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Titian The rape of Europe <\/b>1560-62<\/center><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It took me a while to decide which word(s) best define the past year and the next one, but I think this is pretty much it. 2018 was chaotic more than anything else, and that chaos will give rise to mayhem in 2019.<\/p>\n

What I think is striking is that this is true across the board, in all walks of life so to speak. In finance, in politics, in energy markets, in ecological matters, and perhaps most of all in the ways all these topics are being covered by what once were trusted media.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to have to come back to all these topics separately, so it\u2019s promising to be a very busy holiday season, but it\u2019s also good to try and put them together in one place, if only to show how interconnected everything is. And how futile it is to look at the economy without seeing its connection to energy flows and ecosystems. And vice versa.<\/p>\n

In finance and economics, we\u2019ve seen an avalanche of falling numbers recently, in stock prices, bond prices, housing, across the globe, and obviously that evokes a lot of comments in the financial press. But that press, and bankers investors on their own, still talk about markets.<\/p>\n

However, as I wrote in April 2018, if there is no price discovery, and there isn\u2019t, there ARE NO markets<\/a>, and it would be good and beneficial if many more people absorb that simple reality. Many more so-called traders and investors would be a start, but by no means enough. Lots more people who have nothing to do with the \u2018markets\u2019 should understand why there is no such thing anymore.<\/p>\n

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