Politico reports on what may be the most ridiculous trial balloon of this election and maybe of all time:
A group of Republican donors and strategists has been working to persuade former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to make an independent bid for president, according to a memo outlining the plan obtained by POLITICO Florida.
The economy of the United States was destroyed almost overnight.
As VisualCapitalist's Jeff Desjardins notes, more than 5,000 banks collapsed, and there were 12 million people out of work in America as factories, banks, and other shops closed.
Former Congressman Ron Paul has said that he believes the U.S. empire is on the verge of collapse, but that the imminent collapse will be the best thing that has happened to the country in recent history. Dr. Paul told attendees at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Texas that America is showing signs of collapsing, just like every other empire before it did. “I believe… what our contention has to be right now is what is happening to our country from within,” he said. “And actually it’s very encouraging.
Submitted by Martin Armstrong via ArmstrongEconomics.com,
It’s not the hair.
Or the bad manners.
Or the “beautiful” wall he says he’ll build.
There’s a different, more subtle reason why the Republican establishment, donor class, political operatives, and the news media in general hate Donald Trump.
The reason can be found in a New York Times best selling business book, Stacking The Deck, by Wharton professor David Pottruck.
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Although the extent to which oil-related funding has sustained ISIS over the past couple of years is highly contested, it’s undeniable that the collapse in prices has had a negative cash flow impact on the terror threat du jour. As such, how’s the group sustaining itself in the fact of such a major cash crunch? According to a UK inquiry, we can thank donations from America’s Persian Gulf “allies.”