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I really do get tired of reporting terrible news! I wouldn’t have to if the major media could cover these topics with any level of intelligence or honestly. But they don’t.

Right now, there is still vast room for inflation. The Fed is very much behind the curve at this point.

For years, certain elite voices have been trying to force a vegan diet on all of us, marketing their “impossible burgers”. This might soon become a reality.

Woke ideology is at war with profitability.

Where do we start by finding our way back to sanity? I would suggest reading every single one of Gilder’s books.

The systems of safety built up over decades will not protect people for much longer. We are headed to a world that restores the natural order of things.

It’s remarkable to consider the possibility that the stagflation could create the largest restructuring of American enterprise in our lifetimes.

How to distract people from being furious with shocked anger over inflation? Find something else that distracts people. Disease seems always to fit the bill these days.

What a world: load defaults amid inflation and falling financials! No one is prepared for what this reality could mean for American life.

This housing bust will not look like the last one. It will be an industry depression, plus inflation. That’s enough to really play with one’s mind.

When food shortages hit and the money keeps losing value, public anger will rise to levels we’ve not seen in our lifetimes. The privileged censors who have relied on inflated numbers for years are not going to fare well.

This is an extremely dangerous mix, so much so that it is hard to find historical examples. Our moral sense is getting dulled by the day.

There will be more epic failures of particular products and companies. And there should be. And yet, the core technology is sound and there are plenty of products out there that are doing it right.

Here we are now with a preventable inflation pandemic and the realization that we have to learn to live with inflation. Soon we’ll realize that we have to live with recession at the same time.

Let’s just presume that we are in for the long haul here. Where does the smart money go? The months and years ahead will reward those who think for the long term.

The American ruling class did this. They took a relatively healthy and completely fixable economic environment and turned it into a disaster.

The issue of failing plans from elites has vexed rulers from time immemorial. We live in such times today, arguably on a larger global basis than ever.

Governments Giveth and Taketh Away

The regulators have decided to ignore the big players, while punishing the small ones. When the investigations start over this entire fiasco, it is going to be something spectacular to watch.

The new normal includes sporadic and seemingly random shortages in essential goods. The worst thing about all of this: we have all been conditioned to be used to it.

The damage is done already but it is wise to be aware now of what is possible. Your smartphone is not necessarily your friend.

It was not supposed to be this way. But the centralization and betrayal of the founding principles made it so.

Spring has sprung, the flowers look sweet, and people are glad for a return to normalcy, no matter how degraded it is relative to three years ago.