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Why Is Productivity Dead in the Water?
Why Is Productivity Dead in the Water? The only possible output of this system is extortion as a way of life. As the accompanying chart shows, productivity in the U.S. has been declining since the early 2000s. This trend mystifies economists, as the tremendous investments in software, robotics, networks and mobile computing would be expected […]
Loonie Slides As Canadian Officials Reportedly Doubt NAFTA Deal Will Get Done
Loonie Slides As Canadian Officials Reportedly Doubt NAFTA Deal Will Get Done Despite outwardly optimistic appearances from Canada’s Freeland, talks between Canadian and U.S. trade negotiators reportedly turned sour last night and Trudeau government officials are now expressing concern that a final NAFTA deal will not be concluded on Friday. “That was a long, intensive […]
How Corrupt America’s Dictators Are
How Corrupt America’s Dictators Are Yet another poll confirms that America’s dictatorial clique take advantage of the ignorance and gullibility of the average person so that the clique’s politicians can win votes no matter how much these politicians block passage and enforcement of any proposed laws that the dictators don’t want to pass or to […]
Are Multiple “Failed Coups” Leading To The Engineered Fall Of America
Are Multiple “Failed Coups” Leading To The Engineered Fall Of America There has been a lot of talk about “coups” the past two years, not just in the U.S. but around the globe. As I have noted in recent articles, failed coups in particular have been very popular as a way for certain governments to […]
Economic Crisis Looms In Iran As Sanctions Bite
Economic Crisis Looms In Iran As Sanctions Bite In a little over two months, painful U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil sector will take effect, but the Iranian economy is already showing signs of strain. Iran’s currency, the rial, has fallen by more than half since the start of the year. There is now a thriving […]
Inflation Has Run Amok – Danielle DiMartino Booth
Inflation Has Run Amok – Danielle DiMartino Booth Former Fed insider Danielle DiMartino Booth is sure the Fed is going to raise interest rates again at the September meeting. Why? DiMartino Booth explains, “I think he’s (Jerome Powell) the most independent Fed Chair in the past 30 years, and I think he’s going to raise […]
Why America can’t understand the Middle East
Why America can’t understand the Middle East American thinking bends toward an attempt to remake the world in its own image. This fatal exceptionalism leads writers like David Ignatius into misreading events in the Arab world A recent editorial in the Washington Post, written by columnist David Ignatius, offers a shining example of the United States’ […]
The Sun Does Not Revolve Around the US
The Sun Does Not Revolve Around the US While visiting Galileo’s house in Florence, Jean Ranc reflected on how America thinks the world revolves around it, as it was once falsely thought the sun revolves around the earth. On a sunny day last January, my visit to Florence took me deep into the Tuscan hills […]
Watching America’s Collapse
Watching America’s Collapse Existence is running out for America In the 1950s and 1960s the United States was a vibrant society. Upward mobility was strong, and the middle class expanded. During the 1970s the internal contradiction in Keynesian demand management resulted in stagflation. Reagan’s supply-side economic policy cured that. With a sound economy under him, […]
How to interfere in a foreign election
How to interfere in a foreign election FOR ONE OF THE world’s major powers to interfere systematically in the presidential politics of another country is an act of brazen aggression. Yet it happened. Sitting in a distant capital, political leaders set out to assure that their favored candidate won an election against rivals who scared […]
Weekly Commentary: Powell, Greenspan and Whatever it Takes
Weekly Commentary: Powell, Greenspan and Whatever it Takes Fed Chairman Powell is in a tough spot, one made no easier now that he’s on the receiving end of disapproving presidential tweets. The global Bubble has begun to falter, which only exacerbates divergences between various markets and economies. The U.S. is booming, while China struggles and […]
Discretion in the Hands of Every Government Agent = Tyranny
Discretion in the Hands of Every Government Agent = Tyranny There has been an interesting case of an American Muslim woman who had her phone seized by border guards as she returned home to the United States from a trip to Switzerland. The guards just seized her phone and she had to file a lawsuit […]
North Korea Blasts “Double-Dealing” US After Pompeo’s Canceled Trip
North Korea Blasts “Double-Dealing” US After Pompeo’s Canceled Trip The war drums are starting to beat again. The North Korean media lashed out at the “double-dealing” US for “hatching a criminal plot” against Pyongyang, days after Donald Trump told Secretary of State Mike Pompe to cancel his upcoming trip to North Korea. In an editorial, […]
Russia Sends Largest Naval Armada Of Syrian War Amidst New Chemical Attack Warnings
Russia Sends Largest Naval Armada Of Syrian War Amidst New Chemical Attack Warnings We observed previously after John Bolton’s threat late this week of “greater military force” should chemical weapons allegations emerge against Damascus, that a familiar pattern has long been in play on Syria: just when it appears the jihadists are on the brink of […]
Russian Official Shocks By Urging Tactical Nuke Deployment In Syria After Bolton Warning
Russian Official Shocks By Urging Tactical Nuke Deployment In Syria After Bolton Warning The long-running US and Russian proxy war in Syria has been largely forgotten of late, but suddenly snapped back into international headlines with John Bolton’s warning Assad and Russia this week that Washington will respond with “greater military force” should claims of […]
