{"id":187,"date":"2023-02-18T17:08:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T17:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/?p=187"},"modified":"2023-02-18T17:08:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T17:08:53","slug":"a-tower-of-babel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"A Tower of Babel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Appropriate metaphor for the mountain of debt the central banks have created. Here $1 Trillion in stacks of $100 bills is visualized:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Visualing-a-Billion-and-a-Trillion-2.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"607\" src=\"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Visualing-a-Billion-and-a-Trillion-2.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Visualing-a-Billion-and-a-Trillion-2.webp 780w, https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Visualing-a-Billion-and-a-Trillion-2-300x233.webp 300w, https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Visualing-a-Billion-and-a-Trillion-2-768x598.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>US debt exceeds $31.5 Trillion. World debt exceeds $300 Trillion. They&#8217;re building a tower of fake money to heaven, and will reap the same fate as the Tower of Babel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appropriate metaphor for the mountain of debt the central banks have created. Here $1 Trillion in stacks of $100 bills is visualized: US debt exceeds $31.5 Trillion. World debt exceeds $300 Trillion. They&#8217;re building a tower of fake money to heaven, and will reap the same fate as the Tower of Babel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}