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There may be no winners of the game of Global Domination ™, and that is likely the best outcome.

The global recession will be deeper and longer than those relying on models based on the past two decades of hyper-globalization and hyper-financialization anticipate.

Consuming more of this Ultra-Processed World is not a path to “the good life,” it’s a path to the destruction and derangement of an Ultra-Processed Life.

In one way or another, we’re all POD People now, for precarity, ordeals and debasement are the New Normal.

Denial doesn’t end well, and the ‘Economy of Denial’ is destined to deconstruction.

The Chaos Monkeys are so masterful at distracting and confusing us with sensory-digital overload, we’re not even aware of the game until the extortion begins.

The binary ahead is the result of a simple law of Nature: adapt or die.

We’re prone to addiction, and addiction is highly profitable. They know it, and we know it.

These are difficult realities without Hollywood cliche answers.

Just the experiment of setting aside ideological certainties for a moment would be instructive.

The choice is simple: housing is either shelter for citizens, or it’s just another interchangeable speculative asset in the global financialization casino. It can’t be both.

Bottom line: with the loss of predictability, we’ve also lost any sense of future financial security.

Markets misbehave, sometimes when we least expect it. How badly they misbehave depends on the soundness of the hull and the level of self-reinforcing hubris.

Lowering one’s tax burden is not the reason to pursue self-employment, but it is something worth understanding if you’re exploring self-employment.

The Problem With Money is that it’s complicated.

Meanwhile, in the lived-in world, our quality of life is unraveling in myriad ways as algorithmically-driven under-competence and mediocrity are now the norm.

Americans seem to have forgotten that we are not slaves to finance-tech profits as the sole divining rods to what happens next.