The Looming Death of Homo Economicus

A storm is brewing.

More censorship ahead?

Confronting the Coming Liquidity Crisis

So far, investors have been complacent about the risks posed by the looming budget fight.

So what you see is nothing but shadow of a shadow of a shadow.

And now we want to do a double double of the age wave coming through?

How do we set a going to the moon goal of dealing with the Y2K 10 problem that's coming?

Worrying about the coming population decline in advanced countries is a meaningless diversion.

As that moment approaches, the main question will be how well the United States is prepared for it.

Have you not seen how your Lord lengthens out the shadow?

O dear Prophet, did you not see your Lord, how He spread the shade?

Hast thou not regarded thy Lord, how He has stretched out the shadow?

Hast thou not observed thine lord how He hath stretched out the shadow?

Have you not seen how your Lord spread the shadow.

Do you not see how your Lord extends the shadow?

Have you not regarded how your Lord spreads the twilight?

Do you not see how your Lord stretches the shadow?

Have you not seen that your Lord increases the shadow.

Have you not considered (the work of) your Lord, how He extends the shade?

Have you not seen how your Lord lengthens the shadows?

Hast thou not turned thy vision to thy Lord? How He doth prolong the shadow!

Neither shady nor protecting against the blazing Fire.

Which neither gives shade, nor saves from the flame.

unshading against the blazing flame

Neither shading nor availing against the flame.

Neither shading, nor of any use against the fierce flame of the Fire.

Offering no shade, and unavailing against the flames.

which neither provides (cooling) shade nor protection against the flames

(Which yet is) no relief nor shelter from the flame.

neither shady nor of any avail against the flames.

wherein there is neither shade, nor freeing from the blazing flames

But having no cool shade and availing not against the flame.

which neither gives shade nor protects one from the flames.

Neither having the coolness of the shade nor availing against the flame.

affording neither shade, nor protection from the flames,

(Which yields) no shade of coolness, and is of no use against the fierce Blaze.

They sat in the shade of a tree.

Then he turned aside into the shade, and said my Lord!

Then he turned aside into the shade, and said My Lord!

Then he withdrew toward the shade and said, My Lord!

The cat lay hidden behind the bushes.

They sat in the shade of that big tree.

They sat in the shade of that big tree.

But all of this can change rapidly when a crisis looms, especially if it threatens the integrity of the European project.