Speculation in the Age of No Growth
Speculation isn’t the cause of our great stagnation — it’s how the system tries to outrun it.

Illustration by Mark Pernice
Wall Street jolts with every policy shift. Venture capital floods in and out of artificial intelligence, longevity tech, Tesla — whatever looks like the next big thing. Financial news feels like a high-speed carousel: charts, crashes, comebacks, tokens, bubbles. Everything seems to be happening all at once. Yet most people feel like nothing in their lives is […]