{"id":23939,"date":"2017-05-12T17:42:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T22:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23939"},"modified":"2017-05-12T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T22:42:09","slug":"hurricane-bearing-down-on-the-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23939","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Bearing Down on the Casino"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-10 medium-centered columns featured-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dweaay7e22a7h.cloudfront.net\/wp-content_3\/uploads\/2017\/05\/shutterstock_299401883-650x360.jpg\" alt=\"Hurricane Bearing Down on the Casino\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row content-body\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-10 medium-centered columns\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-2 columns\">\n<div class=\"row collapse meta-post-info\">\n<h3 class=\"hide-for-small medium-12 columns\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyreckoning.com\/hurricane-bearing-casino\/\">Hurricane Bearing Down on the Casino<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"single-article-body\" class=\"small-12 medium-10 columns single-article\">\n<p>[Urgent Note: The nation\u2019s future and a massive retail apocalypse hang in the balance as Trump pushes beyond his first\u00a0100 days. That\u2019s why I\u2019m on a mission to send my new book <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pro.agorafinancial.com\/m\/675880\">TRUMPED! A Nation on the Brink of Ruin\u2026 and How to Bring It Back<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>to every American who responds, absolutely free. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pro.agorafinancial.com\/m\/675880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here for more details<\/a><\/strong>.]<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I said the Donald was absolutely right in canning the insufferable James Comey, but that he has also has stepped on a terminal political land-mine. And he did.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because the entire Russian meddling and collusion narrative is a ridiculous, evidence-free attempt to re-litigate the last election. And now that the powers that be have all the justification they need. And what is already an irrational witch-hunt will be quickly turned into a scorched-earth assault on a sitting president.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea how this will play out, but as a youthful witness to history back in 1973-1974 I observed Tricky Dick\u2019s demise in daily slow motion. But the most memorable part of the saga was how incredibly invincible Nixon seemed in early 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Nixon started his second term, in fact, with a massive electoral landslide, strong public opinion polls and a completely functioning government and cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Even more importantly, he was still basking in the afterglow of his smashing 1972 foreign policy successes in negotiating detente and the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty with Brezhnev and then the historic opening to China on his Beijing trip.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019ll take the unders from anyone who gives the Donald even the 19 months that Nixon survived.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Bearing Down on the Casino [Urgent Note: The nation\u2019s future and a massive retail apocalypse hang in the balance as Trump pushes beyond his first\u00a0100 days. That\u2019s why I\u2019m on a mission to send my new book TRUMPED! A Nation on the Brink of Ruin\u2026 and How to Bring It Back\u00a0to every American who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15283,11023,2120,7844,411,1138],"class_list":["post-23939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-casino-stock-market","tag-daily-reckoning","tag-david-stockman","tag-donald-trump","tag-hurricane","tag-stock-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23940,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23939\/revisions\/23940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}