Offering A New Way Forward

In my novel, The Phoenix Year it ends with a global collapse to mirror the 1929 Depression induced by a group of very wealthy and very concerned men acting to game the global financial system by taking advantage of the rich or near rich’s obsession with “self-interest.” In The Phoenix Year, the wealthy men see the problems of the global economy as being individual and collective greed. Workers are less important than shareholders and Boards of Directors are captives of senior managers. The men in this group, the Ancient and Honorable  Order of the Phoenix, own and manage the companies they or their fathers or grandfathers founded. Their time horizons are longer than the managers of most of the world’s private companies who worry about making next quarters targets more than insuring that their companies grow, and their employee prosper. As Heinrich Von Kleise, Swiss billionaire at the heart of the conspiracy, explains to Michael Ross, the American economic advisor to the President:

​ “We have created great wealth, but also great inequality. We are choking on our own excesses from income inequality that robs economies of demand for ordinary things, to the pollution that overconsumption and limited regulations has unleashed on our planet. Billions of people will be without water or food in the future, as floods and droughts afflict rich and poor alike. Free enterprise has created a paradox, greater abundance, and even greater poverty. Markets are not self-correcting, nor fair. Rarely do they produce results that are even approximately optimal. We are at a point, Michael, that without some higher authority stepping in, our world will self-destruct, choke on its on excesses, and billions will die. It is the economist’s delusion that free markets work best.”
 
Just as British votes took the leap into the unknown with Brexit or Trump-istas wishing for the simple solution that comes with the words “trust me” with your future without any substance, these men decide to game the world system of finance and investment, destroying in one final period of uncertainty fortunes and creating the collateral damage to small and large investors in the wake of this destruction.  
 
Dr. David L. Blond works as a private economic consultant specializing in quantitative analysis of economic data. He began his career working for the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. During the period of 1978 – 1985, he was a Senior Economist in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, and after leaving that position worked for various major global economic forecasting and consulting firms in senior positions developing some of the largest and most complex global economic models ever developed for use by private sector clients. He lives between Washington and Santa Fe, New Mexico. www.davidlblond.com @davidblond2000
 
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