newest Anti-Tracking Tool That Checks if You’re Being Followed,
Amazon’s Acquisition of the Roomba Is Dangerous,
Beware of fake Cloudflare protection screens Optimizing for Featured Snippets … this and more in AofE #260

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The Fed Can’t Stop Supply-Side Inflation

August 22, 2022

The Fed and other central banks have zero control of supply-driven inflation, period. America’s financial punditry is bewitched by four fatal fantasies: 1. Inflation is demand-driven. If the Federal Reserve (or other central banks) reduce demand with monetary tools like raising interest rates, inflation will cool.

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The Real Story of America Abandoning the Gold Standard

August 18, 2022

Even currencies maintaining convertibility to gold are still subject to bond yields, interest rates, trade and capital flows. It’s widely held that all of our financial woes are the result of abandoning the discipline of the gold standard in 1971.

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#AxisOfEasy 259: Amazon Plots To Turn Surveillance Network Into Reality TV Series

August 16, 2022

Amazon plots to turn surveillance network into reality TV series
A cyberattack targeted Finland’s parliament after the US moved to admit the country to NATO
RAT malware used in Cuba ransomware attacks… this and more in AofE #259

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Deglobalization Is Inflationary

August 15, 2022

Price cutting is being replaced with price gouging, a substitution that consumers recognize as inflation.. Globalization was deflationary, Deglobalization is inflationary. The entire point of globalization is to 1) lower costs as a means of maximizing profits and 2) find markets for surplus domestic production.

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A Tale of Two Recessions: One Excellent, One Tumultuous

August 11, 2022

Events may show that there are no winners, only survivors and those who failed to adapt. Some recessions are brief, necessary cleansings in which extremes of leverage and speculation are unwound via painful defaults, reductions of risk and bear markets.

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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.