...which is also the vanguard on which our economy, and the value of the dollar, currently depends:
yalereview.org/article/dasgupta-trump-is-only-a-symptom

January 16, 2026 - 15:48 UTC

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The 'after Trump' questions are pretty amazing to contemplate. Apart from guessing that Thiel has plans, it's hard to see a source of other coherent plans. (Thank you, universities!)
Maybe that doesn't matter & good things happen organically, but that's not a reassuring way to think about the future
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The most destructive thing about the way economics has been practiced in the US (& in the West in general), even more than the explosion of inequality and the resulting veer to the hard right, is the eradication of the idea of a plan, since the market is the plan.
web.archive.org/web/20120705215631/http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com/climate_change/time-to-end-the-multigenerational-ponzi-scheme
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