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Emails Reveal Trump Admin Mulling Big Oil Plan to Transfer Public Land to States
Emails Reveal Trump Admin Mulling Big Oil Plan to Transfer Public Land to States During its first year under Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Interior has coordinated closely with the oil and gas industry to accomplish its priorities on the nation’s expansive federal lands. Among them: considering a plan to transfer control of oil and gas development on public […]
What’s Going Down in China is Very Dangerous – Part 2
What’s Going Down in China is Very Dangerous – Part 2 One of the more concerning ramifications of China’s recent turn toward a more totalitarian stance at home is what it means for the geopolitical environment in the years ahead. Several people asked in the comment section of Part 1 why I care about what’s […]
Canada Will be the Most Impact by a Steel Tariff
Canada Will be the Most Impact by a Steel Tariff Canada is the largest exporter of steel to the United States. The decline in the Canadian dollar has helped this trend in particular. Trump is clueless when it comes to the impact of currency on foreign trade. If he wants to do tariffs, they MUST […]
Someone Tell a Reporter: the Rich are Destroying the Earth
Someone Tell a Reporter: the Rich are Destroying the Earth “I Said Why? They Said They Didn’t Know” Let history record that on Wednesday, September 6th, 2017, 14 days after climate change-fueled Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas and 4 days before Hurricane Irma hit southern Florida, the climate-denying President of the United States Donald […]
Let The Trade Wars Begin: Trump Says He Will Impose Steel, Aluminum Tariffs Next Week
Let The Trade Wars Begin: Trump Says He Will Impose Steel, Aluminum Tariffs Next Week Update III: After the White House said earlier that today’s meeting would be a “listening” meeting, President Trump has taken investors by surprise by announcing that he will impose the long-rumored aluminum and steel sanctions next week. As expected, Trump […]
Goldilocks is Dead
GOLDILOCKS IS DEAD “Once you strip out the effects of the debt binge, the artificial stimulus via currency depreciation, and the fabled ‘wealth effect’ from the equity market runup, real GDP growth stripped-down to its core was the grand total of 0.7% last year. Potemkin would be proud.” – David Rosenberg It appears every president […]
Growing Risk of U.S.-Iran Hostilities Based on False Pretexts, Intel Vets Warn
Growing Risk of U.S.-Iran Hostilities Based on False Pretexts, Intel Vets Warn As President Donald Trump prepares to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week, a group of U.S. intelligence veterans offers corrections to a number of false accusations that have been levelled against Iran. February 26, 2018 MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for […]
Trump Warns World Of “Very, Very Unfortunate Phase 2” If North Korean Sanctions Fail
Trump Warns World Of “Very, Very Unfortunate Phase 2” If North Korean Sanctions Fail If you weren’t paying attention, you might have missed it; but during today’s joint press conference with Aussie PM Turnbull, US President Trump let slip a brief comment that the rest of the world should likely be paying close attention to. […]
How China Could Freeze the US Military
How China Could Freeze the US Military Last April, President Trump launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Syria. He was responding to an alleged chemical weapons attack by Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian government. It was Trump’s most dramatic military move since he became president. It was also the United States’ first deliberate attack on the Syrian […]
ECB minutes reveal fears over Trump currency wars
ECB minutes reveal fears over Trump currency wars Account of January meeting also show communications differences on QE A man wearing a monkey costume passes in front of the old European Central Bank building in Frankfurt, Germany Photograph: EPA Euro zone concerns over the weakness of the dollar were laid bare in a set of […]
The Great Danger of Anthropocentricity
The Great Danger of Anthropocentricity Photo by Becker1999 | CC BY 2.0 Evincing an almost unbelievable ignorance of environmental science, last week Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, told reporters “we know humans have most flourished during times of warming trends. So I think there are assumptions made that […]
Risking Major Escalation, Trump Weighs Killing Of Russian Fighters In Syria As Sign Of “Tough Stance” Toward Putin
Risking Major Escalation, Trump Weighs Killing Of Russian Fighters In Syria As Sign Of “Tough Stance” Toward Putin In the aftermath of Robert Mueller’s indictment against 13 Russian “operatives” for meddling with the US presidential election, President Trump has been under fire for lashing out at everyone… except Russia. So, in response, Bloomberg reports that […]
“Strong Dollar,” “Weak Dollar,” What About a Gold-Backed Dollar?
“Strong Dollar,” “Weak Dollar,” What About a Gold-Backed Dollar? The recent hullabaloo among President Trump’s top monetary officials about the Administration’s “dollar policy” is just the start of what will likely be the first of many contradictory pronoucements and reversals which will take place in the coming months/years as the world’s reserve currency continues to be […]
Russiagate Isn’t About Trump, And It Isn’t Even Ultimately About Russia
Russiagate Isn’t About Trump, And It Isn’t Even Ultimately About Russia MSNBC’s Chris Hayes recently asked a question of his Twitter following that was so heavily loaded it wouldn’t be permitted on most interstate highways: “Aside from genuine cranks, is there anyone left denying it was the Russians that committed criminal sabotage in the American election?” […]
