People often wonder why few solutions are presented for the significant challenges we face. Perhaps it is worth reminding everyone what the biggest challenge really is, and it has nothing to do with Joe Biden or our political system abusers.
The biggest problem we face as a nation is our unwillingness to admit our current condition is the result of purposeful action.
Cue example # [you_fill_in_the_ blank], a visual demonstration:

The central banks did not “fail to spot” the source of inflation. The monetary policy makers did not make mistakes. The hands that guide the economic system did not screw it up, make mistakes or fail to recognize the consequences of the policy they put into place.
When they meet together at Davos for collective discussions around opportunities presented by the pandemic, the guidebook known as Build Back Better did not just organically materialize. Nor did all the western governing central bankers make the same mistakes when they followed the agreed consensus. They knew from the outset the climate change agenda would be a radical transformation of the global energy system, and as a result, the global economy.
The central banks did not collectively “fail to spot” the inflation they were creating by lowering energy production, disincentivizing energy investment, limiting energy development, shifting policy away from new production, and generally breaking the traditional energy system finances. They knew precisely what they were doing, and they did it -and continue to do it- with forethought and purpose.
This is where people mistakenly view ‘prior justifications‘ as ‘mistakes.’ When they said inflation was transitory, they were not lying about what they created. They were, however, obfuscating the length of the term “transitory.” Inflation is transitory, from where and when it started in 2021, all the way to where and when windmills, solar panels and clean energy will take over on (fill_in_date_). That is the “transition.”
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