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The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025
The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. The Disruptor: William Rees Knows How to Save the World Slow down or die (degrowth, collapse, strategy) Collapse and the Consensus Trance What Happens After Humans Go Extinct How Water Shapes Our […]
The top 10% are the main beneficiaries of globalization, says study
The top 10% are the main beneficiaries of globalization, says study Collinearity of globalization indicators. Credit: The Journal of Economic Inequality (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s10888-023-09593-7 The income of many people around the world has considerably increased due to the economic globalization of the last 50 years. However, these income gains are unevenly distributed. A study by Dr. Valentin […]
Video: Canadians Plunged Into Poverty. Can’t Afford to Eat! Sign of Major Economic Collapse
Video: Canadians Plunged Into Poverty. Can’t Afford to Eat! Sign of Major Economic Collapse This video vividly describes economic collapse and the plight of poverty in Canada, without however focussing on the underlying causes, nor the historical context. Remember the March 11, 2020 Lockdown. Destabilizing the social, political and economic structure of 190 sovereign countries cannot constitute […]
Wealth Gap And The Road To Serfdom
Wealth Gap And The Road To Serfdom One of the most interesting conundrums is the surging wealth gap in America. Despite two of the largest bull markets in history since 1980, most Americans struggle with making ends meet and are unprepared for retirement. Such a reality starkly differs from the belief that rising asset prices […]
Introduction to Power by Richard Heinberg
Introduction to Power by Richard Heinberg Richard Heinberg’s latest title, Power is an exploration of humanity’s power over nature and the power of some people over others. Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and the ability to harness energy sources — most significantly, fossil fuels. Today, we […]
Can Any Nation-State Survive the Era of Inequality and Scarcity?
Can Any Nation-State Survive the Era of Inequality and Scarcity? We have an extraordinary opportunity to transform our unsustainable “waste is growth” economy and toxic inequality to sustainable systems that optimize well-being rather than collapse. The possibility that the United States could fragment is no longer a marginalized topic. Maps displaying various post-U.S. regional configurations accompany […]
Why is the world protesting so much? A new study claims to have some answers.
Why is the world protesting so much? A new study claims to have some answers. Activists wearing cutouts of world leaders’ faces outside the COP26 summit on Nov. 2 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Peter Summers/Getty Images) Are we in a historic age of protest? A new study released Thursday that looked at demonstrations between 2006 and 2020 found that […]
The Path to a Livable Future Cannot be the Path We’re On
The Path to a Livable Future Cannot be the Path We’re On Stan Cox has pulled off quite a feat with his latest book The Path to a Livable Future: A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic. In a relaxed, inviting style, Cox sets unorthodox ideas in a persuasive human and environmental […]
5 Signs a Civilization is About to Fail
5 Signs a Civilization is About to Fail
Inequality Could Be Addressed By Removing Our Options
Inequality Could Be Addressed By Removing Our Options Recently I stumbled upon an interesting and informative YouTube video on the environment that gives information on both sides of the question, “is there a climate change crisis?” A fella who has studied this subject indicated there is not and what we are being told by many […]
I Now Track the Most Important Measure of the Fed’s Economy: the “Wealth Effect” and How it Impacts Americans Individually
I Now Track the Most Important Measure of the Fed’s Economy: the “Wealth Effect” and How it Impacts Americans Individually The Fed provides the data quarterly, I dissect it at the stunning per-capita level. The Federal Reserve is pursuing monetary policies that are explicitly designed to inflate asset prices. The rationalization is that ballooning asset […]
Powell, Do You Even Know What The Economy Is?
Powell, Do You Even Know What The Economy Is? To Clarify, Main Street Is Not Wall Street After all the destructive policies we have seen coming out of the Eccles Building, it may be time to ask Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, “Do you even know what the economy is?” All the easing and stimulus has […]
Instability
Instability In every century the same thing happens at one point or another. Society loses the plot and gets caught up in a mania, a grandiose exercise in self delusion. It can be political, it can be religious, and yes it can be economic. Sometimes these manias are confined to regions or small groups of […]
Dalio- The United States Is At A Tipping Point That Could Lead To Revolution Or Civil War
Dalio: The United States Is At A Tipping Point That Could Lead To Revolution Or Civil War It was almost exactly ten years ago that we first predicted that the Fed’s “moronic” QE which has sparked an unprecedented class, income and wealth divide, “positions US society one step closer to civil war if not worse.” […]
