America

Given the left’s predilection for using identity politics to slander opponents and incite hatred, it’s important to try and shed light on who actually thinks what. In the latest People’s Pundit Daily poll to “correct the record,” President-elect Donald J. Trump’s favorability has risen slightly above Bloomberg’s December 7th calculation of 51% in advance of Inauguration day. Solid gains were realized across the diverse rainbow of humanity that is America. For those who don’t know, PPD is one of the few polling organizations which nailed the election, and their methods are sound.

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

Profits are faltering for structural reasons that are not easily resolved..

The bedrock assumption of the Bull market is that corporate profits will keep rising indefinitely. Hiccups are allowed, but current stock market valuations are implicitly based on profits expanding.

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

The rising hysteria about Russia is best understood as fulfilling two needs for Official Washington: the Military Industrial Complex’s transitioning from the “war on terror” to a more lucrative “new cold war” – and blunting the threat that a President Trump poses to the neoconservative/liberal-interventionist foreign-policy establishment.

 

Obama has deployed US Special Forces close to the Russian border to defend Baltic states who are allegedly ‘scared to death’ of Putin’s aggression. As part of a “persistent” presence of American troops in the Baltics, dozens of special ops solders will be being stationed along Europe’s eastern flank to provide reassurance to NATO allies Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. They will also complement around 4,000 Nato troops being posted to Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia in the coming months.

In a CNBC interview today with San Fransicko's Fed Williams, we heard several things that have been repeated ad nauseam by the establishment elite.