Hi Monroe, thanks for the comment.

I'm afraid I'll have to respectfully disagree - this may be a different time, but all of our current economic problems are rooted in the neoliberal financial crisis of 2008 and it is impossible to understand how we got where we are now without acknowledging that.

2008 may have been caused principally by the subprime bubble, but what's about to burst on us now has been called the "everything bubble" from the perspective of multiple economists.

Digitization is certainly the norm, but I can assure you that inflation is still a highly constrictive force for the majority of consumers - and central banks are counting on that to bring demand down and cool off the rising prices.

It will indeed depend on the state of international relations and geopolitical tensions to determine how volatile the commodities market will become, but if there is a major global debt crisis as I believe there will be, there's really no predicting how things will play out, aside from the collapse of global supply-chains and a depression-like scenario.