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The Road to Reset: Where We Are, and Where We Are Headed cjdew Follow Apr 28 · 5 min read

Raison D’etre

The post-WWII Bretton Woods economic order is coming to a close. As economic systems have become financialized, capitalism has largely been replaced by cronyism and free markets by ‘too big to fail’ casinos; while the middle-class has increasingly been hollowed by Ponzi-like financial structures designed to funnel wealth to the top 1%. The status quo is unsustainable.

Irrespective of how it may have come about, the COVID pandemic has been the pin that has finally catalyzed the over-inflated credit markets to burst beyond repair, the collapse of which — in combination with the decline of the pertrodollar — signals the end of the seventy-five-year macro-debt cycle. This is a paradigm shifting event, such that the socio-economic foundations to drive the next era of human civilization will be decided in the coming months and years.

The following aims to make sense of the current, seemingly chaotic environment, and to provide a concise, to-the-point overview for how a potential socio-economic reset may play out.