America

Murdering the Innocent in Order to Support the Lie

Paul Craig Roberts

Unbeknownst to most Americans, the Central Valley of California is an agricultural powerhouse producing nearly 50% of all fruits and vegetables grown in the United States, including over 90% of popular items like almonds, carrots and table grapes.  But producing all those fruits and vegetables is extremely labor intensive requiring up to nearly 500,000 laborers each year.  The problem is that those jobs are extremely seasonal (see chart below) and extremely difficult requiring hours of back-breaking work in the 100-degree California sun.

Submitted by Andrew Napolitano via LewRockwell.com,

Over the New Year’s weekend, President Barack Obama’s chief policy adviser and closest strategist, Valerie Jarrett, told a talk show host that her boss would have a happy legacy because there was an absence of scandal in his administration.

 

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.