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The laughably hopeless hope is that by propping up the corpses, the populace will discern some faint flicker of life in the decaying carcasses and return to their free-spending ways.Call it cultural synchronicity, but it increasingly feels like we…

Sclerotic, hidebound institutions optimized for linear stability and permanent growth are simply not designed to adapt to non-linear change and disruption of permanent growth.Since the first news of pandemic in late January, I’ve been discussing potent…

Since human wetware remains stuck in OS1.01, we can predict a remarkable reversal.The “Everything Bubble” has been a sight to behold. With central banks providing trillions to the big players and margin debt enabling small punters to leverage up, …

This is the key dynamic of the economy going forward: defaults on debt, declining wealth as assets are relentlessly repriced lower and sharp declines in income due to layoffs and debt defaults.The economy is like an elephant surrounded by blindfolded e…

What they don’t understand is inequality is America’s Monster Id: the more you try to suppress it, the more powerful it becomes.The word privilege is much bandied about now. I’ve been writing about privilege for many years, and ended up …

As businesses, agencies and organizations recalibrate to the reality that the V-shaped recovery was nothing but a brief fantasy, 6 million additional jobs lost may be a best-case scenario rather than the worst-case scenario.It is somewhat less than rea…

The cognitive dissonance required to ignore the widening gap between the real economy and the fraud’s basic machinery–speculation funded by “money” conjured out of thin air–has reached a level of denial that can only be termed psychotic.When scams st…

The lower reaches of the financial food chain are already dying, and every entity that depended on that layer is doomed.Though under pressure from climate change, the dinosaurs were still dominant 65 million year ago–until the meteor struck, creating …

As with the French Revolution, that will be the trigger for a wholesale replacement of our failed institutions.Since it’s Bastille Day, a national holiday in France celebrating the French Revolution, let’s ask a question few even think (or dare) t…

You better bow low and pay up, peasant, or your voice in the digital world will disappear just as quickly as your democracy’s control over Big Tech.Who’s the junior partner in global hegemony, Big Tech or the U.S. government? The question would ha…

The greater fools still partying in the first-class lounge are in denial that even the greatest, most technologically advanced ship can sink.On April 14, 1912, the liner Titanic, considered unsinkable due to its watertight compartments a…

As the inverted pyramid collapses, the effects will be non-linear.Round about late March, we entered a Financial FantasyLand in which all the sins and excesses of rampant financialization were going to be painlessly washed away. Mever mind the ent…

Our society has a legal structure of self-rule and ownership of capital, but in reality it is a Neofeudal Oligarchy.Now that the pandemic is over and the economy is roaring again–so the stock market says–we’re heading straight back up into the good o…

Virtue-signaling texts from your $100 million yacht no longer impress, they enrage.For the past five decades, celebrities and other wealthy folks have sought conventional status signifiers / symbols: a couple hundred thousand acres of ranchland, a…