Times of Turmoil, Times of Hope: The Ideas that Make, Break & Shape Our World
500+ Subscribers! Top Posts, Thank You & Getting ready for more in 2024!
As a quick note, thank you to the 500+ people from around the world who are now subscribed. It’s been a great response and very gratifying. I am thankful to everyone who has signed up, and who is committed to learning more about the ideas that make, break and shape our world. It’s also important to remember that, as William Morris wrote, that “Times of turmoil are always and also times of hope.”
We have lots of posts planned for the New Year.
Here are a few of the popular posts as well as series.
1. Power Dynamics in Pricing:
The most popular post - (as shared online). In a negotiation where each side is of course trying to establish the best deal, it’s not just supply and demand. It’s each side’s capacity to control their supply and control their demand.
This reflects the difference in power between the parties on either side of the exchange. So, it’s not a smooth and simple relationship between supply and demand. Prices and the market will be distorted by market power.
Prices aren't just about supply and demand. They're about control over supply and demand
2. Series 1: The Great Deception
Due to a few chance developments, during the pandemic, I was spurred into a doing a deep dive into Canada’s history, especially during political upheavals and changes in the 1920s and 1930s. One was simply a social media post to an article, pointing out that in 1929, the Ku Klux Klan in Saskatchewan helped bring down the provincial government. I discovered a deeper political history of Canada that has not just been forgotten, but buried. It includes political parties collaborating with the Ku Klux Klan, eugenics being adopted and preached by churches and governments alike, and of national leaders doing everything they can to erase this history, while the same broken ideas continue to inform our politics.
For me, the question was personal as well as political. It is a matter of modern-day justice, as well as historical justice – because people are still being hurt today.
Here are Chapters 1-8 in The Great Deception
https://dougaldlamont.substack.com/s/the-great-deception
3: Series 2 - Canada’s Convoy: A Coup By Any Other Name
Canada’s convoy was seen as a sudden grassroots movement that exploded. There is much more to the story.
Riots may be a predictable part of quarantine, but there is no denying that this was a coordinated political effort involving politicians and far-right networks across Canada, North America and around the world.
There is also no question that the tactics employed by protestors were unlawful. Jamming 911 lines is dangerous - but blocking traffic on a roadway is a crime.
It’s also the case that for many followers, their beliefs and motivations were based on conspiracy theories that have the facts wrong on health, politics, and the law.
Here is the entire series:
https://dougaldlamont.substack.com/s/pandemic-pandemic-and-the-convoy
4: WANT DEMOCRACY? Reform Monetary Policy
Around the world, right-wing populist movements are surging - because of desperation caused by decades of bad monetary policy.
William White - a Canadian economist who is one of the world’s experts on monetary policy and central banks - has written that it’s critical for developed economies to change the way that central banks analyze and act to manage the economy.
5. Peter Nygard, an Election in the Bahamas, and the Strangest Political Meeting Never
Speaks for itself.
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