Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Unsurprisingly, the Republican tax plan moving forward in the U.S. Congress and championed by Donald “Drain the Swamp” Trump, is very swampy.
Today’s post will highlight a few examples.
First, let’s hear some of what billionaire fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach had to say. Via Bloomberg:
Back in 2015, at the height of Angela Merkel's "open door" admission policy which in addition to granting German entry to over 1 million refugees, many of whom turned out to be radical jihadists and sent her approval rating crashing to the lowest in her career, the German chancellor realized that the great migration wave from the middle east into Central Europe, originally meant to reinvigorate Europe's aging demographics (and prompted Deutsche Bank to even boost its German GDP forecast), maybe was not such a great idea, and was just not worth the risks and trade offs.
Via The Daily Bell
The same media that covered for the rich and powerful is now delighting in throwing them one by one under the sexual assault bus.
I can’t deny that it is a joy to watch liberal elites like Al Franken and Harvey Weinstein fall from grace.
But a chill goes down my spine when I think, but why now? Why has the media suddenly done a complete 180?
Public pensions all around the country like to play a clever little game that allows them to drastically understate the current value of their future liabilities and therefore pretend that their ponzi schemes are something other than insolvent frauds. Of course, we're talking about the artificially high discount rates that pension boards consistently use to understate their net underfunding levels...a topic that we've written about frequently over the years.
Authored by Jonah Bennett via The Daily Caller,
The Army has decided to abandon plans to issue waivers to recruits with a history of self-mutilation or other mental health problems.