America

Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,

In his first public event since returning to Washington, D.C. from an overseas trip,
President Trump is scheduled to give remarks during a Memorial Day wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday morning.

Trump has been tweeting his support of the nation's bravest already...

Honoring the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to America. Home of the free, because of the brave. #MemorialDay????????

As reported over the weekend, having returned from his first foreign trip president Trump is preparing a "war room" in response to the barrage of Russian news blanketing the media, and plans to restructure the White House communications strategy and possibly staffing.

The US economy is struggling with too much debt at every level. A debt jubilee isn’t going to solve it; and shifting demographics will likely make it worse. So, is America headed for two decades of lost growth like Japan? Dr. Lacy Hunt, who was interviewed by Erik Townsend on the latter's MacroVoices podcast, considers the endgame for the US economy... Well, we could get lucky, Hunt says.

Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,

There are times when you have to talk about things when it appears most inopportune to do so, because they’re the only times people might listen. Times when people will argue that ‘this is not the right moment’, while in reality it’s the only moment.