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If things unravel, these risk-reduction strategies quickly shift from “nice to have” to “essential.” But by then, it will be too late to put them in place.

Once leadership of this nature is properly understood, Ms. Swift is eminently qualified to be President.

Change the incentives and feedback loops and you change the flavor of Doom we’re about to be served.

The ‘revolt of the elites’ has reversed the source of social disorder from the masses to the elites.

Something has been going very wrong in the US economy for a very long time, and whatever is going wrong accelerated from 2009 to the present.

Value varies. Invest in what’s valuable.
It’s a well-recognized human bias to feel losses more acutely than gains. Perhaps something similar occurs with inflation.

Does anyone really believe that the renunciation of massive, sustained stimulus of speculation in housing would leave housing valuations unchanged because valuations are solely the result of “shortages”?

If we compare health and endurance, well-being, security, general attitudes, family and community ties and values, we would conclude that it is we who are impoverished.

Should stock valuations track this same decline in profits, it’s entirely reasonable to expect the stock market to lose 2/3 of its valuation premium.

We’d rather risk societal collapse than face the sacrifices and challenges of revolutionizing our unsustainably neofeudal economy and broken gears of governance.

Let’s review how to select a town that the rich won’t ruin via gentrification / swarming in en masse and driving out locals who have to work for a living.

This is the direct consequence of the Federal Reserve’s decades of unprecedented stimulus: extremes of wealth and income inequality that gave the wealthiest households the means to bid up housing to the point it’s no longer affordable to the bottom 90%.

The whole point of democracy and free markets is to force competition on elites who are desperate to eliminate competition.