Cycles of Change

Engineering practical systems and exploring the physical world.

Walk into any grocery store today and you will feel the sharp pain of prices rising at the checkout counter. A dozen eggs costs more paper money now than it did five years ago. Ground beef costs more. Bread costs more. The receipt at the bottom of the bag carries a number that climbs higher every [...]
David Collum, Cornell Professor and financial critic, provides a sobering study of the 2025 economic landscape. The core idea shows a state of recursive decay where primary systems feed on their own outputs. This process results in a decoupling from reality. This cycle, called recursive slop, [...]
Moral hazard describes a broken system where protected traders take wild gambles with public funds. When bank executives know that state lifelines will pay their debts, cautious habits vanish into thin air. Gamblers chase giant cash windfalls while expecting public bailouts whenever their bets [...]