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Things Fall Apart\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\u201cThings fall apart\u201dis an apt\u00a0sub-title\u00a0for historians to apply to the\u00a0first half of the 21st century. The phrase properly describes the collapse of the domestic and foreign policy of the United States. Further, it also is appropriate to describe the happenings in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.<\/p>\n

\"freedom15\"Things fall apart describes the\u00a0economy of every developed nation and the balance of power that the world has known since the end of World War II.<\/p>\n

The powers that be have lost control. After almost a century of playing the Wizard of Oz, the curtain is disintegrating. Institutions to ensure control, stability and prosperity are failing. People and markets were\u00a0not to be trusted and most of these institutions were established to protect against such freedom. Bureaucrats, central planners and big governments were to be the answers for a better world.<\/p>\n

The damage of nearly a century of this nonsense is suddenly becoming evident. Things fall apart is characterized by institutions that no longer are trusted or believed in. Few institutions are seen to work and when they do they are increasingly seen as favoring the elites at the expense of the masses. No institution is under greater scrutiny\u00a0as the cloak of wisdom is being destroyed by the hard facts of reality is that of central banking, the corner piece of socialism even at the height of\u00a0the Thatcher\u2013Reagan movement back toward markets.\u00a0The Daily Bell<\/a>\u00a0writes about the US Federal Reserve, although other central banks are incurring similar doubts and distrust:<\/p>\n

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Things Fall Apart Around Janet Yellen<\/h3>\n
By Daily Bell Staff \u2013 October 16, 2015<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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\"yellen7Fed policymakers downplay divisions on U.S. rate hike \u2026 Federal Reserve policymakers are not as divided as it may appear and are generally operating under the same framework for determining when to raise interest rates, one Fed official said on Thursday, while another said the differences of opinion reflect the countervailing economic data. Many Fed watchers are exasperated by the mixed messages from the U.S. central bank in recent weeks. Fed Chair Janet Yellen and other officials have said they expect a rate hike will be needed by the end of this year, but two Fed governors this week urged caution. \u2013\u00a0Reuters<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Things Fall Apart\u00a0 \u201cThings fall apart\u201dis an apt\u00a0sub-title\u00a0for historians to apply to the\u00a0first half of the 21st century. The phrase properly describes the collapse of the domestic and foreign policy of the United States. Further, it also is appropriate to describe the happenings in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Things fall apart describes the\u00a0economy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,7],"tags":[34,10189,124,8473,150,2299,10188,281,303,305,522,4204,827],"class_list":["post-13786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-asia","tag-big-government","tag-central-banks","tag-central-planners","tag-collapse","tag-control","tag-economic-noise","tag-europe","tag-fed","tag-federal-reserve","tag-middle-east","tag-powers-that-be","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13787,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786\/revisions\/13787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}