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Toronto, 2017.05.02

My wife's an economist by training and is now learning to become an FX trader – I keep thinking of a certain chart. It's one created originally by Chris Martenson and the gang at "peak prosperity". If I read it (and it is meant to be representative, and not depicting exact dates) we're right around the peak in industrial and food output.

Chris Martenson graph
Here comes history

Kinda hard to figure out what, if any, of our current values and activities are going to matter in retrospect.

rand()m quote

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

—Henry David Thoreau