January 1, 2022 – Heisenberg Report

The Year Of The Abject: Making Sense of Nonsense

January 1, 2022June 24, 202212 min read

The emergence of 21st century Right-wing populism represents the biggest innovation on that terrain. Right-wingers now recognize the abject as a source of political leverage

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Onomatopoeia: The Guaranteed Dovish Fed Pivot

January 1, 2022January 2, 20223 min read

This is a bit of a broken record, but I’d be remiss not to emphasize it on the first day of a new year: Fed

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Stocks, COVID Enter 2022 Riding Unfathomable Surge

January 1, 2022January 8, 20224 min read

The first day of 2022 featured a somewhat awkward juxtaposition of headlines. Stories documenting the biggest surge in COVID cases since the onset of the

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Wages, Prices And A System In Crisis

June 29, 2022July 1, 20226 min read

Alarmist "wage-price spiral" rhetoric is a fixture of the economic news cycle in 2022. Scarcely…

The Sad, Sad Story Of $3 Trillion In Pandemic Savings

June 20, 2022July 2, 20225 min read

You've heard it again and again: Major developed economies, including and especially the world's largest,…

Is Decentralized Finance Imploding?

May 29, 2022May 30, 20229 min read

"You can't issue unlicensed securities and use your friends as the underwriters," I told someone…

Ethereum Fever Dream Crippled Our Economy. It’s Time We Wake Up

May 13, 2022May 25, 20228 min read

On August 11, 2021, a USA Today article featured the headline, "Millennials are quitting jobs…

We Built A ‘Doomsday Momentum Machine.’ Now It’s Blowing Up

May 6, 2022May 8, 20226 min read

During the vicious, tech-led selloff that wiped away a fleeting, post-FOMC bounce in US equities,…

With Twitter Deal, Musk Vies For Surveillance Capitalist Crown

April 25, 2022May 2, 20226 min read

Surveillance capitalism operates through unprecedented asymmetries in knowledge and the power that accrues to knowledge.…