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The Big Squeeze, Part 3: The Quiet Rebellion: Civil Disobedience, Local Markets, and Debt Erasure

The Big Squeeze, Part 3: The Quiet Rebellion: Civil Disobedience, Local Markets, and Debt Erasure

I am pleased to present Part 3 of a uniquely clear-sighted three-part series by frequent contributor Zeus Y. on the consequences of our corrupt financial-political Status Quo being exploited by a parasitic Financial Elite.Part III: The Quiet Rebellion:…

The Big Squeeze, Part 2: Abused Fundamentals and Fake Markets: How They Play Out

The Big Squeeze, Part 2: Abused Fundamentals and Fake Markets: How They Play Out

I am pleased to present Part 2 of a uniquely clear-sighted three-part series by frequent contributor Zeus Y. on the consequences of our corrupt financial-political Status Quo being exploited by a parasitic Financial Elite.Part II: Abused Fundamentals a…

The Big Squeeze: Predicting the Effects of Savings Extortion and Abuse of the Middle Class

The Big Squeeze: Predicting the Effects of Savings Extortion and Abuse of the Middle Class

I am pleased to present a uniquely clear-sighted three-part series by frequent contributor Zeus Y. on the consequences of our corrupt financial-political Status Quo being exploited by a rapacious Financial Elite.Part I: Oligarchy Becomes Anarchy Introd…

Staying Fit (at almost any) Age

Staying Fit (at almost any) Age

Dr. “Ishabaka” shares some tips on staying fit ands maintaining motivation.Becoming fit and eating healthy food are the best preventative tools we have within our own control. One reason fitness and healthy cooking play such big parts on this site is t…

The Kubler-Ross Model: Denial, Acceptance and Renewal in America

The Kubler-Ross Model: Denial, Acceptance and Renewal in America

Today we offer a guest essay by correspondent Eric A. which applies the Kubler-Ross model to America’s current state of denial and wishful thinking.Reading Charles Hugh Smith’s “Cry in the Wilderness” for Individual Solutions ( As Public Policy F…

Conserving Doomed Systems (or, why we’re staying on the Titanic)

Conserving Doomed Systems (or, why we’re staying on the Titanic)

The classic analogy of the Titanic continues to offer up key insights into our national preference for self-destruction.It seems few readers of my series on the fiscal shipwreck known as Social Security grasped my primary point, which was the need for …

Ook and Mook Invent Money, Wealth and Taoism

Ook and Mook Invent Money, Wealth and Taoism

Stone Age geniuses Ook and Mook invent money, wealth and Taoism in one fell swoop.Demonstrating Humankind’s remarkable ingenuity with financial and philosophical innovation, Non Sequitur’s Stone Age geniuses Ook and Mook invent money, wealth and Taoism…

China’s Runaway Chariot

China’s Runaway Chariot

China’s authorities may have lost the ability to control the increasingly complex and opaque Chinese economy.China’s economy appears to have reached a critical threshold of complexity and obscurity that renders it uncontrollable. Recent reports of surg…

China’s Runaway Chariot

China’s Runaway Chariot

China’s authorities may have lost the ability to control the increasingly complex and opaque Chinese economy.China’s economy appears to have reached a critical threshold of complexity and obscurity that renders it uncontrollable. Recent reports of surg…

As Public Policy Fixes Are Impossible, Focus on Individual Solutions

As Public Policy Fixes Are Impossible, Focus on Individual Solutions

Divisive politics and the Tyranny of the Majority guarantee policy fixes will fail or be symbolic only.Though I am drawn to public policy questions, I always regret proposing any policy fixes. Why? For a number of reasons:1. It’s safer and easier to be…

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