Tag Archives: Trump

Love it or hate it, the potency of the Trump Administration is on the wane, soon to be stuck in the mire of the Swamp it has deepend instead of drained, while the economy falls into one hell of a recession — so claims former Regan-era Cabinet member and Congressman David Stockman.

In his new book Peak Trump, Stockman notes how the wide divergence between Trump the campaigner and Trump the president appears to be proving to be his undoing.

Rather than fight to dismantle the institutions he railed against as a candidate — most notably the Deep State and the Federal Reserve — Trump has embraced them.

Now, when this latest asset bubble bursts (and Stockman believes the markets saw their peak back in Fall 2018), Trump will 'own' that. Having chosen to tie his administration's success to the rising price of the S&P 500 since taking office, he won't be able to foist the blame of a market crash on his predecessors.

Similarly, the Deep State — especially the military industrial complex — is experiencing a bonanza under the Trump administration. As a result, the Swamp is deeper than it has ever been.

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• The Golden State Killer Is Tracked Through a Thicket of DNA, and Experts Shudder
• The cost of raising a child in America has soared — it’s a price tag fit for a prince
• Terrorism Vs. Natural Disasters: Which Costs More? Which Kills More?
• Chris Hedges: What we can learn from the collapse of the Chaco Canyon civilisation
• Pipeline shortage could choke North America’s oil supply with ‘serious implications for global markets’, IEA warns
• Trump Strikes A Blow For Retirees Worried About Enviros Wallowing Out Pensions
• Tabasco Sauce Is in a Battle For Its Very Survival
• Learning to Speak Shrub

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• Stocks and Precious Metals Charts – Blue Monday – How Are the Mighty Mispricings of Risk Fallen 
• A Timeline Of The FBI And DOJ's Involvement In Hillary's Emails And The Trump Dossier
• How much are illegal activities behind the demand for crypto-currency?
• The Market Meltdown Is an Ominous Sign
• FEMA Contract Called for 30 Million Meals for Puerto Ricans. 50,000 Were Delivered.
• Shale Reality Check
• Oil Prices Ravaged By Financial Turmoil 
• Arctic permafrost home to large mercury reserves, study finds 

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• The Science Of Loneliness
• The dark side of your $5 Footlong: Business owners say it could bite them
• These Will Be the Big Stories of 2018
• Stop reading what Facebook tells you to read
• Too much screening has misled us about real cancer risk factors, experts say
• Why American doctors keep doing expensive procedures that don’t work
• It's Time For Innovators To Take Responsibility For Their Creations
• Americans Will Eat a Record Amount of Meat in 2018

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Following up on our recent warning about the situation in Syria, Chris sits down this week for a conversation with The Saker, who writes extensively on geo-political and military matters. The Saker (a nom-de-plume), is a former intelligence expert with professional and personal insights into Russia and the Middle East.

He shares our deep concern for the dangerously misdirected current state of US foreign and military policy, as well as the potentially lethal repercussions these threaten to have in the powderkeg that is Syria.

In this week's podcast, The Saker provides an excellent distillation of the complex forces in play in Syria — as well as in the brewing friction between the US and Russia — and why the risk of nuclear war has now grown higher than it has been in decades.

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Steen Jakobsen back on, Chief Investment Officer of Saxo Bank, returns to the podcast this week to share with us the warning signs of slowing economic growth he's seeing in major markets all over the world.

In his view, the world economy is sputtering badly. So badly, that he's confident predicting a global recession by 2018 — or sooner.

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As I’ve written extensively in the past, as was the case with Russia last fall, this push to war includes a series of carefully-crafted talking points being endlessly repeated over the print and airwaves. 

It’s an ever-present condition of living in our manufactured reality, where what we are told to care about is beamed at us around the clock  in a rather tediously but emotionally-manipulative way on the “news.”

Today's big ‘bogeyman’ is North Korea.  Have you wondered why?

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