In just a few hours, at this very humble little web log, a new short story in lieu of a column is coming. You’ll be pleased.

For the wider world, I decided to update my income to housing price ratio “game.” (Average incomes in the USSA should now be $375,000…) I thank Mr. Savin and the good folks at Geopolitika for carrying this bit in full:

LIFE UNDER SANCTIONS: THE INCOME TO HOUSING PRICE RATIO GAME

I lost track of how many “crushing” rounds of economic sanctions the Global American Empire and its vassal states placed on Russia. So far as I can tell from a distance, the combined effect, while perhaps causing minor inconveniences here and there, has been to act as a kind of externally imposed protective tariff. Similar results have been seen in North Korea, Iran, and elsewhere. Those actions, along with the idiotic decoupling of Russia from SWIFT appear to have opened the floodgates of Russian, Sino-Russian, and BRICS+ expansion and prosperity. But who knows? Maybe the neoliberal satanists are just one more set of “crushing” sanctions away from reestablishing their collapsing global dominion. Their tactics have, however, proved remarkably effective in and against their host nations.

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Read the whole think at Geopolitika.