Latest Issues of #AxisOfEasy
Be careful what you wish for, because currencies are not abstractions we ponder, they are commodities that serve real-world functions that place demands on the currency as a mechanism of trade, trust, value and risk.
Read it »Yes, I’m rattling the begging bowl.
Beneath the veneer of normalcy, things are no longer working like they’re supposed to. Am I the only one who senses this? >
In a system maintained by ever-greater extremes, confidence erodes very quickly once the next extreme fails to move the needle.
Read it »This is how we’ll end up with severe shortages of truly skilled labor and high unemployment of those who lack the necessary skills.
Read it »Imagine the immensity of their disappointment in discovering Earth offers few opportunities for trade or investment.
New research has finally solved the mystery of why UFOs/UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) have been visiting Earth since the late 1940s.
The market and the government will continue to promote and support a neofeudal status quo until they are forced by society to restore the common good and opportunity. Of the three primary dynamics of human endeavor–the market, government and society–we focus almost exclusively on the first two.
Read it »Chinese Budget Shopping App, Pinduoduo, Temporarily Suspended on Google Play Store Over Malware Concerns,
Meta’s former trust and safety manager among the targets of Predator hack,
SpaceX RaptorV2 Documents Leaked in Latest LockBit Ransomware Attack … this and more in AofE #291
The resulting erosion of collateral will collapse the global credit bubble, a repricing/reset that will bankrupt the global economy and financial system. Scrape away the complexity and every economic crisis and crash boils down to the precarious asymmetry between collateral and the debt secured by that collateral collapsing.
Read it »Everyone wants a trend they can trade for effortless gains. That may no longer be realistic.
Read it »Microsoft AI ethics department disbanded amidst industry warnings,
FBI Analyst violates rules in Congress member search, reignites section 702 debate,
Jonathan Turley: Senator Kelly Adds Bank Insolvency to the Long List of Subjects Democrats Wish to Censor on Social Media … this and more in AofE #290
What the Warring Elites don’t want us to realize is that a system of transparent competition in which no fiefdom is allowed to become dominant best serves the interests of society at large.
Read it »A stagnating zombie economy never recovers. Four decades of rising markets punctuated by crisis-induced crashes seems to have fostered an unspoken belief that no one should ever get hurt in markets or the economy.
Read it »We can also predict that the next round of instability will be more severe than the previous bout of instability. Everyone is in favor of “doing whatever it takes” to “restore financial stability” when the house of cards starts swaying, but funny things happen on the way to “Restoring Financial Stability.”
Read it »Drop what you’re doing: Update Android edition
Lazarus Group employs BYOVD attack and fileless execution in South Korean financial entity hack
Mark Jeftovic – Future of Privacy & The Internet, The Bitcoin Capitalist & EasyDNS … this and more in AofE #289
Our faith in the wobbling world of hyper-financialization will soon be tested. It’s interesting, isn’t it, that amidst a tsunami of commentary about banks, nobody mentions the proverbial elephant in the room, which is the overwhelming dominance of finance in the economy and society, a dominance which raises the big question:
Read it »The next Bull Market will start when everyone has given up on the stock market as the means to “get rich quick” or even “get rich slowly.” Here’s the chart of the month: a weekly chart of the S&P 500 (SPX) showing the giant wedge going back to January 2022 has broken decisively down.
Read it »If AI isn’t self-aware of the fact it is nothing but an exploitive tool of the powerful, then it’s worthless. The latest wave of AI tools is generating predictably giddy exaltations.
Read it »The unencumbered realist concludes that there are no solutions within a status quo structure that is itself the problem. Realists who question received wisdom and conclude the status quo is untenable are quickly labeled pessimists because the zeitgeist expects a solution is always at hand–preferably a technocratic one that requires zero sacrifice and doesn’t upset the status quo apple cart.
Read it »Choose one, and only one: a stock market that inflates and pops in an endless series of ever-more destructive bubbles, or a real economy that is no longer in thrall to the engines of wealth inequality and speculative frenzy.
Read it »My projections are: less high-quality work gets done; less work of any quality gets done; those carrying most of the weight burn out and quit and everyone wonders why the quality of goods and services is sinking to new lows.
Read it »So sorry, but the lifestyle of low-cost credit and all the goodies it could buy is permanently out of stock. In focusing on geopolitics, we lose sight of the dependence of every economy on a functioning global economy of low-cost goods, services, materials, shipping, transport, capital, labor and financial instruments, all flowing freely across borders and around the world.
Read it »Google blocks percentage of Canadian users from accessing the news online in light of Canadian bill C-18
The case for adopting DNSSEC, and why it’s so unpopular,
Mark Jeftovic on Red Jacket Capital podcast: “Buying Bitcoin is like buying the whole internet in 1990”
… this and more in AofE #287
The decay in quality reveals that the collapse of the neoliberal-hyper-financialization-hyper-globalization model has already occurred.
Read it »Contributors
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
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 is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.