by Keith Weiner

Unless you’re living under a rock, you know that we have an administered interest rate. This means that the bureaucrats at the Federal Reserve decide what’s good for the little people. Then they impose it on us.

In trying to return to freedom, many people wonder why couldn’t we let the market set the interest rate. After all, we don’t have a Corn Control Agency or a Lumber Board (pun intended). So why do we have a Federal Open Market Committee? It’s a very good question.

You Want War With Russia?

In this article, Pepe Escobar spells out the across-the-board military superiority of Russia over the combined forces of the West: http://www.opednews.com/articles/You-Want-War-Russia-is-Re-by-Pepe-Escobar-NATO_Putin_Russia-And-Turkey_Russia-And-Us-Conflict-151216-994.html

The reckless arrogance of the American neoconservaives has blinded the White House Fool and the dumbshits that sit in the House and Senate to the disastrous consequences for the West of war with Russia.

Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,

Faith in an ideology based on a desire for power over others and the need to feel personally superior without any legitimate accomplishment is perhaps the most dangerous state of being an individual or society can adopt. I would refer to such a mindset as “zealotry,” an integral element of cultism and an extreme result of the elitist side of faith.

The "long dollar" trade may be the most crowded ever...

...but that doesn't mean there aren't disagreements where the greenback goes from here, especially after the Fed's historic first rate hike which according to some means the end of the dollar's tremendous year-plus long rally as the market starts to price in the next recession as a result of the Fed's own action, while according to others as a result of rate differentials and other central banks' ongoing debasement of their own currencies, the dollar surge is only getting started.