It was the Scottish author Charles Mackay who spotted that human beings go mad in crowds and come to their senses slowly and individually. One place to see this madness in action is in financial markets, especially when those markets have been juiced with cheap money. But manias never last, so on the cusp of the next economic crisis, some people are waking up to the reality of how the world really works. In fact, daily, more and more people have stopped drinking the Kool-Aid and have started joining the dots. Their mission is simple – to understand how far the tentacles of the vested interests really reach to maintain the status quo.
