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History
Patterns, turning points & forgotten context
“Why do empires always debase their currency before they fall?”
Geopolitics
Power, alliances & the forces shaping our world
“What the rise of the multipolar world actually means for you”
Capital Markets
Money, macro trends & market psychology
“How central banks quietly shape history”
Culture
Ideas hiding in plain sight all around us
“What blockbusters reveal about the society that made them”
Mind & Spirit
Consciousness, neuroplasticity & healthy growth
“The science behind what Dr. Joe Dispenza is actually teaching”
Treasury Secretary Bessent just exhibited a “tell” – we should all pay heed
Bessent’s public jab at the WSJ over yen support reads like a poker tell—one that points at Treasury-market strain, swelling national debt, and the real cost of an illegal war that’s quietly pushing long-end yields higher.
The US Supreme Court has quietly stoked chaos…
Unelected for life, lightly supervised on ethics, and central to midterms and presidential immunity: the Court is shaping how American democracy works, or fails, more than most voters realize.
Political "labeling" is dangerous
As “communist” becomes the go-to insult for political opponents, the tactic looks less like debate and more like a Roy Cohn playbook: define the enemy, repeat the label, and make complexity disappear.
I just had an argument with Gemini…and I think I won
When Gemini dismissed questions about concentrated media ownership as an “antisemitic trope,” the exchange exposed how AI can defend preferred narratives instead of testing facts, and why independent democratic education still matters.
Frank Capra Believed in America – It's time to revisit his 1941 classic movie, "Meet John Doe"
A divided America benefits “special interest groups”. If “we the people” are divided, our collective voice gets lost and splintered into social, demographic, class and geographic partitions that can be manipulated through social media and electoral maps which can then be controlled and manipulated by highly organized special interest groups…
“Catch 47” – Joseph Heller's Guide to the Current Political Moment
Considered as a classic of 20th-century literature, Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel Catch-22 comedically told the story of a WWII bombardier named Yossarian who desperately wanted to be declared insane so he could stop flying increasingly suicidal missions. The problem was “Catch-22.”
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