Latest Issues of #AxisOfEasy
If you don’t uninstall TikTok, you’re putting America at risk,
Pegasus Project Findings Raise Alarms Around European Government Surveillance,
Dutch government threatens to dump Facebook if security concerns aren’t addressed … this and more in AofE #274
It’s not just the price of oil that matters: how much disposable income consumers have left to buy more goods and services matters, too. The Oil Curse (a.k.a. The Resource Curse) refers to the compelling ease of those blessed with an abundance of oil/resources to depend on that gift for the majority of state/national revenues.
Read it »Few seem alive to the potentially consequential financial risks arising from uncertainties evolving in China. One thing we know rather definitively is that markets don’t like uncertainty: uncertainty is Kryptonite to markets.
Read it »What all the entrenched insiders in America’s parasitic, predatory elites and institutions don’t dare admit is that to protect themselves from consequence, we’ve had to sacrifice everything else.
Read it »When these are no longer valued as essentials for the common good, society is lost. I’m thankful for the eight things to aspire to listed at the bottom of the right-hand column of the main blog page:
Read it »As workforces shrink and opting out becomes increasingly attractive, Global Growth implodes on both the production and consumption sides. A funny thing happened on the way to permanent global growth.
Read it »Only when speculative sizzle attracts no buyers / marks will the bottom be in. There hasn’t been a truly organic bottom in stocks in decades. Fifteen years of relentless central bank manipulation since the 2008-09 Global Financial Meltdown has persuaded punters that central banks will always save us should the market turn down because relentless central bank suppression of interest rates and expansion of liquidity a.k.a. free money for financiers are now necessary and thus predictably permanent.
Read it »Once assets are revealed as worth far less than claimed, insolvency is the inevitable result. If you haven’t plowed through dozens of post-collapse commentaries on FTX, I’m saving you the trouble: here’s a distillation of what matters going forward.
Read it »Concern over rise in number of phishing attempts: Dropbox breach of 130 GitHub repositories claimed as latest victim,
Robert McElvaine wants newspapers and the media to choose sides in this election,
Man who had $3.36 billion in Bitcoins stashed in his home, found by the police, … this and more in AofE #272
You want to fix the world with finance? Then fix this: wages’ share of a financialized, globalized, speculative-bubble dependent economy have been falling for decades. Fix this and you really will change the world. Anything less changes nothing.
Read it »When bubbles pop, it’s natural selection at its most unforgiving: “adapt or die,” and those who ignore or discount consequential asymmetries will have a very difficult time navigating the triage.
Read it »It’s certainly possible to be disgusted, but being disabused of the fantasy that the system is self-correcting is the healthier perspective. I used to be disgusted, now I’m disabused: beneath all the self-serving narratives, fad-memes and over-simplifications regurgitated as serious analysis, these are the core dynamics I see: 1. Imperial corruption of democracy and open markets.
Read it »But in the meantime, enjoy the political theatrics down on the sand-strewn floor of the Coliseum. While the much-touted differences between America’s political parties get obsessive, hysterical attention, the sameness of Imperial corruption, waste and squalor regardless of who’s in power gets little notice.
Read it »No, Mark Jeftovic is not trying to pump cryptos in your Twitter DMs,
Latest Hacking Attempt on Liz Truss’ Phone Raises Concerns about the State of British Government Cybersecurity,
Freedom of Speech Concerns Following Department of Homeland Security’s Move Towards Fighting Disinformation Online, this and more in AofE #271
Decades of central bank distortions and regulatory / market-share capture by cartels and monopolies have completely gutted “markets,” destroying their self-correcting dynamics. Unintended consequences introduce unexpected problems that may not have easy solutions.
Read it »Central bank gaming of Finance is the source of instability. The era of all-powerful central banks is over for a simple reason: they failed: they failed their citizens, their nations, and they failed the world. Their policies have pushed wealth and income inequality to extremes that have destabilized the planet’s social, political, economic and environmental spheres.
Read it »TechCrunch’s Analysis of TheTruthSpy and the State of other Stalkerware Apps,
Mark Sokolovsky, Alleged 26-year-old Behind Global “Raccoon InfoStealer” Malware, Charged by FBI,
Project Texas: How TikTok Responds to Its First Big Crisis… this and more in AofE #270
What’s different now? Quite a few fundamentals are consequentially different. The closest thing to a guarantee in finance is the truism that recessions always follow Treasury bond yield inversions, where short-term bond yields exceed longer-duration bond yields.
Read it »Liberation in the real world is the result of self-reliance and investing in our own well-being. Liberation has many contexts. It can mean being freed from imprisonment or servitude, freedom from gnawing want or oppression, or being liberated from prisons of the mind.
Read it »#AxisOfEasy 269: British Lawmakers Passed A Bill Allowing Protesters To Be Tagged Without Conviction
British lawmakers passed a bill allowing protesters to be tagged without conviction,
Florida man imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for tweeting about Jamal Khashoggi,
Cyber Security Chief of Germany Got Laid-Off Due to Ties with Russia … this and more in AofE #269
Everyone caught by surprise that the infinite road actually has an end will face a bewildering transition. The End of the “Growth” Road is upon us, though the consensus continues to hold fast to the endearing fantasy of infinite expansion of consumption.
Read it »So-called “cosmetic work” can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Now that housing is finally rolling over due to rising mortgage rates and bubble valuations, many of those who have been priced out of the market are hoping to take advantage of lower prices.
Read it »NYT conspiracy theory comes true in less than 24 hours,
PayPal continues to threaten its user with a $2,500 fine for promoting “discriminatory intolerance,”
Religious freedom group’s account closed by JPMorgan Chase donor list demanded … this and more in AofE #268
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.