America

A little over 4 years ago Obama infamously mocked Governor Mitt Romney for his assertion that Russia was America's number one geopolitical foe...

"Governor Romney, I'm glad that you recognize that Al Qaeda's a threat.  Because a few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America you said 'Russia'.  The 1980's are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War has been over for 20 years."

Authored by Jeff Reeves via The Hill

I’m not a fan of the “greed is good” mentality of Wall Street investment firms. But the next financial crisis that rocks America won’t be driven by bankers behaving badly. It will in fact be driven by pension funds that cannot pay out what they promised to retirees. According to one pension advocacy organization, nearly 1 million working and retired Americans are covered by pension plans at the risk of collapse.

Authored by Justin Raimondo via TheAntiMedia.org,

The allegation – now accepted as incontrovertible fact by the “mainstream” media – that the Russian intelligence services hacked the Democratic National Committee (and John Podesta’s emails) in an effort to help Donald Trump get elected recently suffered a blow from which it may not recover.

From Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management, here is a topical anecdote, as well as a review of the key events in the past week.

Weekend Notes

“Where’s the beef?” bellowed Biggie Too. “Health care, regulation reform, tax cuts – where’s it at?” continued the Chief Global Strategist for one of those too big to fail affairs.

“You boys were always gonna face this moment,” barked Biggie, sliding into a slow groove.

The Democratic Party’s Death by Identity Politics

Guest Column by Michael Hudson

Read it. It is superb.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46733.htm

Wall Street First
By Michael Hudson