Ruminations

Behind the screen

Category: Economics

  • Same Oligarchs, Different Accent

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    The Russian Mirror “We are being de-modernized.”— Russian lawyer, 1990s, as quoted by Catherine Austin Fitts Series Context This article is part of the “In a Stranger Land” series. It should be read alongside: I. The Horrifying Epiphany Open with CAF’s London conference account verbatim — the same small group, the same accounting firms, the…

  • Super-Governmental Organizations

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    Pseudopods of the Blob If only the lie were so easily ended. “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” — James Madison, Federalist No. 47, 1788 I.…

  • The Financialization Coup

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    The banquet of consequences is not fully served yet. “The process by which financial markets, financial institutions, and financial elites gain greater influence over economic policy and economic outcomes is not a side effect of capitalism. It is the replacement of capitalism.” — Gerald Epstein, Financialization and the World Economy, 2005 I. The Bait and…

  • The Apotheosis of the Dollar

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    A Derivative in Search of an Underlying Asset God has seen this particular mistake before. “Now we see why governments are inherently inflationary: because inflation is a powerful and subtle means for government acquisition of the public’s resources, a painless and all the more dangerous form of taxation.”— Murray Rothbard, What Has Government Done to…

  • The Digital Control Grid

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    Palantir Part 2: What the Infrastructure Is Actually For Stamping on the human face — forever “And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.” —…

  • War Is a Racket, Updated

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    The Prohibition/Monetization Mechanism from United Fruit to Ozempic “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service… I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues. I…

  • The Real Replacement

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    How Three Price Floors Are Being Pulled Simultaneously — and What Comes After “Bad Human!” “The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play.” — Arthur C. Clarke, 1966 “The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” — Margaret Sanger, 1920…

  • The United States of Palantir

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    How Modern Pharaoh Built His Granaries Without Storing Any Grain No soup for you!  And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth. Genesis 47:15 (KJV)…

  • A Misallocation of Capital

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    The $1.1 Trillion Bet That May Never Turn On Part Two of The Future of AI series. Part One: “Beyond Silicon: Toward Living, Evolving, Self-Healing Computation” (Dissolution Too, Chapter 11, April 2026) Part One: The Scale of the Bet In February 2026, the largest single month of startup funding ever recorded produced $189 billion in…

  • The Real Burden of Government

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    What the Lapps Knew That We’ve Forgotten We’re from the government and we’re here to help. I. Eight Hundred Years of the Same Racket Somewhere in the Arctic interior of what we now call northern Finland, sometime in the winter of 1240, a Sámi family broke camp and moved their reindeer herd south along a…