Meta-economics (thread)

A bailout for debtors is an anti-bailout for savers.

'Globalism' is the result of a collaborative corporate strategy to reduce international trade barriers and corporate taxes.

Populist movements are a response to the failed economic promises of globalism.

Immigration is a strategy to drive down low-skill labor wages.

The H1B visa program is a strategy to drive down high-skill labor wages.

Modern ‘trade agreements’ exist to limit trade.

‘Referendums’ occur when internationalist interests fail to convince domestic populations of their preferred economic conditions.

NGO's construct a facade of impartiality in order to shape public opinion and influence policy to benefit the economic interests of their contributors.

Internationalist non-profit organizations provide financing and grants as quid pro quo arrangements in exchange for market access and purchase commitments.

Government subsidies and contracts are successful lobbying attempts to seize taxpayer money.

Government contracts are the modern day crown jewels.

The environmental movement was co-opted by a corporate agenda to secure subsidies.

‘Global healthcare’ and ‘climate change’ initiatives are corporate strategies to secure subsidies from as many international governments as possible.

Obamacare is a law mandating that citizens, companies, and the US government pay healthcare, insurance, and pharmaceutical corporations every month.

Corporations use the ‘right’ to enact favorable tax policy, and the ‘left’ to pass regulations that increase barriers to entry.

Marketers use the metaphysical-shaped hole previously filled by religion, to sell you ‘progress'.

There is a profit motive to break down morality.

Social engineering provides a constant stream of value by molding desire to manufacture demand.

The modern university has a balance sheet more analogous to that of a hedge fund or a REIT than to a traditional educational institution.

In the West, politics is downstream of economics. In the East, economics is downstream of politics.

Infrastructure spending bills are passed each presidential term to reward donors and boost GDP.

Economic growth is required to satisfy the embedded growth obligation inherent in human societies.

Corporations control regulators through a process called regulatory capture, it is a well documented phenomena throughout history.

Antitrust departments facilitate antitrust violations.

Governments and firms use capital to subvert foreign governments and firms.

The FDA does not require that pharmaceutical companies publish all research in drug testing.

The amount of economic loss created by duplicate pharmaceutical research is unmeasured.

Radical materialism has resulted in a vicious cycle within the healthcare industry.

The business cycle oscillates between QE and non-QE instead of expansion and recession.

Government expenditures are added to (not subtracted from) GDP calculations.

GDP growth is negative almost every year since 08’ after subtracting out increases in government spending.

The CPI formula (used to measure inflation) uses substitution and quality adjustments to intentionally underestimate inflation.

Inflation is intentionally underestimated to obscure falling wages, overstate GDP, and justify the use of monetary stimulus.

The unemployment metric in the US does not include people out of work longer than 6 months.

Fractional reserve banking decoupled wage growth from productivity increases.

Both under-regulated and over-regulated markets result in the evolution of capitalism into socialism.

Buybacks boost short term stock prices at the expense of long term shareholder value.

Public markets are where insiders cash out to the public.

Oligopolies in practice behave as monopolies.

Firm self awareness of ‘too big to fail' has resulted in massive debt issuance that is used to hold governmental and regulatory bodies hostage.

Stock market indices trend upwards because the laggards are replaced by more valuable companies over time.

Stock prices are more than numbers on a screen, they represent power dynamics and control structures in the real world.

Algorithms accelerate the centralization of capital.

AI and ML are legal strategies to diffuse corporate responsibility.

Firms use behavioral economists and psychologists as a form of social engineering to drive sales and attain maximum engagement.

The gig economy supplies a paycheck-to-paycheck population with a paycheck-to-paycheck job by reorganizing the labor market from full-time to part-time.

Standardized positions transitioned human capital from a creative and productive force into interchangeable parts.