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Your government has been lying to you about inflation for 80 years. Here’s the math.

Inflation Has Always Existed. That’s Not the Problem. Inflation is not a modern invention. It has existed in every monetary system in human history, from Roman emperors shaving silver off coins to medieval kings debasing currencies to finance wars and the question has never been whether inflation exists but is who controls it, how much […]

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AI Is Not Coming for Your Job. The Electric Bill Is Coming for AI. And the Real Question Is Who Owns the Meter.

A thermodynamic analysis of artificial intelligence, the Jevons Paradox, the 20-Watt miracle of biology, and why the Principle of Mutual Necessity survives the silicon revolution — unless the monetary architecture prevents it. Let us start with a fact that rarely appears in discussions about artificial intelligence and the future of work, because it is physical

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P.C.M. PUBLIC CASH MONEY, OPEN SOURCE MANIFESTO Chapter 2, Supplement: The Casus Belli Growth Does Not Cure Debt. It Accelerates It.

The Mainstream Narrative Every government, every central bank, every IMF report tells us the same story: grow your way out of debt. If GDP rises faster than debt, the debt-to-GDP ratio falls, and the problem shrinks. This is the foundational promise of modern fiscal policy. Grow. Produce. The math will take care of itself. It

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One Currency, Two Economies. The Structural Reason Why Germans, French, Italians, and Spanish Are All Right When They Say Things Are Going Wrong.

They cannot all be the worst in Europe. But they can all be victims of the same architectural error — one that the E.Q.U.A. framework is designed to correct. Open any European social media feed on any given day and you will find the same phenomenon repeated in four languages simultaneously. Germans explaining that Germany

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The Oil That Will Not Save America: Why the World’s Largest Petroleum Exporter Is Drowning in Debt

The argument sounds compelling: the United States is the world’s largest oil producer and exporter. Surely this wealth will eventually balance the books. Let us look at what the data actually says. One of the most common objections I receive when presenting the trajectory of US national debt is this: “But the United States is

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Bitcoin, Volatile Crypto, Stablecoins, CBDCs, and the F.V.I.

The entire debate about cryptocurrency and digital money is built on a confusion between two fundamentally different things: an asset and an infrastructure. Once you understand the difference, every claim made about every digital currency becomes immediately verifiable and most of them collapse. Let me start with the question that cuts through everything. If your

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The Panda’s Desperate Cry: When Morgan Stanley Starts Borrowing in Yuan, the Dollar Has a Problem.

Panda Bonds are yuan-denominated bonds issued by foreign entities inside China. In March 2026, their issuance tripled year on year. The borrowers include Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Hungary, and the Asian Development Bank. This is not a geopolitical story. It is an arithmetic story. I want to start with a definition, because the name sounds exotic

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