“The global economy is experiencing a structural breakdown in the conversion of financial claims into physical output. I define this failure as the Hard Bifurcation: the separation of the monetary economy from the physical economy. For forty years, the two systems moved together. Money flowed into markets, and goods flowed out. That linkage has broken.… Capital does not leave because confidence fades. It leaves because the protocol that once allowed dollars to become things no longer functions.”

~ Craig Tindale, “The Hard Bifurcation: The Convergence of Financial Liquidity and Physical Insolvency”