COVID-19 Pandemic Posts
Virus Z: A Thought Experiment
July 1, 2021
Next Up: Global Depression February 19, 2021
Vaccines--Too Little, Too Late? November 18, 2020
U.S. Healthcare Is Unraveling November 17, 2020
Don't Blame Covid: The Economy is Imploding from Over-Capacity and Corrupt Cartels November 16, 2020
Prepare for Winter November 14, 2020
Everything You Don't Want to Know About Covid Vaccines (Because You Can't Be Bullish Anymore) November 11, 2020
How Systems Collapse: Reaping What We've Sown October 27, 2020
Next Up: Global Depression October 26, 2020
Things Change October 2, 2020
The Bogus "Recovery," Stress and Burnout August 5, 2020
A Vaccine May Not Be the "Magical Cure" Everyone Anticipates August 3, 2020
Why Does It Feel Like We're in "Life During Wartime"? July 27, 2020
Why the Unraveling Will Accelerate July 24, 2020
The Real Unemployment Rate is 21%--and Heading Higher July 20, 2020
Is Data Our New False Religion? June 23, 2020
Is the Pandemic Over and a V-Shaped Recovery Baked In? June 15, 2020
Unstoppable: The Greatest Depression and the Reverse Wealth Effect June 10, 2020
Global Crisis: the Convergence of Marx, Kafka, Orwell and Huxley June 8, 2020
What Lies Ahead: Destabilizing Social Stratification June 5, 2020
When Institutions Fail, Fragmentation and Decentralization Become Solutions June 4, 2020
The Post-Covid Economy Will Be Very Different From the Pre-Pandemic Bubble Economy June 3, 2020
Opting Out, American Style May 22, 2020
The Pandemic Gives Us Permission To Get What We Always Wanted May 21, 2020
The Destruction of Demand May 20, 2020
Our Fate Is Sealed, Vaccines Won't Matter: Four Long Cycles Align May 19, 2020
Consumer Spending Will Not Rebound--Here's Why May 18, 2020
Globalization and Financialization Are Dead, and so Is Everything That Depended on Them May 15, 2020
The Collapse of Main Street and Local Tax Revenues Cannot Be Reversed May 14, 2020
What the Pandemic Revealed: a Morally Bankrupt Culture May 13, 2020
The Way of the Tao Is Reversal May 12, 2020
The Outlines of a Better World Are Emerging May 8, 2020
Surviving 2020 #3: Plans A, B and C May 7, 2020
Surviving 2020 #2: 16 Suggestions May 6, 2020
Surviving 2020 #1: Bug-Out Bunkers, Taoism and the Warring States May 5, 2020
Our Inevitable Collapse: We Can't Save a Fragile Economy With Bailouts That Increase Fragility May 1, 2020
The Pandemic Is Deepening America's Many Divides April 30, 2020
With Superfluous Demand in Free-Fall, What's the Upside of Re-Opening a Small Business? April 28, 2020
The Crash Has Only Just Begun April 27, 2020
No, This Is Not Another 1929, 1973, 1987, 2000, or 2008 April 24, 2020
Here's Why the Economy Won't Recover--and No, It's Not Covid-19 or the Lockdown April 23, 2020
What's Collapsing Can't Be Saved: Our Fraudulent Economy April 22, 2020
False Reading: The Fed's Equities Light Is "Green" But the Economy Is Crashing April 21, 2020
Here We Go Again: When Bubbles Pop, Only the First Sellers Avoid Destruction April 20, 2020
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Pandemic and Growth April 18, 2020
While the Top 10% and the Fed Cheer Stocks Rebounding, the Bottom 60% Lose their Livelihoods and Lives April 17, 2020
Can "Sickcare" Survive the Pandemic? April 14, 2020
There's No Going Back, We Can Only Go Forward April 13, 2020
The World Has Changed More Than We Know April 8, 2020
The Lockdown Wouldn't Be So Devastating If Our Economy Wasn't So Rigged, Brittle and Exploitive April 7, 2020
If Lockdown Is a Needless Over-Reaction, Then Why Did China Lockdown Half its Economy? April 6, 2020
Pandemic Pandemonium: The Tides of Globalization and Financialization Reverse March 31, 2020
The Pandemic Is Accelerating the Breakdown That Began a Decade Ago March 25, 2020
Helicopter Money: Short-Term Relief Won't Cure our Financial Disease March 23, 2020
The System Will Not Return to "Normal," and That's Good; We Can Do Better March 21, 2020
The Global Repricing of Assets Can't Be Stopped March 18, 2020
Covid-19 Helicopter Money: Go Big Now or Go Home March 17, 2020
The Covid-19 Dominoes Fall: The World Is Insolvent March 16, 2020
Goodbye to All That: The Demise of Globalization and Imperial Pretensions March 12, 2020
And Then Came the Lawsuits: Pandemic in a Litigious Society March 10, 2020
The Gathering Storm: Could Covid-19 Overwhelm Us in the Months Ahead? March 5, 2020
Could China's Overlapping Crises Spiral Out of Control? March 4, 2020
Did Covid-19 Just Pop All the Global Financial Bubbles? March 3, 2020
The Limits of Force: A Bayonet in the Back Will Not Restore China's Economy March 2, 2020
Could the Covid-19 Pandemic Collapse the U.S. Healthcare System? February 27, 2020
The Economic Cataclysm Ahead February 26, 2020
How Many Cases of Covid-19 Will It Take For You to Decide Not to Frequent Public Places? February 25, 2020
When Will We Admit Covid-19 Is Unstoppable and Global Depression Is Inevitable? February 23, 2020
Covid-19: Global Retrenchment Will Obliterate Sales, Profits and Yes, Big Tech February 20, 2020
Omens, Portents, Karma and the Mandate of Heaven February 19, 2020
The World Is Awash in Oil, False Assurances, Magical Thinking and Complacency as Global Demand Careens Toward a Cliff February 18, 2020
COVID-19 Pandemic: The Complacent Are Clueless February 17, 2020
The Violent Collision of Market Fantasy and Viral Reality February 14, 2020
Our "Come to Mao" Reckoning and the Next Cultural Revolution February 13, 2020
China's Fatal Dilemma February 11, 2020
Controlling the Narrative Is Not the Same as Controlling the Virus February 9, 2020
The Pandemic Isn't Ending, It's Just the Beginning of Global Disorder and Depression February 7, 2020
Pandemic, Lies and Videos: What Were We Thinking? February 6, 2020
When China's Supply Chains Break, so Will the Delusion the U.S. Economy Is Invulnerable February 5, 2020
Projecting "Wave 2" and "Wave 3" of the Coronavirus Pandemic February 4, 2020
Brace for Impact: Global Pandemic Already Baked In February 3, 2020
Second-Order Effects: The Unexpectedly Slippery Path to Dow 10,000 January 31, 2020
Has the Global Economy Finally Exhausted its Good Luck? January 30, 2020
Coronavirus and the "Unsinkable" Titanic Analogy January 29, 2020
Could the Coronavirus Epidemic Be the Tipping Point in the Supply Chain Leaving China? January 28, 2020
Is the Market Grossly Underestimating the Potential Impact of the Coronavirus Epidemic? January 27, 2020
Some Practical Questions about the Coronavirus Epidemic January 26, 2020
Don't Be Too Sure January 24, 2020