America
He’s Baaack
So………… 20/1/25 was Trump’s inauguration. It was also likely his apotheosis – the vertex of Trumpness, the culmination of years of struggle. It’s hard to believe it could get any more glorious for him than [more…]
DJM
Economics
The Cantillon Effect…. Or how printing money entrenches wealth and power at the expense of everyone else……..
It’s one of those wonderful explanatory ideas that is obscure in that very few people know what it is but outlandishly obvious and essentially undeniable once you hear it. When you’re going to print money [more…]
Politics
What would Thucydides say?
Hegel: “What experience and history teach us is this, that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, nor acted in accordance with lessons to be derived from it.” In the weeks after Louis-Napoléon [more…]
Economics
The Collapse of Prosperity in the West
OK Puffins. Shoulders back & full attention to the screen please. Some questions for you………….. Why are Western finances in such a dire state ? Why are so many people struggling just to exist ? [more…]
Politics
Teh Great Reset——–it never went away
As the embers of 2024 spit out their dying sparks, I sip a pleasantly agreeable glass of Clos Marsalette 2014 Pessac, & ponder………….Just what were the important news stories of this year? I’m sure most [more…]
Politics
They’re back (but they never went away)…………
It feels like only yesterday when the global elite nearly succeeded in dragging us into their dystopian narrative, all for the sake of a so-called health emergency that was all about about power rather than [more…]
Politics
Of Squirrels, Unicorns, Electricity Storage & Flywheels, Part Two
As per Wiki : A flywheel is a mechanical device that uses the conservation of angular momentum to store rotational energy, a form of kinetic energy proportional to the product of its moment of inertia and the [more…]
Democracy
The last dance for democracy?
Let’s examine the raw, pulsating heart of today’s governance crises in the West. Populist movements, those so-called ‘disruptors’ of the status quo, aren’t just random eruptions of public discontent; they are the inevitable backlash against [more…]
America
Decline & Fall
The final stage of a great power’s decline is often marked by a shift towards finance-driven capitalism. In the 1980s and ’90s, finance-driven capitalism was touted as the future of economic prosperity. However, this narrative [more…]