Tag: The Broken Circle
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So close yet so far
Brownstone continues to diagnose the problem perfectly, but misses badly on the prescription side. I appreciate the full Machiavellian diagnosis, focusing HEAVILY on the lockdowns and ballgags, less on the needles. As I’ve been tiresomely and pointlessly repeating, the needles were only a few moments of pain. The rest of it was two full years…
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QT, KYC, KYW
I’ve been having schadenfreudisch fun watching various accounts of Budweiser’s idiocy. Most people are focusing on the specific politics, but the problem is simpler. QE made it possible to ignore the BASIC RULES OF BUSINESS. Know your customers. Keep your customers. Know your workers. Keep your workers. In the era of profit, successful businesses followed…
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Expertly gaming the algo
If you think you’re gaming the system, beware. There’s always somebody who games better than you! Via Reddit, dozens of TikTok livestreamers are sitting on the sidewalk in one highway underpass. Each is using the same type of circle light, and each is sitting on a low platform. Each is arranged so her camera can’t…
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QT is starting to make a difference!
Via DailyMail, the top tech monster companies are firing “diversity” loonies and cutting out “DEI” departments. This is an automatic result of the shutoff of free counterfeit. When business demons are subsidized by the stock demons, they will happily do demonic shit. When business demons are constrained by PROFIT, they are forced against their satanic…
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Bureaucratic genes and epigenes
I read and understood Parkinson 50 years ago, and haven’t yet seen any contrary evidence. In fact the real situation is vastly worse now than when he was writing. My usual question is: Given that criminal agencies and organizations CAN’T AND WON’T be deleted, how do we set up competing forces? My usual answer is…
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Reprint on pay vs value
Linked in previous item, worth a reprint. From 2018. = = = = = START REPRINT: Yet another proposal to counteract big money in politics: At their heart, political campaigns are no different than any other organization: they need to raise revenues and then spend it to meet their objectives. Organizations are responsive to who…
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Never hear the question
Random observation connected to my long-lasting theme on government as a business. Real businesses, at least when seeking profit, try to keep existing customers and bring back missing customers. Now that QT is starting to restore the profit loop, we should see more of this attitude. Even before QT, online businesses routinely detect that I’ve…
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Even Trudeau?
Trudeau does one good thing in his miserable demonic life. A law banning ALL foreigners from buying property in Canada went into effect on Jan 1. Real populism is gradually percolating into governments and corporations now. Trump and Boris were fake populists, setting the cause back instead of forward. The NAZI “virus” genocide they started…
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Looking back to 2008
Now that Powell has amazingly turned OFF the counterfeit, I looked back at the start. I wrote a sequence of pieces in Sept 2008, trying to organize my thoughts about the theft, and concluding with a major essay. Recounting the sequence… In this piece I outlined the Sharia and Soviet alternatives to capitalism, but at…
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Reality = ∫(Demon)dt
Wolf has two great graphs today. The first is the total quantity of counterfeit “money” in the central bank, updated. It shows the sudden surge “justified” by the 2008 manufactured “crisis”, and the VASTLY LARGER surge “justified” by the VASTLY LARGER 2020 manufactured “crisis”. The 2022 turnaround is continuing without pause, and the demons are…
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Why 1907 needed scrip
Enid Buzz posted this ad from an Enid clothing store in 1907. On account of scarcity of currency reminds us that the Panic of 1907 was a huge but brief Innovative Disruption, sponsored by Innovative Disruptor Edison. Scrip was born in this depression, and resurrected in 1933 when FDR broke the banks to restore the…
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A clear view of exp vs linear
One basic fact about money is always understood by the plutocrats but never explained to the peasants. We hear inflation numbers or exchange rate numbers, and the influencers of “left” and “right” base their appeals on these fake numbers. Even the bitcoiners, who claim to be entirely outside government and banking, always treat official “inflation”…
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Booms and busts
An essayist at Medium gives us 12 quotes from Beat Generation philosopher Alan Watts. I read the piece to see if his selection was the same as mine. Nope, it was disjunct. He remembered and treasured the stuff that I had tossed aside as mystical drivel. I read Watts when I was about 14, and…
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When the S in ESG really meant something…
EnidBuzz featured the Failing company, and linked to a longer article at Okla Hist Soc. I always admired the deco architecture of the building, but had no real connection with the company or its drilling rigs. The commenters filled out the story. The company treated its workers well, and the founder’s family semi-retired into real…
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Price puzzle
There’s an odd conflict in the automatic assumptions of media about prices. Media assumes that everyone wants lower gas prices and food prices. At the same time, media assumes everyone wants higher house prices and stock prices. Polls agree that 3/4 of Americans want lower house prices, ESPECIALLY the younger generations. This makes EXTREMELY GOOD…
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