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Signals Flashing

Train Wreck Coming

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Empires rise and empires fall. We're living during one of those transitions which have occurred many times before. The loss of the dominance of the US dollar is happening before our eyes as American arrogance, aggression, and bullying has turned much of the world away from the US/west and toward the evolving "fair world" multipolar order. There are many signals flashing, giving warning, and it is time to think ahead and prepare for the coming storm.
This chart looks back 1400 years and charts the estimated relative supremacy of the great empires. Of note: the blue American A-frame with a peak around 1955, and the meteoric rise of red China.

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Album of the Week - 11-12-22

Afternoon folks!

This week we've got some excellent Chicago blues with Magic Sam and another album by a friend of his, Luther Allison. There's a bunch of other blues rock and rock with Hot Tuna (a double, live album), Ten Years After, most of Stone The Crows first album, the tragically under-appreciated Jesse Ed Davis, Van Morrison, Steeleye Span and finishing it off with a large anthology of The Easybeats who are mostly known in the U.S. for their hit "Friday On My Mind."

Enjoy!

The Decline and Fall of the Ultra-Wealthy Tech Bro's

By now you've probably heard about all of the problems at Twitter, and how Elon Musk is facing a financial catastrophe. However, that's just the part of the iceberg that the ultra-wealthy Titanic hit that is visible. Most of the damage is below the surface.
Be prepared to shed a few tears for ultra-wealthy a**holes having to sell their second super-yacht.

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