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Extremes Become More Extreme, Then Revert to the Mean
A fatal bout of runaway instability becomes inevitable when "extraordinary emergency measures" become permanently essential to keep the bubbles from…
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Is Digitization Catastrophic for Civilization?
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Is Placing a Wager in a Casino an "Investment"?
Producing quality goods that aren't addictive or obsoleted in a few years--there's no money in that, fool. Get real. You want to get rich, "invest" in a…
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Catch-20: The 20 Dynamics That Will Shape the Next Decade
From low-Earth orbit, we see only the mighty sprawl of immense power. The internal gearing driving contradictory dynamics is buried beneath the grandeur…
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What If Tech, the Market and the State Are No Longer Solutions?
If we study the problems outside the force-field of mythological beliefs, we find that there are no systemic solutions, there are only partial, local…
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Is the World Becoming Uninsurable?
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The Easy Credit, High Interest Rate Swindle
When 21% interest rate credit cards are the only thing keeping the lid on awakening and revolt, that's not a sustainable fix.
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I Quit! The Tsunami of Burnout Few See
That's the problem with deploying play-acting as "solutions:" play-acting doesn't actually fix the problems at the source, it simply lets the problems…
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High Interest Rates Are Healthy, Low Rates Are Poison
The status quo has it backwards: low rates are now essential to prop up the wreckage left from previous doses of default and cascading losses.
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Six Dynamics That Will Shape Our Future
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The System's Self-Destruct Sequence Cannot Be Turned Off
The artificial hill of pottery shards is puny and localized; the consewuences of our system will bring down the system in ways the system is completely…
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