Category: Empire and Decline

Trump and Concentrated Wealth, a Doomsday Machine for Organized Labor and the American Middle Class

A wealth pump engineered in public transfers labor’s savings to the top through asset appreciation, pension buyouts, private credit, life insurer capture, and state guaranty funds. The remedy is antimonopoly plus a wealth tax.

American AI: The Race That Is Already Lost

No amount of American capital spending can beat the Chinese in artificial intelligence. A plain English primer on the prices, the chips, the credit, and who pays.

The Fall: A Short Story

The largest IPO in history was six weeks old when the sky began to fail. A short story in Ford Somerville Ford’s voice, set on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, the night the American AI operating layer went dark for the first time.

The Ruins: A Short Story

The Ruins short story by Scott Ortkiese. Friday, September 24, 2027, in the hours after the American operating layer has gone dark. A seventy year old writer in Houston keeps a Piketty ledger for his granddaughter in Boulder.

The Bailout Is Already Written: A Short Course on Private Credit, the AI Bubble, and the Life Insurance Trap Set for the American Taxpayer

How Apollo, Blackstone, KKR, and Ares bought the life insurance industry, financed the AI buildout with your annuity, and pre-wrote a 44-state taxpayer bailout.

Hey Governor Abbott, Don’t Fall for Musk’s Terafab Bamboozling of Texans: Here’s the real story, and it ain’t that pretty at all unless you’re part of the con

SpaceX’s own S-1 says Terafab has no binding commitments, no financial terms, and no obligation on Tesla or Intel to remain, before the Grimes County school abatements are countersigned.

Американский пузырь искусственного интеллекта лишён смысла. Каждый его участник это знает. И тем не менее он раздувается. Почему?

Комната, в которой одобряется сделка, это та же комната, в которой демонтируется американская империя.

The American AI Bubble Makes No Sense. Every Party to It Knows. It Is Happening Anyway. Why?

The room where the transaction is approved is also the room where the American empire is being dismantled.

Economic Statecraft: How the War Machine Replaced American Democracy

Nearly $200 billion for Ukraine, more for Israel and a confrontation with Iran sustain a donor, contractor and finance protection racket.

Небесный Мир Денег Дёргает За Нити Во Всех Трёх Ветвях Власти США, Объявляя Всех, С Кем Мы Должны Конкурировать, Изначально Злом

Деньги притягивают политиков так же, как мухи притягиваются к глазу дохлой собаки