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Why Trade Wars Ignite and Why They're Spreading
The monetary distortions, imbalances and perverse incentives are finally bearing fruit: trade wars.What ignites trade wars? The oft-cited sources include unfair trade practices and big trade deficits....
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What Do We Know About Syria? Next to Nothing
Anyone accepting "facts" or narratives from any interested party is being played.About the only "fact" the public knows with any verifiable certainty about Syria is that much of that nation is in...
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Our Strange Attraction to Self-Destructive Behaviors, Choices and Incentives
Self-destruction isn't a bug, it's a feature of our socio-economic system.The gravitational pull of self-destructive behaviors, choices and incentives is scale-invariant, meaning that we can discern...
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The War between Public Pensioners and Tax Donkeys Is Heating Up
The migration is only beginning, but that's only half the story.You know it's serious when the newspaper of record finally reports it: A $76,000 Monthly Pension: Why States and Cities Are Short on Cash...
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Connecting the Dots of Big Data, Soaring Corporate Profits and Trade Wars
It's self-evident that we cannot possibly understand trade, soaring corporate profits, Facebook's data collection or the economy without understanding the core role played by Big Data in reaping...
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How Far Down the Big Data/'Psychographic Microtargeting' Rabbit Hole Do You...
Anyone claiming they are impervious to this sort of analysis and delivery of "content" is deluding themselves.Maybe you've seen a notice like this when you log into your Facebook account:did you read...
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The Blowback Against Facebook, Google and Amazon Is Just Beginning
This is how we end up with a neofeudal society that benefits the Protected Few at the expense of the powerless, exploited Many.Blow-out earnings from Facebook and Amazon have cheered Wall Street, but...
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The Cosby Status Quo: A Facade of Wholesomeness Masks Feudal Exploitation
In America's feudal society/economy, there are two systems of "justice".The conviction of Bill Cosby for sexual exploitation/assault serves as a useful metaphor for our entire status quo, which...
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What Lies Beyond Capitalism and Socialism?
The status quo, in all its various forms, is dominated by incentives that strengthen the centralization of wealth and power.As longtime readers know, my work aims to 1) explain why the status quo --...
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Taking the Pulse of a Weakening Economy
Corporate buybacks provide the key analogy for the economy as a whole.Central banks have been running a grand experiment for 9 years, and now we're about to find out if it succeeds or fails. For 9...
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Before You Tell Me What You "Know," Tell Me Your Sources
We can no longer trust data and conclusions being published as impartial by institutions that were once trustworthy.When someone says they "know" what's happening on the ground in Syria, how can we...
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How Safe Are We? Our Blindness to Systemic Dangers
How do we explain our obsession with relatively low risk dangers and our collective blindness to manufactured/marketed scourges that kill tens of thousands of people annually?If you've bought a new...
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Market Complacency / Euphoria
Fortunately for Bulls, none of this matters.A relatively reliable measure of complacency/euphoria in the stock market just hit levels last seen in late January, just before stocks reversed in a massive...
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U.S. Healthcare Isn't Broken--It's Fixed
Healthcare/sickcare will bankrupt the nation by itself.If you want to understand why the U.S. healthcare system is bankrupt, financially, morally and politically, then start with this representative...
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Sustainability Boils Down to Scale
Only small scale systems can sustainably impose "skin in the game"-- consequences, accountability and oversight.Several conversations I had at the recent Peak Prosperity conference in Sonoma, CA...
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Our Economy Is Failing Our Society
If we want to extend the opportunities for positive social roles to everyone, we have to change the way money is created and distributed in our economy.One of the most unrecognized dynamics of our era...
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The Next Recession Will Be Devastatingly Non-Linear
The acceleration of non-linear consequences will surprise the brainwashed, loving-their-servitude mainstream media.Linear correlations are intuitive: if GDP declines 2% in the next recession, and...
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America 2018: Dicier by the Day
Scrape all this putrid excrescence off and we're left with a non-fantasy reality: everything is getting dicier by the day. If we look beneath the cheery chatter of the financial media and the...
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How Systems Collapse
This is how systems collapse: faith in the visible surface of abundance reigns supreme, and the fragility of the buffers goes unnoticed.I often discuss systems and systemic collapse, and I've drawn up...
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Why the Eurozone and the Euro Are Both Doomed
Papering over the structural imbalances in the Eurozone with endless bailouts will not resolve the fundamental asymmetries.Beneath the permanent whatever it takes "rescue" by the European Central Bank...
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