Tuesday, January 20, 2026

As We Head To Davos, Some Thoughts -- January 20, 2026

Locator: 49757COLLAPSE. 

Breaking: "Walzing Minnesotan" -- link here -- 

Also: Cubans in Florida are being deported in record numbers. 

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Collapse Of An Empire 

This was from another "Million Dollar Way" blog on April 10, 2025, link here

Collapse of an empire -- some of these have not held up well; most have:

Some thoughts based on recent readings and current events.

Collapse of an empire:

  • highly bureaucratic; highly regulated;
    • European Unionization of the kingdom
  • disruption of trading patterns
    • failure to address imbalance of trade
  • loss of border integrity
  • breakdown of social order; social disorder
    • petty crime; illicit drug use
  • failure of immigrants to assimilate one's new country
    • multilingual
    • dress
    • religion
  • severe maldistribution of wealth;
  • egomaniacal leaders; grandiose delusional leaders;
    • mega-projects with little social benefit or likelihood of success
    • manned voyages to Mars; manned voyages beyond the earth's moon
    • bullet trains
  • loss of a vibrant two-party political system
    • the Californication of US politics (extreme gerrymandering resulting in 100% Democratic-controlled counties)
  • bad strategic decisions; losing strategic advantages for no gain
    • selling the Panama Canal to to Panama for one dollar -- perhaps my favorite
    • government leaders unable to think strategically -- added since original post 
  • misguided military spending
    • $5-million missiles to take out $5,000 drones

The biggest oversight: widespread fraud that federal and state government officials no longer care about or actually encourage.