Here’s a couple of lines from my song “Why Weren’t We Told”:
“The warnings were there,
But who would behold?
The crisis kept building,
Why weren’t we told?”
Today is Tuesday, the day after the Labor Day holiday in the U.S., which is the traditional end of summer. All of the summer play time has now passed and the focus becomes back work.
Summer is typically a season of leisure: important things can wait, it’s time to have fun! The Labor Day passes and it time for that sharp transition from being focused on leisure to being focused on current events of significance.
As I scan the news of the day, I see that escalation is escalating. The global economy is still a freight train going full speed ahead into an oil crisis. Here’s just one of the many signs which are all there: