A few overarching themes can explain and connect a lot of the core aims of technocrats. Technocrats are driven by a quest to comprehensively apply science in order to engineer progress.
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U.S. BANKING CRISIS: NOT OVER YET?
Regulators’ seizure of First Republic Bank on 1 May and its quick sale to JPMorgan Chase for $10.6 billion marked a new chapter in the U.S. banking crisis, not its end.
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HAPPY DAYS ARE NOT HERE AGAIN: AMERICANS THINK THEIR BEST DAYS ARE BEHIND THEM
A new Pew Research Center Survey suggests that The Trends Journal has its finger on the pulse of the American public that sees economic storm clouds on the horizon and the country’s best days in the rearview mirror.
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ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
The big news on The Street is that after yesterday’s collapse of First Republic Bank, the second largest bank failure in U.S. history which followed the third largest bank failure in U.S. history when Silicon Valley Bank went bust on 10 March—two days before the fourth largest bank failure in U.S. history when Signature Bank went under—is that Happy Days are Here again... and everything is just fine.
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SOMETHING WILL GIVE: THE ENTIRE SYSTEM IS BREAKING
Yes, the current monumental disconnect between the world economy and global equity/stock markets is today-off the Richter Scale. But that is just the tip of the iceberg.
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SPOTLIGHT: OFFICE BUILDING BUST
The combination of the remote-work revolution and rising interest rates “could be worse than anything corporate landlords have experienced before,” The New York Times said in a 26 April analysis.
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PRIVACY, PROPERTY AND FREEDOM: A TALK WITH WATCHMAN PRIVACY PODCAST’S GABRIEL CUSTODIET
I recently had the pleasure of appearing on an episode of the Watchman Privacy Podcast with Gabriel Custodiet (“Leaving Humanity: The Technocratic Worldview with Joe Doran,” episode 65.)
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DUH-MOCK-RACY: GIVE THE FRENCH PRESIDENT THE FINGER, GET FINED AND GO TO JAIL
It’s a sick joke. The great NATO government and the United States who launch wars across the globe, invade and occupy foreign nations and spend trillions to kill millions in the name of bringing freedom and democracy have—as we have greatly detailed in The Trends Journal—stolen it from its people.
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WWIII: U.S. PREPARES FOR POSSIBLE NUCLEAR STRIKE BY RUSSIA IN UKRAINE
The Biden administration has begun wiring Ukraine with radiation sensors so it will be better able to identify the culprit behind a nuclear blast or dirty bomb, according to a report.
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ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
Last Friday, Moody’s Investors Service downgraded regional lenders, including U.S. Bancorp, Zions Bancorp, Bank of Hawaii Corp., Washington Federal Inc., Western Alliance Bancorp, Associated Banc-Corp., Comerica Inc., UMB Financial Corp., First Hawaiian Inc., Intrust Financial Corp., and First Republic.