So more big Fed cash floods into the market? Back during QE2 you had partisan hack Krugman rationalizing it all (though QE had little to do with his Keynesian philosophy). Guys like Bob Murphy were saying, "Yep, this is it, get ready for the inflation." And then it...
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We Have to Back the Azov Battalion in Ukraine or We’ll Be Fighting Russians Here!
That's what the kooks from the State Department told the impeachment hearings last week. Then, two days ago: Cease-Fire Agreed To By Russia And Ukraine Presidents. Today: Russia's Only Aircraft Carrier on Fire in Port. Mmmm. Yes, tell me more about this "threat" from...
Proxy or Not? US Can’t Make Up Its Mind on Yemen’s Houthis
In announcing its latest round of sanctions on Iran, Washington once again declared Yemen’s Houthi movement a “proxy” of the Islamic Republic, but recent statements from US officials – including Trump’s top Iran envoy – finally put the lie to that worn out talking...
RIP Jon Comer
What a shame. Jon Comer has died. He was a very nice guy and a fucking ripper. I'm happy to have had a chance to skate with him many times back in the old days at Jeff Phillip's Skatepark in Dallas. He had the very nicest frontside grinds. Yeah, Jon.
Half of My Heart Is in La Habana: Life After Flight from Castro’s Cuba
When Mercedes (“Mercy”) Rodriguez arrived in America on a fall day in 1979, the first thing she noticed was how clean and wide the streets were. The 15-year-old Cuban refugee had just arrived on a plane carrying nearly a dozen political prisoners, including her father...
Blowback Terrorism
The Pensacola, Florida shooter, a Saudi Air Force officer -- if SITE can be believed, which they probably can -- says he was mad about American foreign policy: "I'm not against you for just being American, I don't hate you because your freedoms, I hate you because...
Admiral McJackass
What a tool. Admiral McRaven's NY Times oped - in which we hear that an anonymous Army general has said: " 'I don’t like the Democrats, but Trump is destroying the Republic!' " McRaven explains which "republic" Trump is destroying: "Those words echoed with me...
What Trump Should Be Impeached For
From CNN This footage showing the unloading of a variety of US-made arms -- which was filmed illicitly at the offloading site, then obtained and verified by CNN -- is itself contentious. Multiple witnesses told CNN that Yemeni authorities, backed by the Saudi-led...
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