Latest Issues of #AxisOfEasy
An agency to rule them all
In the wake of this week’s preliminary antitrust activity, there’s been a flurry of responses and a resurgence of recurring narratives. One of the most cliché (and yet still credible) is the issue of capability and proficiency.
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Next Up: Global Depression
The belief that central banks printing currency can “buy/fix” everything that’s broken, lost or scarce is the ultimate in denial, fantasy and magical thinking. Let’s revisit the pandemic projection chart I prepared on February 2, 2020, nine days after authorities publicly acknowledged the Covid virus outbreak in China.
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Everything We Assume Is Permanent Is Actually Fragile
Masking the rot and fragility is not the same thing as strength or permanence. The great irony of the past 75 years of expanding consumption is the belief that all these decades of success prove the system is rock-solid and future success is thus guaranteed.
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Everything is Staged
All the staging is a means to an end, and everyone in America is nothing more than a means to an end: close the sale so the few can continue exploiting the many.
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Google, antitrust, and the myth of choice
What is the nature of Google’s monopoly and how should it be regulated or ended?
Until now that’s largely been a theoretical question, however the US Department of Justice has turned it into a political one with less than two weeks before election day.
The New Tyranny Few Even Recognize
Clearly, the Fed reckons the public is foolish enough to believe the Fed’s money will actually be “free.” It’s pretty much universally recognized that authorities use crises to impose “emergency powers” that become permanent. This erosion of civil and economic liberties is always sold as “necessary for your own good.”
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