It was pretty obvious even before February 28th that the US economy was grinding to a halt, even as inflation was already working up a head of steam. But then came war. We are going to get a globe-shaking economic conflagration erupting from the void that was the Persian Gulf […]
The Donald plunged into one hell of a hornets nest when he took the bait from Bibi Netanyahu and launched an all out “kinetic” war on Iran (as distinguished from the brutal economic war Washington has been waging for decades). But now that the gasoline pump price has breached $4/gallon […]
It’s probably nothin’ according to the MAGA crowd and the Fed fanboys alike. But then again, anyone who has been paying attention to the financial metrics for more than two weeks might beg to differ. When you have the following eruption in real time, there is surely an economic earthquake rumbling ominously […]
Here’s one of the greatest certainties facing every household in America beyond the proverbial prospect of death and taxes: Namely, the monthly electric bill, as it arrives like clockwork either in the mail or by auto pay. And, according to Grok 4, there are approximately 143 million customers getting a metered bill […]
When we referred to the Donald’s cockamamie invasion of Venezuela, that’s exactly what we meant. Washington’s War on Cocaine is already unnecessarily killing 20,000 Americans per year via adulterated cocaine and thousands more in the course of moving contraband product through violent criminal syndicates from Colombia to the USA retail […]
Last year there were 178 million alcohol drinkers in the US, which, unfortunately, resulted in 178,000 alcohol related deaths in the US. That’s a regrettable 0.1% fatality rate among users. But alcohol isn’t illegal because America hasn’t forgotten the bitter lessons of the Prohibition disaster 100 years ago. By contrast, the only […]
Notwithstanding the historic fluidity of borders, there is no case whatsoever that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was “unprovoked” and unrelated to NATO’s own transparent provocations in the region. The details are arrayed below, but the larger issue needs be addressed first. Namely, is there any reason to […]
Afew months after the horrendous slaughter of World War I had been unleashed by the “guns of August 1914,” soldiers along the Western Front famously broke into spontaneous truces of Christmas celebration, song, and even exchange of gifts. For a brief moment they wondered why they were juxtaposed in lethal combat along […]
Here we go again. The Donald recently offered a constructive 28-point plan that implicitly and correctly identified America’s Homeland Security interest in Ukraine as nichts, nada, nugatory and nyet. Yet before the ink was dry the Washington neocon brigade that he foolishly invited back into his government to sabotage it […]
Once in a blue moon even a blind squirrel finds an acorn, or so the saying goes. But, boy, did the occupant of the office of presidency find a MOAPA (Mother Of All Policy Acorns): THE ONLY HEALTHCARE I WILL SUPPORT OR APPROVE IS SENDING THE MONEY DIRECTLY BACK TO THE […]