In his first public appearance since his wife's catastrophic loss in the presidential election, former President Bill Clinton appears to have gone off-script once again warning repeatedly against "us versus them" thinking that he said has become such an active part of politics in America, in the Brexit vote, in the Philippines and throughout Europe.
Via MauldinEconomics.com,
I’ve written about this before, but there are 10 million American males between the age of 24 and 64 who have literally dropped out of the workforce. It means that they have given up on finding a job or are simply not looking.
But, focusing on just one subset among those who are 24–64, we see that white working-class males’ labor force participation rate has dropped to 59%.
For 45 years - until Alan Greenspan in 1994 - the average wealth-to-income of American households had held steady around 4.9x - but as of Q4 2016, for the first time in US history, household wealth has reached a point where it is 6.5 times large than inflation-adjusted household disposable income in America.
Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,
To back up Defense Secretary “Mad Dog” Mattis’ warning last month, that the U.S. “remains steadfast in its commitment” to its allies, President Donald Trump is sending B-1 and B-52 bombers to Korea.
Some 300,000 South Korean and 15,000 U.S. troops have begun their annual Foal Eagle joint war exercises that run through April.
With US crude inventories at record highs and production surging higher, the ongoing oil rig count rise in America (up 8 to 617 - 8th week in a row and highest since Sept 2015) signals more 'problems' ahead for a record level of speculative long positioning in black gold.