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Passively waiting for centralized powers to “save us” from their own excesses is not a solution.

Many consumers have yet to grasp how vulnerable they are to increasingly routine digital-component failures.

We trust what we own / control, and the difference between elites and commoners is the elites own / control the wealth and power that dominate our daily lives.

There is only one pathway to health and sanity: stop consuming snackables of any kind.

The sole remaining reservoirs of trust in American life are personal networks, local enterprises and local institutions.

The few winners of global recession will use the decline as a means to break the chokehold of unproductive BAU elites.

Everyone at the trough believes that the transition from liquid water (free flowing credit) to ice cannot possibly happen. So when it happens, everyone will be surprised.

The financial analysts gloating over the prospect of higher corporate profits resulting from firing workers overlook the collapse of customer satisfaction, productivity and leisure.

Part of why AI chatbots are so dreadful is we know the corporation / agency doesn’t care whether our problem gets resolved or not.

Policy errors have consequences, and we’re only in the first inning of those consequences.

What changed in the economy is now nobody can afford to get by on working-class wages because there’s no longer any bargains.

If Central Planning can’t expand its power, it expands its budget, at the expense of its programs.

What’s valuable is flexible, entrepreneurial, experiential-based skills that can be applied to a variety of problems–including those that have yet to arise.

One wonders what we’re paying for via taxes, products and services, when we end up having to do so much of the work ourselves for nothing.

Everything is presented as rock-solid until it falls apart.

The top 0.1% will weather a recession just fine, but that will offer cold comfort to the other 130 million American households.

Those who came of age after 1982 have never experienced a real recession, and so they’re unprepared for anything other than guarantees of rescue and permanent expansion.