Falling Into the Abyss Between Wall Street and Main Street

Posted by Charles Hugh Smith

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I know this runs counter to every dominant narrative, but a vaccine doesn’t really matter, opening up doesn’t really matter, and the size of the “free money” stimulus checks doesn’t matter.

What matters is that the nation is falling into the abyss that’s opened between Wall Street and Main Street.

And nothing will stave off the collapse of the social order other than a fundamental re-ordering of the way we create and distribute money and political power, as money buys political influence.

The last economic tide with widespread benefits to Main Street was 30 years ago. Since then, the Federal Reserve and other central banks have incentivized globalization and financialization, two dynamics that favor mobile capital and financier skims and scams…CLICK for complete article