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The conclusion that soaring asset prices mean the economy is strong is a hallucination that goes unrecognized because the entire financial system is hallucinating. Consider the data that the financial sector bases conclusions / decisions on (i.e. the data that the financial sector “trains” on) in a Bubble Economy like the present. The…

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A heist has a scoreboard. After the robbery, you don’t argue about theories. You count what’s missing. For fifty years, we’ve been told a story: that your struggle is a personal failure. That the economy is just “evolving.” That the system is broken. The system is not broken. It was…

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Do you have a silver card? I do. I live in New London, Connecticut, and while I don’t get EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfers) anymore, I still carry the card as a talisman. It’s nestled in my wallet right behind my driver’s license. It reminds me that there was a time…

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The Trumpian attack on immigrants is about as anti-supply side, pro-statist and inimical to free market prosperity as it gets. As we have seen in Parts 1 & 2, immigrant labor accounted for 42% of the thundering 3.62% annual real GDP growth during the golden age of American industrial expansion between 1870…

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Whitney Webb is right. America is One Nation Under Blackmail. From the White House to Congress to state governors and legislators to the mainstream media to mega churches and televangelists, they are on the take. And the godfather with the money—our money (and the enforcers to make sure they take the bribes)—is Israel. From…

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The people of Honduras had not yet made up their minds. So, Donald Trump intervened to help them. The major candidates in Sunday’s election were Rixi Moncada, the former defense minister of the ruling left-wing LIBRE party, who had promised to continue President Xiomara Castro’s agenda; Nasry “Tito” Asfura, a…

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The Trump administration’s killings of scores of Venezuelans are justifiably provoking outrage. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently proclaimed, “We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists.” Donald Trump and Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that was written years earlier by President Barack Obama. In his 2017 farewell address,…

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On Wednesday, President Trump struck at the left’s agenda with a vengeance, announcing a relaxation of the onerous federal fuel standards imposed by the Biden administration.

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Mark Kelly and his cohorts know full well that military training is full of cautionary examples when it comes to the Geneva Accords and the Law of Land Warfare.

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Brian Dunaway wrote: The financial press is awash in alarms such as this, and among these are claxons from well-respected conservative billionaire investors not formerly disposed to hyperbole. This is not your father’s financial crisis, or for that matter your grandfathers’, or your great, great … Here’s the money paragraph: “What…

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In a recent article, The Intelligence Branch Answers to No One, J. B. Shurk posits the inherent danger to self-government of secrecy. “Can self-government exist alongside centralized intelligence agencies?  Espionage agencies seek secrets and keep secrets.  To the extent that they inform the public what they know, they decide which…

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European NATO allies have called a NATO Emergency Summit to discuss NATO’s continued existence and whether the US key partner could still be trusted. Every American signal of US withdrawal brings Russia closer to her target – defeating NATO, not with bullets but with time. This is being recognized gradually…

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The knives are out for the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The leaks from the Pentagon about him will continue until Hegseth is gone. The officers do not want a boss who is giving illegal orders while scapegoating the generals and soldiers who follow them: At the White House on Monday, Karoline Leavitt, the…

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