The Leading Indicators
“Unemployment: 6.6 percent.
National debt: $10.4 trillion.
From the office tower the view was of a frenzy of freeways: chock to the lane markers with cars, buses and trucks moving insistently, everyone wanting to be somewhere they were not. Watching so many vehicles in motion might be inspiring if the motion were purposeful. The traffic Tom saw from the office tower window was streaming along close together in space and time, as if someone had planned this outcome. You’d like to assume the traff...ic was acting out a plan. But there was no design. Each person behind a wheel was on his or her own, and none had the slightest idea what the next was doing, other than exhibiting nervous anxiety.
The companies and governments of the world—you’d like to assume they are working from a well-thought-out blueprint intended to keep things together. Perhaps that is too much to ask. You might be content to assume they are following a slapdash plan or even a dumb plan, as long as events are happening for a reason later to be revealed.MoreLess
National debt: $10.4 trillion.
From the office tower the view was of a frenzy of freeways: chock to the lane markers with cars, buses and trucks moving insistently, everyone wanting to be somewhere they were not. Watching so many vehicles in motion might be inspiring if the motion were purposeful. The traffic Tom saw from the office tower window was streaming along close together in space and time, as if someone had planned this outcome. You’d like to assume the traff...ic was acting out a plan. But there was no design. Each person behind a wheel was on his or her own, and none had the slightest idea what the next was doing, other than exhibiting nervous anxiety.
The companies and governments of the world—you’d like to assume they are working from a well-thought-out blueprint intended to keep things together. Perhaps that is too much to ask. You might be content to assume they are following a slapdash plan or even a dumb plan, as long as events are happening for a reason later to be revealed.MoreLess
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