Antoun,

It might be politics all the way down, but it's economics all the way up.

The vantage point, up here in the cheap seats, is watching it all unfold with an objectivity even the players down on the field cannot have, even if they know some of the specifics in much more detail.

It really goes to that Western obsession with nodes over networks and how the financial system has been able to go metastatic in the resulting conceptual void.

Margaret Thatcher put this myopia most succinctly when she said there is no society, just individuals operating.

The problem for the bankers is the feedback loops have started to spin out of control and the natives are starting to get restless, from the colonies to the campuses. While the efforts to tamp them back down are starting to backfire, the negative feedback loops are kicking in.

All they can offer is force, not leadership, as the politicians and politics have been so hollowed out.

The irony is that Charles can offer some pretense of character, given the monarchy has been such a facade for so long, while people like Biden and Netanyahu are the cheapest of chiselers, because they had to sell their souls every step of the way, to get where they are.

It might seem like it can go on for a long time, but it could all well come crashing down in a relative instant, given how unstable everything is getting.

Ukraine certainly has, Israel is just digging its hole ever deeper, the US election looks like a train wreck in process.

Though the markets are still floating on clouds of ever more monopoly money and too many people are too invested in keeping it going as long as possible, that the eventual crash will be that much greater.

Cheers!

John