On Saturday, federal agents in Minneapolis killed protester Alex Pretti, shooting him in the back 10 times after they had taken away the pistol he legally carried. White House Deputy Chief Stephen Miller quickly settled the issue: “A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists.”
It’s increasingly difficult to imagine anything the Trump administration can do that conservatives and Republicans will not make excuses for. There is apparently no federal power and no act by the US’s standing army of federal cops that Trump supporters won’t endorse.
The latest example is Republicans’ new assault on the Second Amendment and against private citizens carrying firearms. GOP mouthpieces are informing us that Americans are not allowed to be armed with a gun at a protest.
In order to make data “talk,” economists utilize a range of statistical methods that vary from highly-complex models to a simple display of historical data. It is generally held that, through establishing correlations, one can organize historical data into a useful body of information, which, in turn, could serve as the basis for the assessment of the state of the present and future economy.
“President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would like to appoint Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to chair the Federal Reserve.”
“Gold prices tore past another milestone, with tariff threats against Canada and the possibility of a fresh U.S. government shutdown adding fuel to the metal’s historic rally.”
Donald Trump has proven Horton’s Law, that politicians only keep their bad promises, true once again. He was always a New York Democrat billionaire, and he was never going to be a champion of working people or free markets. Trump is a Likudnik, not America First, and always was the former and never the latter. The Democrats were right that Trump was an agent of a foreign government; they just got the wrong government. Trump is an Israeli agent, not a Russian agent.
The purchasing power of the US dollar has been debased by over 99 percent since the foundation of the Federal Reserve. (An ounce of gold cost $20.67 in 1913. According to the Wall Street Journal as of Friday, January 16 its price was $4,588.40. That means that the dollar is worth less than one half of one percent of its 1913 purchasing power [$20.67/$4,588.40=.0045]). Its remaining purchasing power may eventually become zero. There is no discipline in US spending and the Fed has become a willing accomplice to this crime.
History presents us with a troubling paradox: states that most fervently defend economic freedom at home often pursue the most aggressive foreign policies. Nineteenth-century Britain—the birthplace of free trade and the Industrial Revolution—was also home to the largest colonial empire in history. Today, the United States—certainly one of the freest economies—maintains nearly 800 military bases around the world.
