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Weekend Reading: Tax Cut Wish List

Weekend Reading: Tax Cut Wish List

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,

On Wednesday, the President announced his plan to cut taxes for Americans, return jobs to America and return the country to economic prosperity.

It’s a tall order to fill, and the proposed tax reform is a “Christmas Wish List” that will have to checked twice to determine which parts are “naughty” and “nice.”

As I pointed out yesterday,

NFL Favorability Crashes

According to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, the National Football League is seen as more unfavorable than ever before

"The NFL's net favorability has dropped from 30% on September 21 to 17% on September 28," the poll shows.

Do you have a favorable or unfavorable impression of the following - National Football League?

Source: Morning Consult Intelligence

Among Trump supporters, as would be expected, the collapse is remarkable...

Source: Morning Consult Intelligence

What's The Matter With Inflation?

Via Global Macro Monitor,

What’s The Matter Kansas  inflation?

The divergence of official inflation as measured by the government versus inflation realized by the consumer and businesses has never been greater, in our opinion.   Go ask anybody on the street in America and Europe if think “doing life or business”  is getting  more expensive. 

We have some thoughts on what is the matter with the inflation data:

Everything is Racist, And You’re a Terrible Person

Via The Daily Bell

Everything you do and think is racist, you probably just don’t realize it because you’re so super privileged.

You can’t just sit back and hide in your white supremacist neighborhoods anymore. There’s no more abstaining from taking a side on this one. The sins of your ancestors have caught up to you! (Or at least the sins of the ancestors of people who look like you, considering most white Americans are descended from post-Civil War immigrants.)

Vietnam Shows How To Clean Up The Banking System: Ex-Banker Sentenced To Death For Fraud

Vietnam Shows How To Clean Up The Banking System: Ex-Banker Sentenced To Death For Fraud

The lack of prosecution of US bankers responsible for the great financial crisis has been a much debated topic over the years, leading to the coinage of such terms as "Too Big To Prosecute", the termination of at least one corrupt DOJ official, the revelation that Eric Holder is the most useless Attorney General in history, and of course billions in cash kickbacks between Wall Street and D.C.

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