THE END OF AN EPOCH

A NEW BEGINNING FOR CAPITAL MARKETS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

BRUCE FENTON

“WE ARE AT THE END OF AN EPOCH. AN ERA THAT BEGAN 100 YEARS AGO IS NOW REACHING ITS INEVITABLE CONCLUSION. EVENTS OF THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES HAVE BUILT TO THIS MOMENT. WE SAW CHANGES IN SOCIETY, GOVERNMENT, FINANCE AND GEOPOLITICS THAT BUILT THE WORLD WE KNEW. THESE CHANGES ALL CONTRIBUTE TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE OLD AND IN BUILDING WHAT IS NEXT. CHANGE SET THE STAGE FOR MORE CHANGE. MANY COMPLEX FACTORS HAVE ALIGNED TO CREATE CONDITIONS FOR CATACLYSMIC TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIETY.”

This report takes an in-depth look at the changes that we face, what makes this a major generational shift and how we arrived where we are today. It explains how major generational shifts and epoch change have occurred in history and builds a roadmap for how rebuilding might look.

The report covers:

  • The relevance of the 1918 Spanish Flu
  • Hyperinflation during the Weimar Republic
  • A move for efficiency in the 1980s
  • The 2008 financial crisis
  • The growth of the global asset bubble over the past decade
  • Generational and societal shifts
  • Chaos and Nth order effects
  • Bad economics
  • Capital creation
  • Opportunities
  • Solutions & actions to take now

These events have impacted how the world is unfolding and are relevant to the challenges we face today.

The paper concludes with ideas about what we might see next with specific recommendations and actions for workers, investors, business owners and others.

Bruce Fenton is CEO of Chainstone Labs, founder of Atlantic Financial and the Satoshi Roundtable.

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