the rat-maze suffocating Art Deco Metropolis nightmare of Anton Furst really gave Schumacher a rich palette to draw from. for Gotham City you can describe its existence as a character as pre-Furst and post-Furst
Liquidity always sows the seeds of its own demise though. When liquidity increases to much, it begins to seep into inflation and cause long end rates to rise which breaks the cycle. The other potential catalyst is that the global carry trade unwinds as foreign investors need to raise dollars in order to shore up their balance sheets and they sell US stocks in order to get these dollars.
Most Important quote in trading, investing... all time...
"It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong." — Stanley Druckenmiller
DB Reid: In the US, the labour share of income is already at an all-time low, so again it wouldn’t take much to create a significant political backlash if AI further impacted labour…
Global Inflation since 1750.. DB Reid h/t @mebfaber
since the Industrial Revolution, humans have been remarkably innovative and yet inflation has surged.
Art by prolific British Artist Colin Hay. Most of these were book covers that were later reprinted in the Terran Trade Authority and Galactic Encounters books (late 70s- early 80s)