China’s problems with excessive debt, adverse demographics, and decoupling from developed economies such as the US are known.

Here’s a headline from Slate: ‘What to Take Away from Those Alarming RFK Jr. Polls’.

It’s only been a few years since governments worldwide snuck in net zero legislation past us under the cover of a pandemic. And when I mean snuck in, consider that the UK’s House of Commons never even voted on the law! In Australia, former Treasurer Peter Costello points out no thought was given to how the target would be achieved until after it was voted into law:

Being a contrarian isn’t much fun.

‘In America, all the restraint, inhibition, and modesty of the Old Republic has been blown away by the prevailing winds of the new empire. In its place has emerged a vainglorious system of conceit, deceit, debt and delusion.’

Word choice has a subliminal, yet powerful influence over our collective thinking.