Category: The Zeitgeist

You want scarcity? Access to the upper echelons of high society? Well, say no more. It's your very last chance to buy this most special, most fantasti…

It's my favorite part of any Batman movie ... that scene where the henchman pays a visit to the crazed supervillain - the Joker is the gold standard h…

My point in relating the fable of the Donkey of Guizhou is not that I believe China is the tiger and the United States is the donkey in our current tr…

No matter what kind of game you're playing, never mistake a threat display for a fundamental transformation or escalation of the game. The China Trade…

Everybody does Fiat News. But some people get it deep in their soul. A lot of those people work at a particular paper in New York.

Perhaps there is an emerging and cohesive narrative around the zombiefication effects of structurally low interest rates. As much as we'd like this to…

If Trump is reelected in 2020, I think he pushes forward a $2 TRILLION bond issuance that is fully or partially monetized by the Fed. They'll be calle…

Price drives the transaction volumes of non-cash-flowing, non-productive things. Not the other way around. There are prominent people at the intersec…

It's privacy and big tech again in today's Zeitgeist, which is all about mutually assured surveillance. And for Epsilon Theory, it hits home. I think …

Financialization is not a mean-reverting phenomenon. It's too good of a gravy train for Wall Street, corporate management and the White House to stop …

"De Blasio’s ‘pay parity’ hypocrisy" is a feature article in today's NY Post, and a central article in today's media Zeitgeist. Dig a little de…

Everything is topsy-turvy in the Upside Down of Stranger Things. That's the Big Baddie in the picture above, known as the Mind Flayer. Financial medi…

A few months ago, we noted how important it had become for public figures and corporations to control their own cartoon, lest someone control it for t…

"You just recently hours ago met with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping," Carlson said. "Are you closer, do you think after that meeting, to a trade d…

There's a narrative that exists in Fintech that isn't really present in most other early stage technology businesses. It defines why they're different…

This is a flat-out damning article about Amazon, relating example after example of how the company screws over legitimate authors on their industry-do…

It isn't just that cannabis always seems to make the top of the Zeitgeist. It's why - and sometimes the answer is, "Because people are paying for it t…

In the midst of a complicated issue, an article from a small regional outlet manages to remind us of the power of AND in storytelling and connecting t…

This is our graph of the narrative structure of the last full week in financial markets news.

Management is not lying to you. It's probably a really good turn-around plan. It could probably work out fine ... IF they are given enough time. But t…