Wonder if the KHL might one day PASS the NHL?
I'm not sure the(or shall I say, us) hoi polloi can fully grasp what's goin down here. The system will probably crash, pretty soon. When they are INJECTing trillions weekly into the banks/markets, & it's not moving the needle..well my friends, the party's over.
As I'd heard an expert amusingly say, "The black swans are falling from the sky, as if they were made by BOEING!"
We just cannot comprehend(nor accept) this transpiring reality.
- We've all witnessed/lived through about 6 or 7 decades of the globally privileged, maximizing their wealth/tech/clout. Decade over decade gains. We become lured into believing it lasts forever.
- The past few decades have been largely fueled by cheap debt(WELCOME to Fantasy Island!)
- The cheap oil(as in, easy to obtain) is mostly yesteryear. Soon it gets very costly..either in currency, alliances or environmental-excess.
- The west can no longer BULLY the non-compliant. Military supremacy is now a myth.
- As all of this becomes increasingly & universally accepted, expect currencies to resemble land mines(buried, or tripped off)
Both Russia & China purport to hold one HELLUVAlotta' Gold. 20,000 tonnes in the case of China. Apparently the US hasn't shown/proven their gold holdings for decades. Also hear China is working on/visualizing a crypto-yuan that WILL be gold-backed. Prob they & Russia will be setting the economic rules.
I'd started wondering 2 or 3 yrs back, whether true professional player loyalty resides in pursuit of Lord Stanley's silver, or rather, chasing the most sexy currency(& lots of it) that they can get their grimy meathooks on. I suspect we might soon find out.