Richard Werner discussed three different views of banking during his appearance on the Tucker Carlson show:

In previous “Tariffs Won’t . . .” articles, I pointed out that President Trump’s tariffs won’t reverse the decline of America’s industries, save the US dollar, or optimize the well-being of productive Americans.

When President Donald Trump announced a 50 percent tariff on imports from Brazil due to political persecutions against his former ally, ex-President Jair Messias Bolsonaro—who is currently ineligible to run for office and facing

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The BLS has reported a slight uptick of the CPI inflation rate, to 3.1 percent. Reporters who dislike Donald Trump are assuming that this uptick in price inflation must be due to President Trump’s tariffs. This is really no different than when people who disliked Joe Biden falsely blamed inflation on his fiscal deficits.

There was a day when Las Vegas’s economy was driven by Benny Binion’s simple philosophy: “Good food, good whiskey cheap, and a good gamble.”