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What the Fed Accomplished: Distorted the Economy, Enriched the Rich and Crushed the Middle Class

By Charles Hugh Smith | January 4, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The mainstream holds the Fed is busy planning a return to the glory days of zero interest rates, but ZIRP is on the downside of the S-Curve; it’s done, gone, history.

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Summary: China vs. the CIA: Digital Potshots Ramp Up Cyber Threats for Private Organizations

By Bryan Lutz | January 3, 2024 | 0 Comments
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2023: The Fed Declares Victory; 2024: The Year of Hubris and Nemesis

By Charles Hugh Smith | January 1, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Are the crowds ready for the curtain of Fed omnipotence to be pulled aside? What will push markets ever higher if the Fed’s alchemy fails?

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#AxisOfEasy 330: Canadian Government Rewrites Online News Act To Further Monopolize Funds For Legacy Media

By Mark E. Jeftovic | December 29, 2023 | 1 Comment
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Canadian Government Rewrites Online News Act To Further Monopolize Funds for Legacy Media,
CBS, Paramount Parent Company, National Amusements, Hacked in Latest Data Breach,
Journalists Caught Unawares by New OpenAI Deal to Use Their Stories … this and more in AofE #330

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Rome Was Eternal, Until It Wasn’t: Imperial Analogs of Decay

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 29, 2023 | 0 Comments
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The tricky part is distinguishing the critical dependencies–those resources the empire literally cannot do without–from longer-term sources of decay and decline.

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What If There Are No Analogs for 2024?

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 26, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Maybe we’ll get 1893, 1929, 1968 and 2008 analogs mixed into a heady cocktail of surprises.

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#AxisOfEasy 329: Alarming Revelation: Smart Toys Collecting Biometric Data Of Children

By Mark E. Jeftovic | December 22, 2023 | 1 Comment
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Alarming Revelation: Smart Toys Collecting Biometric Data of Children,
Chimera Hackers Spent Over 2 Years Looting NXP Chip Designs and IP Before Being Detected,
Channel 1 Launches Proof-of-Concept Newscast, Revealing Just How Far AI-Generated Videos Have Come … this and more in AofE #329

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Everyone Loves a Generous Government Until They Have to Pay For It

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 22, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Not only does everyone love getting “free money” from the state, they also love hearing the fantasy repeated endlessly that debts are no problem because we will continue to “grow our way out of debt.”

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New email spoofing vector spotted – and it’s generating millions of hostile messages globally

By AxisOfEasy | December 20, 2023 | 0 Comments
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  Seen via the mailop mailing […]

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The Fed’s Empire of Speculation and the Echoes of 1929

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 19, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Speculation has its own expiration dynamics, and they don’t depend on us recognizing speculative excess for what it is. They will unravel the excesses regardless of what we think, hope or deny.

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#AxisOfEasy 328: Judicial Watch Acquires New Evidence Of CISA And EIP Alliance During 2020 US Election

By Mark E. Jeftovic | December 15, 2023 | 2 Comments
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Judicial Watch Acquires New Evidence of CISA and EIP Alliance During 2020 US Election,
Interpol Uncovers Human Traffickers Exploiting Fake Online Job Ads in Global Operation,
Kentucky-Based Healthcare Giant Norton Suffers Major Ransomware Attack … this and more in AofE #328

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Summary: Case Study on Velodrome’s DNS Attack

By Bryan Lutz | December 11, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Article Overview On November 22, Velodrome, […]

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Could America Have a French-Style Revolution?

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 10, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Combine all these factors and the result is a potentially volatile mixture awaiting a catalyst.

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#AxisOfEasy 327: Iran-Affiliated Hackers Attack Water Authorities Across Multiple US States

By Mark E. Jeftovic | December 8, 2023 | 2 Comments
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Iran-Affiliated Hackers Attack Water Authorities Across Multiple US States,
US State Department Faces Lawsuit Over Accusations of Funding Censorship Technology,
23andMe confirms Hackers Stole Nearly Half of its Customer Data … this and more in AofE #327

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Irony Alert: The American Dream Is Only Affordable Overseas

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 6, 2023 | 0 Comments
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This is not to suggest living/working overseas is a panacea or easy–it isn’t.

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We Feel Poorer Because We Are Poorer: Here’s Proof

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 3, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Measured by the purchasing power of our wages/work, we’re definitively poorer, as it takes far more hours of work now to pay rent.

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#AxisOfEasy 326: LockBit Ransomware Group Claims 1.5TB Of Stolen Documents Against Canadian Government

By Mark E. Jeftovic | December 1, 2023 | 2 Comments
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LockBit Ransomware Group Claims 1.5TB of Stolen Documents Against Canadian Government,
Unencrypted Messages Lead to Removal of Nothing Chats from Play Store,
easyDNS CEO Mark Jeftovic will be speaking at SplinterCon … this and more in AofE #326

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Never Mind Bogus Measures of Inflation–Purchasing Power Is What Counts, and It’s Decaying

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 30, 2023 | 0 Comments
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If your earnings rose by 34% from January 2020 to October 2023, congratulations, the purchasing power of your labor kept pace with higher costs.

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What Happens When Millions of Renters Can No Longer Afford High Rents and Move Back Home?

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 27, 2023 | 0 Comments
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What’s no longer affordable is eventually jettisoned, including high-rent homes and apartments.

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#AxisOfEasy 325: Unconventional Move: ALPHV Ransomware Group Files SEC Complaint Against Its Own Victim

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 24, 2023 | 1 Comment
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Unconventional Move: ALPHV Ransomware Group Files SEC Complaint Against Its Own Victim,
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp Files Lawsuit Against 20 Major Media Companies Over Coordinated Media Attack,
Canadian Police and Military Suffer Data Breach via Attack on Third-Party Moving Companies … this and more in AofE #325

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Black Flag Friday: Could Black Friday Be a Harbinger of a Tapped-Out Consumer?

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 24, 2023 | 0 Comments
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If Black Friday is a bust, it may be a harbinger of what the mainstream has long considered impossible: the American consumer is well and truly tapped out.

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Thanksgiving: When Gratitude Is In Short Supply

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 22, 2023 | 0 Comments
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There are times when the only triumph within reach is survival.

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This Holiday Season, Give the Wonderful Gift of Nothing

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 20, 2023 | 0 Comments
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There’s actually something refreshingly wonderful about enjoying all the traditions without the obligation to buy or make gifts.

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What’s It Take To Be Middle Class Now?

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 17, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Can an economy in which 10% of the households qualify as middle class claim to offer widespread opportunities for secure prosperity? No, it cannot.

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#AxisOfEasy 324: Microsoft And Facebook Announce Their Election Interference Plans Ahead Of 2024

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 17, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Microsoft and Facebook Announce Their Election Interference Plans Ahead of 2024,
What Users Need to Know About the New Outlook App,
Middle Eastern APT Group Uses Gaza as Lure for Latest Phishing Campaign … this and more in AofE #324

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Contributors

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.