The future bad and good

In another fine review in Chronicles (May 2018) Tobias Lanz reviews the work of James Rickards, who says the whole planet is now deeply in debt and this massive bubble will soon explode.

Rickards believes that there is no free trade, trade cannot be free, it is always politically determined. But governments can then be controlled by money elites, that is, the G7 leaders, central banks, the Council on Foreign Relations, etc., which Rickards says are not a real "conspiracy" but are simply not covered by the media. The review doesn't talk about about the real conspiracies within the money elite, which can take the form of selfish or ethnic factions not well serving the other money elites.

In any case, Rickards says all we little people can do is reduce individual debt, hold cash, buy precious metals (especially silver), as stores against the coming storm, which Rickards says is certain to come.

I would add that we also need to vote in leaders who are determined to bring back the economic nationalism that made America great (and is now making China great). That is, tariffs on foreign products and using the tariffs to lower the taxes on American business which will bring them back from the dead. President Trump at least talked about doing that, and the people loved it.

And then, since people make the culture, culture only follows the traits of the people, and since people are kin-centered and ethnocentric, we can begin to develop an ethnopluralism of ethnostates legally adapted from the constitutional separation of powers and states (avoiding radical revolution). That is the real long term way---based on real human nature---to counter the money elites and to keep the planet from socially imploding or exploding.