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The Coming Fury of an Angry America
The Coming Fury of an Angry America
A tiny part of a tiny part of the population of the earth will set the terms for the future of all humans. A tiny part that is broken, spent out, and increasingly disillusioned. That sliver of humanity is the broken, spent out, and increasingly disillusioned American middle class, burdened with the task of spending all America out of catastrophe. When they break under the weight of desperate impossibility, how will the heartlands good citizens react, and what will they do?
Why is Lloyd Blankfein
Why is Lloyd Blankfein
Lloyd Blankfein is the name of the human who is the Chief Executive Officer (the big man) of the global finance corporation called Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs is one of history's most successful human endeavours, a legal set of contracts that has accumulated over a trillion dollars in wealth. As CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein is an agent of the corporation - the top agent - and so another set of legal contracts rewards him with a share of that wealth in return for his agency service. His share amounted to about 65 million USD's in 2007.
Food is Too Cheap
Food is Too Cheap
The single greatest challenge facing our modern economic food chain is the insanely unnatural cost of food to the consumer, making the simple and necessary act of eating dependent on food that is almost free. The global edifice of cheap food rests on the volatility of a single input; the exponentially depleting supply of easy, cheap oil. We are gorging ourselves at the $1.99 all-you-can-eat oil buffet. Food is too cheap, a "correction" is coming, and there is not a damn thing anybody can do about it.
Meltdown: or How I learned To Stop Worrying and Embrace the Debt
Meltdown: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying
and Embrace The Debt
America is in debt because it wants to be. Unlike any other country in the world, America has believed for a generation that its debt was the fountainhead of its power, the source of its wealth and excess. America has deliberately and with full intent run deficits and financed them through debt, a veritable ATM of cash with which it buys its economic hegemony, and makes payments on its future. It’s hard to solve a problem that isn’t one, to the blind that will not see.
Read more: Meltdown: or How I learned To Stop Worrying and Embrace the Debt
Freud's Bastards
Freud's Bastards
While there is no doubt that democracy and capitalism have been the twin pillars of our exponential progress over the last one hundred years, little is known about the origins of the alchemy that gave them their historical momentum. At the dawn of the twentieth century, when the globe spanning western world was careening towards the war to end all wars, a quiet thinking was born amongst the right people, at the right place, and at the right time in history.