America

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Submitted by Eric Margolis via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

President Dwight Eisenhower’s warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex made half a century ago ring as loud and clear today. The soft coup being mounted against the Trump government by America’s ‘deep state’ reached a new intensity this week as special interests battled for control of Washington.

Trump Is Playing You

Note: Soren K is a group of 4 writers to whom I contribute on commodity market posts-Vince Lanci

Written by Soren K and MarketSlant. 

From the Slope of Hope: Since today is President's Day, I think I'll write about something Presidential. And this quote from our patron saint George Carlin is absolutely crucial to the piece:

 "When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat."

Over the weekend we noted that the Trump administration was considering changing the U.S. trade deficit calculation to exclude re-exports from the US trade balance, a shift that would make America's trade gap appear even greater than it has been in recent years, potentially making future trade skirmishes and wars with America's export-heavy trade partners far more likely (see "White House May Change Calculation Of US Trade Deficit, Boosting Trade War Odds").