President Killary
Would The World Survive President Hillary?

Paul Craig Roberts

This is an English translation of an article that I wrote for the German magazine, Compact. I was encouraged by the high level of intelligent discourse that Compact brings to its readers. If only the US had more people capable of reaching beyond entertainment to comprehending the forces that affect them, there might be some hope for America.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

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Since the Fed may not, or simply refuses, to see if not a bubble then at least "froth" in any asset class, perhaps it should hire Peter Thiel to be on its macroproduential supervisory committee, because according to the venture capital legend who co-founded PayPal everything is overvalued. Speaking at the LendIt USA Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, he said that he is "somewhat concerned about the frothiness of the markets" and adds that "startup tech stocks may be overvalued, but so are public equities, so are houses, so are government bonds."

A top US manufacturer of lawn and garden pesticides said it plans to eliminate products containing the neonicotinoid class of chemicals, the use of which has been linked to a massive decline in honeybee population.

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,

The American public deserves the opportunity to vote for Sanders, Trump, and whatever hacks the two elitist war parties select.