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There will be very few assets worth owning when the "Energy Collapse" begins in earnest. Precious metals will be one of the few assets that will protect wealth as the U.S. and global oil industry disintegrates.
Every year, Americans spend a combined 600,000 years stuck in traffic, and Visual Capitalist's Jeff Desjardins notes, if you’re thinking that time could be spent a little more productively, you’re not the only one.
According to senior Pentagon officials, US troops will stay in Iraq even after the fight against ISIS has ended. The US Defense Secretary James Mattis said that keeping soldiers on the ground is in America’s [...]
By Jack Matlock, the 4-year U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987-1991, at the time that the USSR fell. Before that, Matlock served as the Director of Soviet Affairs in the State Department, the U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, and the Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for European and Soviet Affairs on the National Security Council Staff. Originally posted at JackMatlock.com. Posted with permission of the author.
Going back to the 'USA is Exceptional' meme- yes this is true! But it's not necessarily a good thing (just like, being positive isn't always good, for example it's not good to be HIV positive). USA has the highest per capita prison population - and is exceptional in a number of areas. USA is number one in terms of real GDP, and last in many other terms. One thing that the USA is last in - FX.