{"id":17569,"date":"2023-04-10T03:57:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=17569"},"modified":"2023-04-09T16:17:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T23:17:22","slug":"unthinkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=17569","title":{"rendered":"Unthinkable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BDBBB458-9693-4E74-9725-DF686E260FC0_1_105_c.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17570\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=17570\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BDBBB458-9693-4E74-9725-DF686E260FC0_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"768,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 11 Pro Max&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1680777491&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00024301336573512&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BDBBB458-9693-4E74-9725-DF686E260FC0_1_105_c\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BDBBB458-9693-4E74-9725-DF686E260FC0_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=700%2C933&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BDBBB458-9693-4E74-9725-DF686E260FC0_1_105_c.jpeg?resize=353%2C470&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17570\" width=\"353\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BDBBB458-9693-4E74-9725-DF686E260FC0_1_105_c.jpeg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BDBBB458-9693-4E74-9725-DF686E260FC0_1_105_c.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;The unthinkable actually happens regularly.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mauldineconomics.com\/frontlinethoughts\">John Maudlin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo is from the Peralta Trail in the Superstition Mountains. I think if I had a crowbar with me I could have tipped this balanced rock. Maudlin was talking about financial crisis. In preperation I&#8217;m rereading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Incerto\/dp\/0812979680\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=D33SGNMU3DY6&amp;keywords=antifragile+by+nassim+taleb&amp;qid=1681081750&amp;sprefix=antifra%2Caps%2C132&amp;sr=8-1\">AntiFragile<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?s=nassim+Taleb\">Nassim Taleb<\/a>. My opinion is that the Fed has increased the money supply far to much and the rolling crisis will continue. Unfortunately the form they will take is unpredictable. Just like what would happen if I used my crowbar on this balanced rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The unthinkable actually happens regularly.&#8221; John Maudlin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,301,8,11],"tags":[941,61,785,311],"class_list":["post-17569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mt-whitney","category-investing","category-weekly-maxim","category-politics","tag-john-maudlin","tag-maxim","tag-nassim-taleb","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BDBBB458-9693-4E74-9725-DF686E260FC0_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=768%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-4zn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17571,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17569\/revisions\/17571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}