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The present-day tariff-trade-war conflicts boil down to Neocolonial strategies to gain control of markets for exports and resource extraction on terms that are only favorable to the Neocolonial power.

It seems we’re supposed to mourn the last gasp of The Landfill Economy. Perhaps we should celebrate its demise.

These headwinds will persist for the next decade or two.

Like orbiting space debris, every loan that has been collateralized by an illiquid asset is a high-speed projectile with the potential to disable any other part of the system it impacts.

The fires that have been ignited are not yet visible.

There may be no winners of the game of Global Domination ™, and that is likely the best outcome.

The global recession will be deeper and longer than those relying on models based on the past two decades of hyper-globalization and hyper-financialization anticipate.

Consuming more of this Ultra-Processed World is not a path to “the good life,” it’s a path to the destruction and derangement of an Ultra-Processed Life.

In one way or another, we’re all POD People now, for precarity, ordeals and debasement are the New Normal.

Denial doesn’t end well, and the ‘Economy of Denial’ is destined to deconstruction.

The Chaos Monkeys are so masterful at distracting and confusing us with sensory-digital overload, we’re not even aware of the game until the extortion begins.

The binary ahead is the result of a simple law of Nature: adapt or die.

We’re prone to addiction, and addiction is highly profitable. They know it, and we know it.

These are difficult realities without Hollywood cliche answers.

Just the experiment of setting aside ideological certainties for a moment would be instructive.

The choice is simple: housing is either shelter for citizens, or it’s just another interchangeable speculative asset in the global financialization casino. It can’t be both.

Bottom line: with the loss of predictability, we’ve also lost any sense of future financial security.