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US Dollar Strength: "Unintended Consequences" Or "The Empire Strikes Back"?

July 13, 2022

How unintended can these consequences be? My guess: not very. A great many people got the U.S. dollar trade wrong. The conventional view held that “printing money”, i.e. expanding the supply of money, would automatically devalue the currency.

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#AxisOfEasy 254: Apple Debuts Lockdown Mode to Prevent State-Sponsored Spying

July 12, 2022

Apple Debuts Lockdown Mode to Prevent State-Sponsored Spying,
Canada wide Rogers outage,
Canada is censoring us and bill c-11 will make it worse … this and more in AofE #254

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Calm Before the Tempest?

July 11, 2022

Is it beyond conception that the core actually strengthens for a length of time before the unraveling reaches it? Let’s start by stipulating the obvious: no one knows the future, and most of the guesses–oops, I mean forecasts –will be wrong.

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Why Nations Fail

July 8, 2022

The irony is that the suppression of dissent is the suppression of competing ideas that generate systemic stability via rapid adaptation. Nations that appear stable may fail once they’re under pressure. What do I mean by “under pressure”?

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You Know What Would Be Really Irritating? A Crazy Rally to New Highs

July 7, 2022

It would be very irritating to have a rally suck in all the bears salivating for a crash from a bear-market rally peak and then decimate the shorts with a rally that soars rather than collapses to new lows. As a contrarian, I’m always squinting at the consensus and wondering if it is really that easy to be right.

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#AxisOfEasy 253: Ending Freedom Of The Press, Speech, And Expression: The Main Goal Of Big Corporations

July 5, 2022

Massive DDoS Attacks: Killnet Group Targeted Lithuania Government Institutions Websites,
Netflix Crashes After ‘Stranger Things 4’ Finale Release,
Ending Freedom of the Press, Speech, and Expression: The Main Goal of Big Corporations … this and more in AofE #253

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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.