Long on Theater, Short on Policy

US Shadow Bankers About to Deepen Control of US Economy

Democrat party leaders are proving themselves not only strategically myopic since the 2016 election, but tactically inept as well

Your stewardship of the U.S. economy has allowed us to keep 5 percent of all the national income created since the last recession in 2009; while you wealthiest 1 percent got to keep the other 95 percent
created since the last recession in 2009; while you wealthiest 1 percent got to keep the other 95 percent

The ruling elite in America have been battling it out with ‘right populist’ challengers over who will define US policy in the decade ahead. Thus far in 2017 the elite have been clearly winning

After 8 years of pumping free money into private banks, corporations, and investors, the U.S. central bank has begun a desperate effort to raise interest rates and try to slow the flow of liquidity

Is it a currency that is going to replace the dollar or is it a classical commodity speculative financial bubble?

Is it the new ‘subprime mortgage’ bomb?

With the Senate and House all but assured to pass the US$4.5 trillion in tax cuts for businesses, investors, phases two and three of the Trump-Republican fiscal strategy have begun quickly to take shape

As this Thanksgiving holiday comes to an end and the Xmas season approaches, let’s not forget to give thanks to our richest 1% fellow Americans and their corporations