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It's 100% Bullshit. There were no calls from China to President Trump on Monday, according to China. The President said he got two calls from China. There were no calls. When the President says that several people have come to him to say "blah blah blah", but he doesn't identify who those...

The EC being helpful to retention of a two party dominance may be a function of "winner take all"? Not sure. Certainly winner take all is undemocratic. But total democracy in a country where corporations are in charge of the public's education and want to run the schools like businesses is a...

Your question is a good one; one that millions of U.S. citizens could reasonably ask. It is at the heart of a great misunderstanding among the public, who with very rare exception do not recognize that their personal financial constraints are very very different from the Federal Government's...

Is the argument that with the EC one can't get to the required number of EC votes by only winning 15 state's EC votes, whereas by popular vote it is theoretically possible to win a plurality of votes by only counting the votes in 15 States? But, if that is the argument, isn't it a bit contrived...

Trump is emphatically not correct. See for example Wiki's fine article, and many many others available on the net, on "Balance of Trade." A few excerpts: from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: In the foregoing part of this chapter I have endeavoured to show, even upon the principles of the...

I repeat what I and a couple hundred psychiatrists have been saying since trump was elected, "He's a sociopathic narcissist.*" No one should be surprised at the chaos he is creating. He is dangerous! As things fall apart he will get worse. You will witness in real time his mental state...

Trump is putting the U.S. Dollar's Reserve status in much greater danger than it was. If the Dollar becomes just one among several alternative currencies with reserve status, the consequences for U.S. dollar stability , if you are a U.S. citizen, are not nice to contemplate.

? Not without U.S. allies he doesn't.. . And even then it's unlikely a screwball policy Trump pulls out of his ass can have any result other than a negative one on the U.S. economy. You may have noticed the message from the markets is along the same lines. The best thing for the U.S. now is...

Although Washington, the inveterate social climber, represented the moneyed class. About that there can be no question; he died the wealthiest man in America.

Leaving aside the reality that AOC is, of course, correct, the question seems to have become: do we want to deteriorate into a democracy, such as India, where democracy has run amuck and stifled innovation and change, or remain the fascist nation the U.S. has evolved into and has become rather...

we've known this about tariffs for years. Of course they are even worse when dreamed up by the seat of Trump's pajamas and announced via tweet. Sad to say, the U.S. no longer has an intact State Department. Trump's bullshit is creating chaos and lose-lose situations. And now the U.S. risks...

That's one in a row!

Icelander Says Donald Trump’s Son Trashed his Apartment By Iceland Review Posted July 27, 2016 In News In August 2014 Eric Trump, Donald Trump’s son, came to Iceland over a weekend and rented an apartment from Ragnar Þór Jónsson, an Icelandic entrepreneur. In an interview with Fréttatíminn...

There are real victims associated with naked selling. That's why it should be , and is, illegal.

you are talking about "productivity", whether you realize it or not. The money in circulation and readily expendable can be expanded or contracted in relation to productivity. When it is expanded or contracted far out of step with productivity there will eventually be undesirable consequences...

ZH is, on balance, worse than worthless; they are pernicious Where they are accurate, there are more reliable sources; where they are wrong, which is often, they are dangerous.

thank you for posting this, by the way, as it helps to explain your nuttiness. Some of these screwball tenets are such that they can be interpreted in very pernicious ways. Is that by design? By the way, your economic naivete is showing when you say you are an advocate of budget surpluses...

if only any of this was true the U.S. would be a true democracy, and Trump would have garnered the most votes. Ben Franklin said, "sooner or later every Republic becomes a tyranny."

you're slow today. It took you two hours to respond!

In my opinion, Trump is correct about public perception becoming reaiity. The artcle above points out the importance of the perceived credibility of the source of information that forms our perceptions. This phenomenon, where perception both affects and effects reality, is what Soros terms...