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cm2012 2 hours ago

Yeah, this article does not seem evidence backed to me. There is a ton of optimism now.

Obscurity4340 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Isnt Economist , like, a super prestigious publication? Why would they let something flimsy seep thru?

matrix87 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Zerohedge is probably more reliable at this point

janderson215 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I know someone who has called it “The Ecommunist” for 20 years, so not everybody has the opinion that is is prestigious, but some see it as elitist.

VonGuard an hour ago | parent [-]

Calling the Economist anything resembling "leftist" is emblematic of the psychosis in the system. The Economist is what the Wall Street Journal was before Murdoch bought it: Focused on encouraging long term thinking, gains, and wisdom, while reporting on the short term trends. The Economist is the absolute embodiment of the old man and the kid joke from the Sopranos:

The investor: "Hey dad, let's run down this hill and fuck that cow!"

The Economist: "Be patient, son. Let's walk down this hill and fuck 'em all."

pfisch an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

How though...there is no reasonable way anyone could look at the oil futures price and think it isn't being manipulated, which suggests maybe a lot of the market is equally fake.

Also SpaceX is getting ready to cheat SPY so the owners can basically use everyone's retirement funds as their exit liquidity.

All the AI companies seem like they are a massive bubble that they are also going to try to dump on the market in what I'm sure will be a similar scheme.

Then in politics we seem to be driving the US empire into the ground, while Trump steals billions. In just the last year Trump stole more than 10x Pelosi's entire net worth from her entire 40 year career in politics. The corruption coming from the white house is so extreme, it is probably more than all us politicians have stolen in all of us history combined. And what is absolutely insane is that a huge portion of the population seems to be in favor of it continuing this way.

We are speedrunning the end of the US empire, when it could've been a slow US decline that could've lasted the next 40 years which would've given us a chance to turn things around.