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The Politicization Of Everything Authored by David Solway via The Epoch Times, There was a time when politics occupied only a compartment of life. A citizen might vote, follow public affairs, argue over taxes or foreign policy and then return to the ordinary business of living: work, worship, family, literature, music, sport, conviviality. This older balance has been upended. Politics no longer confines itself to government or elections; it increasingly permeates entertainment, education, business, sport, language—even private conscience. As I noted in my recent column about the “apolitical man,” today we inhabit a...

US Services Surveys Show Continued Expansion In June: Jobs Up, Inflation Down Following US manufacturing small dip in June (though still expanding), the US Services sector PMI surveys are a little more mixed but both still solidly in expansion in June: S&P Global US Services PMI ticking up on the month from 50.7 to 51.2 (but a smidge below the 51.3 flash print) ISM US Services PMI dipped from 54.5 to 54 (in line with expectations) “A slight acceleration of business growth in the services economy takes the expansion to the strongest since...

Offload Risks Onto The Bottom 90% And Immiseration Follows Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The underlying story of the past 50 years has been the offloading of risk onto workers and consumers. On my map of how the world works, we start with structures of control that distribute the good stuff--resources, assets, income and power--and the bad stuff: costs, losses and risks. As I explained in The US Economy In a Nutshell: Privatize the Gains, Socialize the Costs, the current arrangement distributes the gains to the top 10% and the costs and risks to...