According to recent economic reports, US consumer confidence is soaring, but it depends who you ask. Based on the latest Evercore ISI survey, while there has indeed been a post-election spike in US consumer sentiment, it is mostly confined to states that supported Trump in the Presidential election, leading to the observation that "Post-Election Confidence Lifting Christmas Tree Sales In Trump States."
A CIA-led Coup Against American Democracy Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes
Paul Craig Roberts
This article by Moon of Alabama is not conspiracy theory: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46056.htm Read it carefully. Check out the links.
FBI director James Comey has announced his support for the CIA’s conclusion that Russia intervened in the U.S. election to help Donald Trump get elected. The announcement makes a drastic u-turn from the FBI’s previous announcement that Russia had nothing to do with hacking the election.
As Nick Colas writes, one thing is certain: 2016 was a truly historic year.
From Donald Trump’s unorthodox but successful campaign for President to the Brexit vote, popular votes shifted the course of global politics in ways very few could have imagined a year ago. Here is a brief quiz that highlights the year’s politics, developments in technology, and changes in the U.S. labor market/economic policy.
As of this moment, president Obama is on his way to Hawaii, having just concluded his final press conference for 2016, and one of the last in his tenure as president. What did we learn in the rambling speech that lasted nearly two hours and saw one of the White House reporters faint? Not much that wasn't already insinuated, if not proven, repeatedly: Obama stuck to the script, and said Russia "in fact" had "hacked into the DNC," but that the actual voting process was not compromised.