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If we want social / economic renewal, we have to make it easy to climb the ladder to middle class security for anyone willing to adopt the values and habits of thrift, prudence, negotiation, and hard work.
If the consensus of experts misunderstand money, credit and prosperity, how are we going to advance? Describing all the ways experts got it wrong is a thriving cottage industry.
This dynamic–making problems much worse by forcing more of whatever worked in the previous era into a saturated, increasing unstable new era–receives little attention or understanding.
Twitter’s latest updates: Banned profiles and cross-posting,
US Congress Moves Towards Crypto Regulation in Wake of FTX Collapse,
Open FBI files to public review prompts democrat concerns…. this and more in AofE #278
The question that should be on our minds is: how are my household’s buffers holding up? Lists of predictions for the new year are reliably popular.
It’s inconvenient when those whose sacrifices are essential to the system get fed up and find some other way to live. Convenience isn’t just about small appliances. It’s also about ruling nations. Let’s start with the semantics of ruling nations.
It shouldn’t surprise us if 2023 turns out to be atypical and disruptively transformational in ways few believe possible. It seems expectations about 2023 cleave neatly into two camps:
The mainstream assumption is the status quo will continue on much as before. This isn’t just unlikely, it’s impossible if total energy produced and consumed declines.
The gag reflex kicks in at some point and we walk away because it is no longer worth the price. Everyone has a line in the sand when it comes to inflated prices they refuse to pay.
Fourth installment of Twitter files reveals secret US government Twitter portal for censoring COVID-19 material,
Indian Tax Administration Requires Citizens to Link Aadhaar ID to their Permanent Account Numbers,
How PayPal went from Democratizing Financial Services to Becoming a Cornerstone of Our Emerging Social Credit System…. this and more in AofE #277
In my analysis, this is a fatally flawed misreading of structural trends and cycles. Is it time to get out of the stock market?
Those who see the madness for what it is have only one escape: go to ground, fade from public view, become self-reliant and weather the coming storm in the nooks and crannies.
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and the Modern Political Machine (and His Arrest),
Senate Committee adds age verification requirements to Bill C-11,
Iran-Backed Hackers Targets Human Rights Groups, Journalists And Politicians … this and more in AofE #276
What’s unfettered in America is “Communism for the Rich” and the normalization of corruption that results from the auctioning of political power to protect monopolies and cartels.
That’s how things fall apart: insiders know but keep their mouths shut, outsiders are clueless, and the decay that started slowly gathers momentum as the last of the experienced and competent workforce burns out, quits or retires.
The clueless technocrats are about to discover that unfairness and exploitation can’t be measured like revenues and profits, but that doesn’t mean they’re not real.
The only rational response to this reality is to opt out, lay flat and let it rot.
ESC movement: End Surveillance Capitalism,
The Twitter files,
TikTok Invisible Challenge “Unfilter” steals credit cards and other info … this and more in AofE #275
Who believed that central banks’ financial perpetual motion machine was anything more than trickery designed to generate phantom wealth ?
Greed is a powerful motivation to be an ardent believer in the central banking cult. The ideal cult convinces its followers that it isn’t a cult, it’s simply the natural order of things.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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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.