Latest Issues of #AxisOfEasy
The sands beneath what’s scarce and what’s over-abundant are shifting.On a recent visit to the welding shop where my niece’s husband works, I asked him if they had enough welders for their workload. His answer surprised me: “If you asked every wel…
Read it »Thus do the lazy complacent passengers drift inexorably toward the cataracts of collapse just ahead.The boat ride down to the waterfall of systemic collapse is not dramatic, it’s lazy drifting: a lazy complacency that doing more of what worked in …
Read it »Thus do the lazy complacent passengers drift inexorably toward the cataracts of collapse just ahead.The boat ride down to the waterfall of systemic collapse is not dramatic, it’s lazy drifting: a lazy complacency that doing more of what worked in …
Read it »Microsoft waited two years to fix 0-day it knew was being actively exploited, Canada’s COVID-19 contact tracing app now available, and why I installed it, Canada Revenue Agency shuts down online services after cyber attack..and more!
Read it »Triffin’s Paradox demands painful trade-offs to issue a reserve currency, and it demands the issuing central bank serve two competing audiences and markets.Judging by the headlines and pundit chatter, the U.S. dollar is about to slide directly to zero….
Read it »On Friday, August 14th, Infowars reporter Millie Weaver released a documentary called ShadowGate, which alleges that a private contractor complex within the USA accessed and manipulated data, promulgated false narratives and waged psychological operations against individuals and groups both within the US and worldwide.
That same day she was also arrested…
Read it »It’s Do-or-Die, Deep State: Either Strangle the Stock Market Rally Now or Cede the Election to Trump
With only 56 trading days and fewer than 80 calendar days to the election, the Deep State camps seeking to torpedo Trump’s re-election have reached the do-or-die point.Back in June I speculated that the only way the Deep State could deep-six Trump’s re…
Read it »This is why denormalization is an extinction event for much of our high-cost, high-complexity, heavily regulated economy.A collapse of major chunks of the economy is widely viewed as “impossible” because the federal government can borrow and spend unli…
Read it »Here’s what denormalization means: there was no “New Normal” for the dinosaurs.Everyone talks about the “New Normal,” as if there’s a guarantee that life will return to normal. But the “New Normal” is De-Normalization, which I defin…
Read it »Two simple regulations would drive a stake through Wall Street’s corrupt, evil heart.While the corporate media is focused on the presidential election, perhaps the more interesting question is: could Wall Street Lose the election? That is, could W…
Read it »Private companies installed trackers in apps on your phone and sell the data to the government
Intel hacked, 20GB of corporate data and chip designs dumped on the net
“All your DNA are belong to Blackstone” In 4.7B Ancestry.com deal
A fully financialized, totally debt and speculation-dependent economy is terminal once leverage and debt stop expanding exponentially.We all know the movie scene in which the character is wounded but dismisses it as no big deal, and then lurches into t…
Read it »The reliance on “good news” narratives dooms our financial system and economy to a death spiral once reality breaks through the induced euphoria.”Markets” that never go down aren’t markets, they’re signaling mechanisms of the Powers That Be. Marke…
Read it »We have three basic ways to counter the destructive consequences of stress.We have all experienced the disorientation and “brain freeze” that stress triggers. The pandemic and the responses to the pandemic have been continuous sources of stress, i…
Read it »Tik Tok banned, sold, unsold, unbanned, rebanned or something
Four Hong Kong youths arrested for online postings under new security law
Surprise! Youtube censorship actually expanded reach of California doctors’ video
Social media offers hope of achieving higher social status, something that is increasingly out of reach in our winner-take-most economy.I’ve often addressed the decline of social mobility and the addictive nature of social media, for example, Why …
Read it »Few appear willing to follow the probabilities of a future in which a vaccine cannot possibly be the “magic cure” everyone wants.Let’s attempt the impossible and set aside all preconceptions we might have about a vaccine for Covid-19, and think it thro…
Read it »The self-sustaining recovery is a fantasy that’s evaporated.What looks like a powerful, can’t-lose rally to newbies is recognized as distribution by old hands. In low-volume markets (as in the past few months), insiders holding large pos…
Read it »No federal bailout or stimulus can reverse these three dynamics, and no amount of legerdemain can replace the spending of the top 10%.Few of those anxiously seeking a rebound in consumer spending take into account the top 10% of households account for …
Read it »Not only is our lifestyle on back-order, so is our sanity.Yesterday I mentioned our collective inability to make sense of the contradictory messages of the status quo and our own experience. This inability to reconcile completely contradictory mes…
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.