Government

The Sum of All Broken Promises

May 12, 2020 0

The restless public, cooped up and idled in springtime’s flowering, have watched Wall Street doing just fine while they see the approaching sunset of their own much more modest Paycheck Protection Program and coronavirus relief […]

Government

How States/Empires Collapse in Four Easy Steps

March 14, 2019 0

CHARLES HUGH SMITH The promises cannot be met, and so society decays into warring elites and competing constituencies. There is a grand, majestic tragedy in the inevitable collapse of once-thriving states and empires: it all seemed […]

Financial

Fed Spooking Markets – Gregory Mannarino

March 6, 2018 0

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Early Sunday Release) Professional trader Gregory Mannarino says the new Fed Head, Jerome Powell, caused the market to sell off last week, not Trump tariff talk. Powell blurted out in Congressional testimony that […]

Media

The Value of Everything

July 26, 2017 0

We are looking more and more like France on the eve of its revolution in 1789. Our classes are distributed differently, but the inequity is just as sharp. America’s “aristocracy,” once based strictly on bank […]