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So Sorry, But Every Inch of You Is Toxic

By Charles Hugh Smith | June 23, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Your toxicity will fall to manageable levels as long as you keep spending money.

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#AxisOfEasy 355: Massive Data Breach at Desjardins Group Leads to Arrest

By Mark E. Jeftovic | June 21, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Massive Data Breach at Desjardins Group Leads to Arrests,
Malicious Campaign Targets Cryptocurrency Users via Deceptive Virtual Meeting Software,
Mouse Jigglers and the Productivity Charade: Wells Fargo Fires Expose Flaws in Hybrid Work Monitoring … this and more in AofE #355

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The Anxiety Economy

By Charles Hugh Smith | June 21, 2024 | 0 Comments
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We’re told to stop being so darn negative even as the tsunami of inequality washes away the beach chairs of the bottom 90%.

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A Most Dangerous Assumption: Mining the Future to Spend More Today

By Charles Hugh Smith | June 19, 2024 | 0 Comments
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What the cheerleaders are actually claiming is the process of adding zeroes to “money” is limitless, but there are limits on the utility of devaluing currency, too.

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The Glue Binding Democracy and a Free Economy Has Melted

By Charles Hugh Smith | June 17, 2024 | 0 Comments
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And that’s how democracy and a free economy die.

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Prepare for the Repricing of Risk Globally

By Charles Hugh Smith | June 15, 2024 | 0 Comments
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There are no more “saves” available for the next market meltdown.

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#AxisOfEasy 354: Canada’s Cybercrime Response Critically Deficient, Auditor General Finds

By Mark E. Jeftovic | June 14, 2024 | 2 Comments
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Canada’s Cybercrime Response Critically Deficient, Auditor General Finds,
Trudeau Defends Controversial Bill C-63: Aimed at Curbing Online “Misinformation” and “Hate Speech,”
UK and Canada Investigate Major Data Breach at 23andMe Affecting Millions … this and more in AofE #354

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The Crises and Sacrifices Yet to Come

By Charles Hugh Smith | June 14, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The timing of finally embracing risk and sacrifice as the only option left is exquisitely sensitive: finally caving in a moment too late leads to the system collapsing beyond recovery.

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How Many Millennials Will Be Rich Enough to Buy the Boomers’ Millions of Unaffordable Bungalows?

By Charles Hugh Smith | June 11, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Absent demand from tens of millions of wealthy, high-income buyers, asset valuations will fall as Boomers sell off assets to fund their retirement.

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Financial Nihilism and the Collapsing American Dream

By Charles Hugh Smith | June 10, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Following the conventional path is a deadend. It isn’t easy to carve a path outside the well-worn pathways of debt servitude, but it is possible.

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#AxisOfEasy 353: Massive Google Leak Exposes Search Algorithm Mysteries and Legal Implication

By Mark E. Jeftovic | June 7, 2024 | 2 Comments
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Massive Google Leak Exposes Search Algorithm Mysteries and Legal Implication,
AT&T and Verizon Outage Disrupts Service in 24 States,
Push to Protect AI Whistleblowers Led by Former OpenAI Employees … this and more in AofE #353

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If AI Is So Great, Prove It: Eliminate All Surveillance, Spam and Robocalling

By Charles Hugh Smith | June 7, 2024 | 0 Comments
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AI is for the peons, access to humans is reserved for the wealthy.

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Our Crisis of Competence

By Charles Hugh Smith | June 5, 2024 | 0 Comments
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If this is what passes for competence while we cheerlead “the Roaring 20s”, then our delusion has reached “what looks like a permanently high plateau.”

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The Google Algorithm Leak: The TL;DR on what you need to know…

By Mark E. Jeftovic | June 5, 2024 | 1 Comment
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Having Too Much Money Leads to Catastrophe

By Charles Hugh Smith | June 2, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The best thing that could happen to America would be the destruction of its credit card and a deep, prolonged recession that emptied the punch bowl of phantom bubble wealth and the illusion of endless credit.

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#AxisOfEasy 352: Vulnerability in Apple’s Location Services Exposes Privacy Risks

By Mark E. Jeftovic | May 31, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Vulnerability in Apple’s Location Services Exposes Privacy Risks,
U.S. Treasury Targets Chinese Individuals Involved in 911 S5 Anonymity Service and Money Laundering … this and more in AofE #352

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Bubble Symmetry: Could the NASDAQ Drop 60% and Round-Trip to 2,500?

By Charles Hugh Smith | May 31, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The prospect of a 60% or 80% decline in the NASDAQ index is only horrifying if we stay invested in the index all the way down.

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The $150,000 Housekeeper: Wage Inflation Kicks Into Second Gear

By Charles Hugh Smith | May 29, 2024 | 0 Comments
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If we add up all these tidal forces, the conclusion is self-evident: labor “inflation” has just shifted into second gear.

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Is Hyper-Inflation that Destroys a Currency a "Solution"?

By Charles Hugh Smith | May 27, 2024 | 0 Comments
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When predicting the future, we’re best served by following “what benefits the wealthy and powerful,” as that is the likeliest outcome.

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#AxisOfEasy 351: YouTube Faces Surge In Phishing And Deepfake Scams

By Mark E. Jeftovic | May 24, 2024 | 1 Comment
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YouTube Faces Surge in Phishing and Deepfake Scams,
Europol Data Breach Exposes Security Weaknesses,
Breach Forums Defies FBI Seizure with Dark Web Comeback … this and more in AofE #351

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Is Anyone Else’s Life as Stupidly Complicated by Digital "Shadow Work" as Mine Is?

By Charles Hugh Smith | May 22, 2024 | 0 Comments
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We seem to have entered a world of anti-leisure and anti-productivity in which the unpaid “shadow work” demanded to keep all the complicated digital bits in motion obliterate our leisure and productivity.

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Maybe We’re Closer to "You’ll Own Nothing" Than We Realize

By Charles Hugh Smith | May 19, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Maybe we should rephrase the slogan to “you’ll appear to own things you don’t actually control and be happy.”

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#AxisOfEasy 350: Malware Disguised As Popular Apps Targets Android Users

By Mark E. Jeftovic | May 17, 2024 | 3 Comments
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Malware Disguised as Popular Apps Targets Android Users,
Government Shuts Down 1,000 Skype Accounts in Massive Cyber Crime Crackdown,
LockBit Black Ransomware Rampage: Millions Targeted in Global Email Campaign … this and more in AofE #350

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The Decay of Everyday Life

By Charles Hugh Smith | May 16, 2024 | 0 Comments
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So where does this leave us? We’re on our own.

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Precarious: One Misfortune Away from Insolvency

By Charles Hugh Smith | May 14, 2024 | 0 Comments
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As a result, a significant percentage of households that are considered middle-class are one misfortune away from insolvency.

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Mark E. Jeftovic

Mark E. Jeftovic

Mark is the co-founder of easyDNS and the editor-in-chief of #AxisOfEasy. He is the author of Managing Mission Critical Domains & DNS (Packt UK, 2018) and Unassailable: Protect Yourself from Deplatform Attacks & Cancel Culture. 

The Canadian Bitcoiners

The Canadian Bitcoiners

Joey Tweets and Len the Lengend are the hosts of The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast, and you may recognize them as the voices (and faces) behing the AxisOfEasy Podcast. CanadianBitcoiners.com

Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.