John’s Blog

This won’t hurt a bit. So said the Federal Reserve and the Treasury between 2022 and 2024 as they first raised interest rates, then dropped them. It hurt, but the media refused to acknowledge what we all knew in the supermarkets, farms and schools across the nation.

Sisyphus regains the hill. A vertical assent to the obvious. The oblivion of the masses. Manipulation by their our mules of addiction. A contrived construction, a Potemkin’s village of lies and externalized myths.