America

Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

Authored by Steve H. Hanke of the Johns Hopkins University. Follow him on Twitter @Steve_Hanke.

Earlier this week, Nobelist Vernon L. Smith penned an important piece, “Trump’s Best Deal Ever: Privatize the Interstate,” which was published in The Wall Street Journal. Smith correctly argued that the Trump administration should expand the scope of its privatization efforts to include the Federal government’s vast holdings of commercial public lands.

Somebody is taking Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's lighthearted musings about running for president a little too seriously.

In a formal filing with the FEC first reported by The Hill, somebody has filed to create the campaign committee to draft Dwayne Johnson, the highest-paid actor in Hollywood who is better known by his WWE wrestling moniker “The Rock,” into running for office.

Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,

The disgrace of America’s putative intellectual class is nearly complete as it shoves the polity further into dysfunction and toward collapse. These are the people Nassim Taleb refers to as “intellectuals-yet-idiots.” Big questions loom over this dynamic: How did the thinking class of America sink into this slough of thoughtlessness? And why – what is motivating them?

Ever more official lies from the US government

Paul Craig Roberts

The false reality constructed for Americans parallels perfectly the false reality constructed by Big Brother in George Orwells’ dystopic novel 1984.