The $166 Billion Wealth Transfer: A Five-Lens Autopsy
Don't Hold Your Breath Waiting for Your Cut
If you haven’t figured it out yet, we are in the midst of a middle-class extraction phase of the Great Taking Back. They gave the post-World War II generation a cut-in—the best wages on the planet, health care, pensions, and vacation time—and now they want it back.
This week the Great Tariff Con Game gets exposed under a Five-Lens reading. But that’s what we do here—wrestle truth from the jaws of obscurity. Lucky for me, and for you, that I know a good bit of history. Having scoured the literature of the turn-of-the-20th-century for my second book, I knew better than to buy the inversion of McKinley’s Tariff “blessings” as the rationale behind this new sleight-of-hand.
After you’ve finished this week’s Brief—and the light bulb of truth has gone off in your head—tell me whether you agree.
Every bit of plausible deniability crumbles the closer you look. If you know history, you’ll see the patterns over and over again. Never again will Charlie Brown get fooled by Lucy as he goes to kick the football.
They knew exactly what they were doing—and they’ve been using similar formulas for a long time.
What say you?
Don’t miss any of the previous Five-Lens Briefs. You’ll never read the news the same way again.
And if you want to understand the historical background that led to the Five-Lens approach, please read One Idea to Rule Them All and Masters of Illusion. A video doesn’t get you close enough to the original material, like a book does. Don’t rely on short summaries. You’ll never view the 20th century the same way again.