Of Two Minds

That monkey on your back comes in many forms.

Perhaps the most apt metaphor to describe the decade ahead is that investors, consumers and taxpayers will all be rafting whitewater rapids with ever-briefer stretches of calm.

I think it’s more productive to go with Plan B: set aside our emotions and reluctance and start doing the hard work of dealing with polycrisis.

Your toxicity will fall to manageable levels as long as you keep spending money.

We’re told to stop being so darn negative even as the tsunami of inequality washes away the beach chairs of the bottom 90%.

What the cheerleaders are actually claiming is the process of adding zeroes to “money” is limitless, but there are limits on the utility of devaluing currency, too.