This post is neither left, right or even in the middle. It is only what it is. And, to inform whatever checklist you may have when reading this post, I [ … ]
Our Economy is Optimized for Financialization
Labor’s share of the national income is in freefall as a direct result of the optimization of financialization. The Achilles Heel of our socio-economic system is the secular stagnation of [ … ]
Don’t be scared by the elephant chart: it shows that most of us are getting richer
Despite many qualities, the Archbishop of Canterbury speaks as though he is shamefully illinformed and lazy-minded about the global economy, making hasty, ill thought out assertions about how society is [ … ]
Equifax met fourth generation warfare. And lost.
State on State warfare is not the always imminent and ongoing political tragedies it once was. Warfare against the United States is being fought by with fourth generation warfare rules. [ … ]
A nuke killed millions today, but it’s not on CNN or in Google, now what?
The media are quasi-governmental organs, predictably predictable and predictably dishonest. The truth is not in them. We now have a press of two tiers, the establishment media and the net, [ … ]
Of Trump, Russia and the wisdom of frenzy
After six months of co-ordinated allegation from the mainstream media allied to the leadership of state security institutions, not one single scrap of solid evidence for Trump/Russia election hacking has [ … ]
Statues made of sand. Who’s coming down and what’s going up…
Statues are made of sand. Let them tumble down. Whoever was great once was not meant to last. What sand dunes will be put atop the pedestal. Who is great [ … ]
Moody’s says Amazon ain’t
MarketWatch has written up a overdue sanity check by Moody’s on Amazon’s supposed clout. It find that there’s a big disconnect between stock market enthusiasm and the Seattle firm’s real world [ … ]
Personal Property and Consumerism
Consumerism is a simulacrum of real economic agency. The more capital you have, the greater your power to influence or change your circumstances. The less capital one has, the less power [ … ]
Facebook. The profitable intelligence agency
What do all those people in the CIA, NSA and every other Get Smart agency do all day? Can’t almost the entire thing be cardboard boxed up and sent home. [ … ]