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Men of God in the City of Man, Part 2: Carriers

Every virus needs carriers to spread. Even a narrative virus. We can learn a lot from what they have in common.
Rusty Guinn August 31, 2023
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Men of God in the City of Man, Part 1: Virus

This is a story about a virus and the gain-of-function research that produced it. It's not what you think.
Rusty Guinn August 25, 2023
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Hollow Men, Hollow Markets, Hollow World

Over the past 25 years, our leaders have intentionally constructed an Apocalypse Now world of proclamation and fiat, where our wealth has grown much f…
Ben Hunt July 9, 2022
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The Long Now, Pt. 4 – Snip!

The Long Now has severed the tether between taxation and spending - the most important macroeconomic policy relationship in our social lives as both i…
Ben Hunt December 26, 2019
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The Long Now, Pt. 3 – Wink

I believe that we are on the cusp of the Long Now becoming irreversible. Or at least irreversible without a cataclysmic Fall. Why? Because they have …
Ben Hunt October 17, 2019
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The Long Now, Pt. 2 – Make, Protect, Teach

It's time to start a fire. To burn, yes, but also to illuminate. My advice? Abandon the political party as your vehicle for political participation. …
Ben Hunt September 11, 2019
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The Long Now, Pt. 1 – Tick-Tock

The Long Now is everything we pull into the present from our future selves and our children. We are told that the economic stimulus and the political…
Ben Hunt July 31, 2019
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A Song of Ice and Fire

We are the human animal. We are non-linear. We ARE a song of ice and fire. It’s a song that has built cathedrals and fed billions and taken us to…
Ben Hunt May 27, 2019
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Things Fall Apart (Part 4)

Take back your vote. Take back your distance. Take back your data. How to make our way as citizens in a fallen world, with Clear Eyes and Full Hearts…
Ben Hunt November 19, 2018
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Things Fall Apart (Part 3)

The Fed, China and Italy are the Three Horsemen of the Investment Semi-Apocalypse. They're major market risks, but you'll survive. There's a Fourth …
Ben Hunt October 24, 2018
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Things Fall Apart (Part 2)

Part 2 of a three-part series on what it means to have a polarized electorate and a monolithic market. Today’s note: How do things fall apart in a m…
Ben Hunt September 4, 2018
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Things Fall Apart (Part 1)

Part 1 of a three-part series on what it means to have a polarized electorate and a monolithic market. Today's note: the Age of Ridiculousness and the…
Ben Hunt August 8, 2018
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This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Part 13 of the Notes from the Field series discusses the Narrative Machine, which can help us see the invisible memes that drive our political behavio…
Ben Hunt May 22, 2018
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Good Job!

This is Part 11 of Ben's Notes from the Field series. I don’t need to calculate a Sortino ratio to know if my dogs are doing a Good Job. Same with a…
Ben Hunt March 1, 2018
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Too Clever By Half

The inevitable result of financial innovation gone awry, which it ALWAYS does, is that it ALWAYS ends up empowering the State. When too clever by half…
Ben Hunt February 5, 2018
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The Three-Body Problem

What if I told you that the dominant strategies for human investing are, without exception, algorithms and derivatives? I don't mean computer-driven i…
Ben Hunt December 21, 2017
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Pecking Order

The pecking order is a social system designed to preserve economic inequality: inequality of food for chickens, inequality of wealth for humans. We ar…
Ben Hunt November 29, 2017
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Clever Hans

Part 7 of Ben's Notes from the Field series reminds us that you don’t break a wild horse by crushing its spirit. You nudge it into willingly surrend…
Ben Hunt October 26, 2017
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Sheep Logic

In Part 6 of the Notes from the Field Series, Ben observes that we think we are wolves, living by the logic of the pack. In truth we are sheep, living…
Ben Hunt October 5, 2017
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Always Go To the Funeral

There’s a pose that very sick farm animals sometimes take when they’re near death, where they lie down and twist their head way back into their sh…
Ben Hunt August 23, 2017
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