Ghosts are popping up everywhere: the Chinese workers who make handbags on the graveyard shift, the invisible assassins who take out Presidents and firefighters, and the spectre of past inflation. If you want to understand the world, you need to look through the looking glass more darkly. The nature of reality in geopolitics, monetary policy, and science is morphing into a new para-normal. The world economy and geopolitics will never be the same.