Globalization's sad charade visualized:
MSCI World stock index (ex-U.S.) with Global Commodities
Global stocks at Y2K levels:
"At least the Dow is strong"
Solvency and sanity now hinge on the Dow
"Backup the truck, bitchez"
The globalized economy is a colossal Ponzi Scheme in which the vast majority survive on the bread crumbs falling off the table. The possibility of 7 billion people achieving a consumption-oriented lifestyle is zero, so the World Bank conveniently set the poverty line at $1.25/day to legalize global slavery. As long as someone else's children are doing the suffering, it's "all good". Post-2008, this illusion was extended merely by plundering all future generations.