Early March 2023, I published a diagram (below left) on the impact of (i) coupling & decoupling, as well as (ii) chaos, equilibrium & vacuum on the four (4) stadia that govern Change in our lives, being Doubt, Fear, Hope & Love. Even then my 2023 diagram felt quite complex. Following some recent changes, I felt that my 2023 diagram needed more...
A few weeks ago, I experienced intrusive thoughts, which lasted for about a week. I thought about checking with its Sender but I was sure that Sender would deny sending those intrusive thoughts. Moreover, I felt that I was to blame myself for the receptiveness of those intrusive thoughts. "It seems to come out of nowhere — a strange, disturbing thought or a...
Intro LO: Last Friday, I published a Dutch blog on this topic: USA: Europe must choose between America and China !? The underlying Dutch article referred to a recent Irish Times article as its source. Subsequently, an Axios Macro article (see below) arrived the next day: The U.S.-China decoupling arrives. In my view, such a decoupling makes no logical and/or...
Intro LO: The world has long ignored that USA is semi bankrupt (eg, Debt to GDP ratio, annual budget deficits, trade imbalances). However, the World kept financing U.S. debt (eg, buying U.S. treasuries, US$). On 17 January 2025, the Congressional Budget Office issued a stark warning: “In 2035, the adjusted deficit equals 6.1 percent of GDP—significantly more than...
Recently, the Dutch FT published an article with an intriguing title: The Republicans say goodbye to Big Money (HFD, translation by LO). The FT published a similar title that day: Donald Trump pledges tax cuts, trade wars and border crackdown. Actually, this development is visible in China, Europe, and USA. It might be the greatest danger for nationalism. In my...
Recently, I viewed some (police) detective TV show and suddenly wondered if we all suffer from a tunnel vision in our lives: “a tendency to think only about one thing and to ignore everything else”. The aforementioned Brittanica description suggests that we do indeed. Early 2021, I prepared my diagram below. Let’s suppose that we are inside the orange box, called...
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