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Every era in economic history hides a force so fundamental to its functioning that it remains invisible until the moment it fails. In 2008, that hidden engine was mortgage-backed securities, arcane financial instruments most people didn’t know existed until they blew up the global economy. In 1999, it was the dot-com bubble, a frenzy of valuations built on shitty business …
On this joyous spring day of the year 2025, under the silent watch of the stars and the scroll of time, I set these words to record—not merely as commentary, but as witness. We stand poised between two epochs: with one hand grasping the crude stone of our Neanderthal past, and the other reaching toward the blinding fire of the …
In both macroeconomic theory and political philosophy, two dominant and deeply conflicting schools of economic thought—the Austrian School and the Keynesian School—have long stood at odds, particularly over the fundamental question of the state’s role in economic coordination, intervention, and crisis response. Yet for most observers, this conflict remains hidden beneath the surface. To the casual observer, economic discourse is …
In the shadowed margins of rational choice, where cunning meets chaos and the enlightened savage reigns, game theory unfurls as a merciless apparatus for decoding strategic warfare. A dark art spawned from the minds of legendary theorists Von Neumann and Morgenstern, game theory eschews the sanitized parlors of academia for the raw arithmetic of survival—where every move is a gambit, …
Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series on the Physical Degeneration of Man. Part 1 is here. PDF: We created a clean, printable PDF of this post for offline reading. Buy it here or view a preview. ___________ If fiat currency has reshaped markets, built empires, and fueled wars, its impact on society goes far deeper than just …
PDF: We created a clean, printable PDF of this post for offline reading. Buy it here or view a preview. In the following, I want to briefly describe an econopathogenic puzzle or riddle that I will then explore and solve in detail. But before that, it is necessary to make a few brief general theoretical observations: Modern man has been …
Humans do not live in perfect harmony with each other. Rather, again and again conflicts arise between them. And the source of these conflicts is always the same: the scarcity of goods. I want to do X with a given good G, and you want to do simultaneously Y with the very same good. Because it is impossible for you …
