Category: Markets and Finance

South Korea’s Donghak Ants in a Burning House

A Stock Market Frenzy and the Financialized Endgame Every Western Economy Should Fear, Instead of Intentionally Spreading to Asia

The Fall

The largest IPO in history was six weeks old when the sky began to fail. Every fact is real. The only thing I invented was the day.

AI IPOs: Lost in Space

How Three Trillion-Dollar IPOs Are Extracting the Retirement Savings of a U.S. Population Too Indebted, Too Illiterate, and Too Conscripted to Refuse

Gone Pecans: How three firms, twenty-three banks, and one sovereign fund engineered the end of the American individual

Going, going, gone. . .

Private Credit Is the New Subprime, and the Fed Is Watching the Door

Private Credit Is the New Subprime, and the Fed Is Watching the Door

The Aluminum Pearl Harbor: Trump and Netanyahu Sank America’s Industrial Fleet

A Warning to Those Still Waiting for the Bill to Arrive

Sheep on a Chain: How Berkshire, BlackRock, and Vanguard Own the Agencies That Rate Their World

They’ll tell them how to rate their deals.

Mini-Me Without a Plan: Don’t Worry, the Markets Will Be Just Fine

Wall Street and geopolitical analysts turn stalled peace talks, a constrained Hormuz, and Mag 7 earnings into rival narratives of certainty.

Americans, Your World Just Got More Expensive and More Dangerous

The global order America built is collapsing, and nobody in Washington will tell you what replaces it or what it will cost you.

The Next Great Depression Is Already Here

How two cornered script readers and a captured democracy blew up the world economy, and why there is no exit from what follows.