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Your Guide to the New Economy

Congratulations! You've spent the last 14 years or so since the Global Financial Crisis getting up to speed on all the financial lingo, and now you can finally wrap your mind around the reality inversion bubble and explain the intricacies of the ratings game and bore...

Everything is Connected!

Did you ever see Connections? It was a late-1970s' British TV series hosted by author and historian James Burke, and it was devoted to exploring "the various paths of how technological change happens and the social effects of these changes on Western society." Each...

Episode 408 – 9/11 Truth: Lessons Learned?

Episode 408 – 9/11 Truth: Lessons Learned?

Today, there's an entire generation who have grown up in the shadow of the towers. Who have never known a world that was not haunted by the hobgoblin of terrorism. Who have never thought twice about giving up the freedoms they barely knew they had in the name of...

September Open Thread

So, here we are. Another month, another open thread. And, as always, there's a lot to discuss. Perhaps you want to discuss the truckie blockade that wasn't. Or the right-on-queue new terror threat popping up in New Zealand. Or how to order your new Bovid-84 bot. Or...

The Year Ahead – Part 1: Currency

I don't need to tell you that we are living through world-historical times right now. The frequency of world-changing events is accelerating even as the impact of these events on our day-to-day lives is increasing. As Lenin rightly observed: "There are decades where...

Episode 390 – Bretton Woods 2.0

Episode 390 – Bretton Woods 2.0

Do you know what it means when the Managing Director of the IMF warns of a "new Bretton Woods moment?" How about when the head of the BIS revels in the total surveillance power that digital currencies will afford the central bankers? Well, you're about to. Don't miss...