“That the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, BIS, JPMorganChase, and IMF refuse to answer the questions spelled out here shows that they fear that exposure can beat them.”
Read more: http://www.gata.org/node/18368
“Global foreign direct investment flows were down 18% in 2017 from the previous year and nearly 24% from its post-recession high in 2015, which the OECD attributed to a surge in financial and corporate restructuring.”
Read more: https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/11/news/economy/foreign-direct-investment-2017/index.html
“Bringing in more tax revenues doesn’t help if spending goes up even faster. And that has, unfortunately, been the case, as the GOP-controlled Congress has gone on a spending spree.”
Read more: http://blog.independent.org/2018/07/16/u-s-collects-record-tax-revenue-but-deficits-keep-piling-up/
“If any other government department spent as much and accomplished as little, the populace would be in arms.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/war-doesnt-make-sense-anymore/
“One out of every 14 children in the U.S. has had a parent imprisoned. Today there are over two million children are growing up in U.S. households in which one or more parents are incarcerated.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/396226-children-are-one-of-the-war-on-drugs-casualties
“For fans of the 2002 Tom Cruise film ‘Minority Report,’ this will sound like life catching up with art.”
“Thank the Trump tariffs on imported washing machines, washing machine parts, steel, and aluminum for the largest three-month price increase—16.4% from February to May this year—in the 40-year history of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) series for Major Appliances: Laundry Equipment.”
“More than 50 years later, President Trump is getting excoriated for doing what Kennedy did — rejecting the admonitions of the U.S. deep state and reaching out to Russia in a spirit of peace and friendship.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/07/17/the-deep-state-went-after-jfk-on-russia-too/
“It was the single greatest blow to the War Party since it turned Imperial Washington into a colossal menace bent on global hegemony when the Soviet Union slithered off the pages of history in 1991.”
“Federal agencies seized over $5 billion in 2014, which was more than the amount of property burglarized that same year, $3.9 billion.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/keeping-cops-hands-out-of-your-pockets/