America

Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,

Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com,

Over 3,000 millionaires have fled Chicago in recent months.

This is the largest outflow of wealthy people from any US city right now. It’s also one of the largest outflows of wealthy people in the world.

But it’s not just millionaires… Every five minutes someone leaves Illinois.

Authored by Ilana Mercer via The Mises Institute,

On the eve of the federal convention, and following its adjournment in September of 1787, the Anti-Federalists made the case that the Constitution makers in Philadelphia had exceeded the mandate they were given to amend the Articles of Confederation, and nothing more.

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

Consumerism is a simulacrum of real economic agency.

There is perhaps no better metric of class in America than personal power--what is known as agency: the power to influence or transform one's circumstances in a a self-directed manner. Those with agency have power, those without agency (or very limited agency) are essentially powerless.

Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson should think about sending Kim Jong Un a gift basket.