Map: All the Solid Land in the Solar System
Earth actually possesses the largest solid surface area in the solar system
The Only Realistic Way out of This Mess
They will print the money
Grant Williams: Heading for Extreme Outcomes, Monetary Reset
“The ingredients that you needed for a reset of the monetary system… were basically social unrest, political unrest, and financial unrest”
Image: Row Boat in Stormy Seas
19th Century Dutch artist Cornelis Springer (1817-1891)
How the Tech Giants Make Their Billions
The four biggest tech companies in the US (Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet) are now worth more than all publicly listed stocks in Japan combined
Image: Twitter at the Gates of Troy
Via the great Michael P. Rameriz
Lyn Alden: We’re Seeing World War II Era Monetary Policy
Gold has been outperforming the S&P 500 since 2018
George Friedman: Crisis in Europe
Why independence and conflict are intertwined
The Trade Deficit Is at the Heart of America’s Financialization
In the last 45 years, the US trade deficit was roughly 150 times larger than the trade surplus it amassed during all previous American history.
Map: The Spread of the Black Death from 1320 to 1353 AD
Best know for killing roughly a third of Europeans at the time, the plague also likely killed a similar number in present day China