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Here’s Why Housing Is Unaffordable for the Bottom 90%

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9/14/2023

Reinventing Democracy

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9/11/2023

We’re Living in a Neofeudal Bubble

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9/8/2023

Airbnb Has Destroyed America’s Resort Towns

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9/1/2023

Neither Comply Nor Resist

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8/30/2023

The Problem Isn’t a Housing Shortage, It’s the Concentration of Ownership by the Wealthy

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8/25/2023

No, Central Banks Won’t Save Us This Time

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8/22/2023

I Have a Very Bad Feeling About This

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8/21/2023

The Peculiar Unreality of Spectacle

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8/18/2023

2021 to 2024: From ‘Revenge’ Splurging To Forced Frugality

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8/16/2023

Why Rome Collapsed: Lessons for the Present

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8/14/2023

I’m Not Really Enjoying the Show

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8/11/2023

Fooled by What We Measure, Enlightened by What We Don’t Measure

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8/9/2023

The Wealthy Are Not Like You and Me–Our Terminally Stratified Society

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8/5/2023

Even the Aliens Are Boring

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8/3/2023

Lessons from the Unraveling of the Roman Empire: Simplification, Localization

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8/2/2023

All Bubbles Pop

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7/31/2023

I Keep Changing Channels But It’s Still the Same Program

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7/28/2023

Everyone’s Talking About Currencies: 21 Points

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7/25/2023

Lessons From the Great Depression

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7/21/2023

The Two Causes of the Coming Great Depression

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7/19/2023

Without Inflation, the Status Quo Collapses; With Hot Inflation, It Also Collapses

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7/13/2023

All Dreams End: The Collapse of Keynesian Economics

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7/10/2023

Who Wins and Who Loses in a Deep Global Recession?

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7/5/2023

The Make-or-Break Fork in the Road Ahead

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7/3/2023

Breaking/Broken News You Might Have Missed

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6/30/2023

The Corruption of POTUS, SCOTUS and SCROTUS

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6/27/2023

2023-2030: Artifice Vs. Doom-Loops

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6/26/2023

This Is Why Nobody Will Do Anything Until It’s Too Late

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6/15/2023

12 Ways To Cut the Chains of Financial Serfdom

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6/10/2023

Look Around and What Do You See? Social Defeat

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6/9/2023

What Happens When the Competent Opt Out?

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6/6/2023

A Nation of Junkies: The Empty Future of a Stimulus-Speculation Economy

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6/3/2023

Higher Unemployment Won’t Stop Wages from Rising

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6/1/2023

Wages Going Up for Good: Catch-Up and Blowback

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5/26/2023

Are You Ready For a Real Recession?

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5/24/2023

2023: Echoes of 1973

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5/22/2023

How Many Dominoes Must Topple Before One Falls on Us?

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5/19/2023

What If AI Is Only a Cost and Not a Profit Bonanza?

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5/17/2023

Our Two Deep States, One Public, One Private

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5/15/2023

Doom Loops Are Multiplying

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5/12/2023

Once Trust Has Been Lost, There’s No Going Back

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5/10/2023

What If the Fed Has Lost Control?

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5/5/2023

Crystal Balls, Soothsayers, and AI, Oh My!

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5/3/2023

What If the Whole Shebang Unravels?

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4/28/2023

America’s Social Contract Is Broken

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4/26/2023

The Housing Bubble: Owners Trapped by Low-Rate Mortgages, Buyers Thwarted by High-Rate Mortgages

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4/19/2023

This Housing Bubble Is Different: It’s Much More Precarious

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4/15/2023

Why Interest Rates Are Not Going Back to Zero

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4/7/2023

Here’s How We’ll Have Labor Shortages and High Unemployment at the Same Time

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4/5/2023