America

Via ConvergEx's Nicholas Colas,

This last Morning Markets Briefing of 2016 is our quarterly look at “Off the Grid” economic indicators. 

 

Following Newt Gingrich's comments yesterday that Donald Trump no longer wants to drain the swamp, it appears the president-elect is not best pleased with this narrative...

Someone incorrectly stated that the phrase "DRAIN THE SWAMP" was no longer being used by me. Actually, we will always be trying to DTS.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2016

Christmas Column, 2016

Dear Donors, thank you for your support in 2016. Although you have kept me working yet another year, I find it encouraging that there are some Americans who can think independently and who want to know. As Margaret Mead said, it only takes a few determined people to change the world. Perhaps some of you will be those people.

Submitted by Bob Livingston via PersonalLiberty.com,

Almost everything you think and do is against your best interest and you don’t even realize it. It’s planned that way.

The state seeks absolute control of your mind, body and spirit. Can the state succeed? It has, but only a precious few ever know.

Your mind and your thoughts are not your own. Almost every thought you have channels you toward the state.

Submitted by Michael Lucci via IllinoisPolicy.org,

Illinois has record loss of 114,000 residents to other states in 2016 as population shrinks by 37,500.