Surveillance capitalism is a business model based on the unilateral claim of human private experiences as free raw material for translation into behavioral data. The prediction and influencing of behavior, rather than goods and services, is the primary product.
Surveillance Capitalism: You Are the Commodity Read Journal Article
Leading corporations employing the surveillance capitalism business model include Google, Amazon, and Facebook. Surveillance capitalism has now fused with the science of psychology, marketing, and algorithmic manipulation of online information that go far beyond the predictions of Huxley and Orwell.
How Big Tech Spawned Surveillance Capitalism Read Journal Article
Near-term things will get worse. Conservative Pierre Poilievre is ahead in the polls, but Canada’s government-funded media is doing everything they can to destroy him. That means more inflation, more decline, more mass migration, and rising crime.
Canada’s “Worst Decline in 40 Years” Read Journal Article
The lockdowns amounted to the world’s largest and most elaborate economic head-fake in human history. It left the entire world less free and less prosperous. Most official institutions are manufacturing fake data to cover it all up.
Ten Points About Post-Lockdown Economics Read Journal Article
Will Debt Sink the American Empire? America is “cruising” into an uncharted sea of federal debt, with a government seemingly incapable of turning it around. In other words, the uniparty has set its course, and there’s no cavalry coming.
Will Debt Sink the American Empire? Read Journal Article
Across Europe, under the EU, and in the UK, whether an individual government is “left” or “right,” every single one is so indebted to Brussels, big banks, and major bondholders that it has no policy flexibility.
Anatomy of Money and the State Read Journal Article
My base case has been that we’re repeating the 1970s disaster driven by out-of-control government spending and out-of-control Fed money printing. The official numbers are matching that almost to a tee.
Are We Already in Recession? Read Journal Article
We want to get to the bottom of what has happened to the US and world economy since the disaster of lockdowns. Something doesn’t feel right, and we would like to take an objective look and tell a different story.
What Is the Real Economic Story of Our Times? Read Journal Article
Going back to that commercial real estate crisis, for the New York Times story, most of the large banks would not talk to reporters doing the story. It’s a don’t-ask-don’t-tell economy. No one wants to say hyperinflation or economic depression.
Is the Global Inflationary Depression Already Here? Read Journal Article
My recently published research leads to a startling conclusion: in every sphere of daily life, our thoughts and actions are being psychologically manipulated so as to align them with what the state’s technocrats deem to be in our best interests.
UK Technocrats Sharpen the Knives of Manipulation Read Journal Article
In short, consumer spending over the past year has been propped up by 3 things: incomes, savings, and debt. All are now out of runway.
The 3 Drivers of US Consumers Hit a Wall Read Journal Article
New Zealand’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ), has opened a consultation on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). RBNZ believes that around 2030 they will ‘introduce digital cash to Aotearoa New Zealand.’
On the Edge of the Programmable Ledger: CBDCs Read Journal Article
