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How Much Do You Spend on Food?

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 2, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Maybe the question isn’t just “how much do you spend on food,” but “what value are you getting for what you spend in time and money for food?”

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We’re Eating Our Seed Corn

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 31, 2023 | 0 Comments
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What will break is not as predictable as the reality that the current trajectory is untenable and unsustainable.

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The Counterculture Everyone Forgot

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 29, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Rather than mocking the Counterculture, we would benefit from re-acquiring its values that favored frugality and the ownership of skills, work, enterprise and land.

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#AxisOfEasy 321: Westminster Declaration Highlights Threat Of Digital Censorship

By Mark E. Jeftovic | October 27, 2023 | 7 Comments
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Westminster Declaration Highlights Threat of Digital Censorship,
Instagram Chief says Threads Censorship only “Temporary,” Despite No Official Deadline,
Cookie Hijacking Attempt on Okta Support System May Have Exposed Customer Files … this and more in AofE #321

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Our Neofeudal, Neocolonial World

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 26, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Once the chasm widens a bit more, the “efficient market” cover story bridge collapses into the abyss.

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The Profitable Destruction of Americans’ Health

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 23, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Who needs a healthy populace rich in well-being when you can have trillions in annual corporate profits?

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#AxisOfEasy 320: Browser Update Scam Takes A Decentralized Turn With Cryptocurrency Blockchain

By Mark E. Jeftovic | October 20, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Browser Update Scam Takes a Decentralized Turn with Cryptocurrency Blockchain,
Micfo LLC CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison Over Wire Fraud,
Nurse in Hot Water with the College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan Over Social Media Posts Criticizing Province’s COVID Mandates … this and more in AofE #320

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Lowering Risk as We Enter Forced Frugality

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 20, 2023 | 0 Comments
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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.

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Our Mutually Reinforcing Crises: Not All Polycrises Are Equal

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 18, 2023 | 0 Comments
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That’s the difficulty with nonlinear, mutually reinforcing crises: our over-confidence, hubris and refusal to consider sacrifices will be our undoing.

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We Need a Change: Taylor Swift for President

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 16, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Once leadership of this nature is properly understood, Ms. Swift is eminently qualified to be President.

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#AxisOfEasy 319: Carbon Passports: A Dystopian Surveillance Threat

By Mark E. Jeftovic | October 13, 2023 | 2 Comments
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Carbon Passports: A Dystopian Surveillance Threat,
Diabetes Drug, Ozempic, Suppresses Patients’ Appetite, Sending Drugstores Nationwide into a Panic,
Ancestry Website, 23andMe, Data Stolen in Attack Targeting Jews… this and more in AofE #319

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Downward Mobility and Life on the Margins

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 13, 2023 | 0 Comments
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We can anticipate a sharp reduction in conventional financial security in the next decade as the waste is growth / Landfill Economy runs out of cheap materials to throw away.

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On Thin Ice

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 11, 2023 | 0 Comments
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There is very little wiggle-room left in many household budgets, and any decline in income will crack the ice.

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The Many Flavors of Doom

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 9, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Change the incentives and feedback loops and you change the flavor of Doom we’re about to be served.

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#AxisOfEasy 318: Security Risks Loom Over Public Zoom Meeting Links

By Mark E. Jeftovic | October 6, 2023 | 2 Comments
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Security Risks Loom Over Public Zoom Meeting Links,
Renowned Authors Fight Back Against OpenAI’s Unauthorized Content Use in LLM Training,
Canada Imposes Mandatory Registration for Podcast Platforms Under Government Authority… this and more in AofE #318

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The Bottomless Swamp of Regulatory Capture

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 6, 2023 | 0 Comments
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All this grift, graft, predatory pricing, price-fixing and parasitic monopolizing costs the public and the economy dearly.

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Our Revolting Elites

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 4, 2023 | 0 Comments
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The ‘revolt of the elites’ has reversed the source of social disorder from the masses to the elites.

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How Great Is Our Economy If the Bottom 50%’s Share of the Nation’s Wealth Has Plummeted Since 2009?

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 2, 2023 | 0 Comments
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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.

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#AxisOfEasy 317: Xenomorph Malware Spreads To Spanish And American Banks In Latest Campaign

By Mark E. Jeftovic | September 29, 2023 | 3 Comments
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Xenomorph Malware Spreads to Spanish and American Banks in Latest Campaign,
Phishing Campaign Continues to Target Luxury Hotels,
Canada leads new UN declaration to fight online disinformation… this and more in AofE #317

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Now Hiring: The Ministry of Failure

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 29, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Those expecting some centralized, political-administrative “solution” will be disappointed, as the political-administrative “solution” is actually the problem.

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The Psychology of Inflation: What Makes You Say, "No Way Am I Paying That"?

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 27, 2023 | 0 Comments
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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.

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When Shelter Becomes a Speculative Asset, Society Unravels

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 25, 2023 | 0 Comments
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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”?

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A Time Capsule from the 1930s: What’s Different Now

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 22, 2023 | 0 Comments
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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.

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#AxisOfEasy 316: Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team Issues Fix For Two PHP Object Injection Vulnerabilities

By Mark E. Jeftovic | September 22, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team Issues Fix for Two PHP Object Injection Vulnerabilities,
Retool Notifies 27 Cloud Customers of Unauthorized Spear Phishing Attack,
GitHub Repository Belonging to Microsoft’s AI Research Division Accidentally Exposes 38 TB of Data… this and more in AofE #316

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Six Reasons Why Corporate Profits Will Fall 50%

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 20, 2023 | 0 Comments
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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.

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Mark E. Jeftovic

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. 

The Canadian Bitcoiners

The Canadian Bitcoiners

Joey Tweets and Len the Lengend are the hosts of The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast, and you may recognize them as the voices (and faces) behing the AxisOfEasy Podcast. CanadianBitcoiners.com

Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.