Accomplished Scalawags
‘The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.’
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Prepare for Liftoff
In order to avoid a debt debacle, the new tech would have to increase productivity…not just add complexity and novelty. Will AI do that? So far, there is no sign of it.
Cash in the bank
You spend more than you can afford for too long and pretty soon it’s out of your control. Then, lenders — sensing a train wreck — want more interest to protect themselves. And you can’t go on.
Guardians of Empire
It’s not likely to get better before it gets worse. Treasury bond yields bottomed in 2020. They’ve been going up since then and are now at levels last seen just before the GFC.
Big Fat Financial Blow Up
DOGE failed to make a dent in federal deficits. With the last conservative in Congress out of the way, what’s to keep the Big Man’s Big Government from its Big Spending rendezvous with a big blow up?
A new range war
“How could we only get three calves from 30 cows” was the lead question.
