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The Economy According to Wizards, Chieftains, Poohbahs, and Mavens

by Craig Cantoni | Dec 27, 2016 | Blog

Economics wizards, corporate chieftains, Wall Street poohbahs, and media mavens say it’s good for the economy if Americans bought a lot of stuff at Christmas and will continue buying a lot of stuff throughout the New Year, even if they buy the stuff on credit. Good...

Dallas Pension Crisis and False Choices

by Eric Schuler | Dec 12, 2016 | Economics, Featured Articles

Dallas's pension problems finally came to a head this past week. After weeks of increasingly dire headlines and the pension equivalent of a run on the bank, the Board of Trustees for the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System finally decided to suspend lump-sum...

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The Bloody Weekend: Netanyahu’s Blame Game, Americans Killed, and the Fuentes Backlash

The weekend should have been quiet. Instead, a Hanukkah celebration on a Sydney beach turned into a massacre, a Muslim bystander tackled a shooter, and within hours the tragedy was weaponized. We dig into what happened, why the early “false flag” whispers took hold,...

Christmas Hiatus

The Chasing Ghosts and WarNotes podcasts are on Christmas vacation, next episode will be published on Monday, 5 January 2026. See you next year. Stay strapped for Christmas...

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Truth in Advertising in the UK At Last

I love it that the National Health Service (NHS) socialist medical horror show in the UK uses the handle NHSuk on the X. The United Kingdom prides itself on this crown jewel of medical malpractice & incompetence that is a love child of Benny Hill, Trofim Lysenko...

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Fat Amy is the Exemplar of the American Military Paper Tiger

The foreign purchase entanglement and moral hazard of overspending of the F35 is emblematic of making a two trillion dollar purchase over time where the money is simply wasted but driven to completion by the sheer momentum of the insane and imbecilic US military...

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Empire of Lies: Fragments from the Memory Hole

by Charles Goyette

Had Enough of the Deep State’s Warlords and War Lies? George W. Bush spent a year and a half gaslighting the American people, using the shock of 9/11 as the pretext for an unrelated war he sought long before that tragic event. Isolated incident? Not at all. Now a...