Seemingly reassuring conservatives, especially his fiscally hawkish former Tea-Party member Budget Director, President Trump warned that America's "[spending] was out of control," as officials gathered to discuss the budget, adding that there is "enormous work to do on the national debt."
While stocks did not blink, Trump's comments definitely angled more fiscal hawk than free-spending deficit dove.
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
Independent enterprises are a source of political and financial independence... and any independent class is dangerous to the ruling elites.
The disenfranchised, hurt-feeling liberals of California, who are herding towards 'CalExit' in ever-increasing numbers since the election of Donald Trump, are about to face up to an ugly reality in their perception of their virtue-signaling. As NYT reports, the president of the 'Yes California' movement lives in Russia.
Submitted by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,