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Very informative article. The US political parties are one gigantic corporation spreading its tenatacles in every sphere of human existence. It is the external debt and balance of payments problem which has been increasing ever since WW2 to finance and fund all of the wars begininning with the Korean war. I think the people on the inside want this to happen which is why we are in a very dangerous phase. Economically, militarily, socially and politically the US is no more the power it used to be. The absolute collaps may still be a few years from now. They are engineering this to wipe of their debt and start with a clean slate which entails a war imagining they can create a new world order.

The gig is up and the majoity of the world's population knows and understands this.

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Oct 28·edited Oct 28

It still won't happen soon, but now with borrowing reaching $2 trillion per year, it's impossible to pretend there is no problem. The US response (to buy more time) will be to print more money, and to encourage money in places under heavy US influence to flow back to the US by stirring up trouble in those places. E.g. eventual engineered shutdown of EU banking system. Probably quite a few years off, still.

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Excellent article. You rarely read anything on this topic so clearly written and frank.

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First Premise wrong; America is not a business. America is a political and economic Federation that occupies the bulk of the North American Continent.

We are no more a business than Russia is a gas station. Ahem.

It is entirely true we have a out of all control government and public sector that is looting America and harming all it touches. Rather like the USSR under Brezhnev and we’re already transitioning into the gangsterism that plagued Russia in the 1990s.

(You seem to forget?)

Communism- since you forgot- is a terrible mistake that harms all it touches. We are learning the hard way, just as Russia did.

We have about as much control of these criminal lunatics as the Zeks and Peasants did under communism, the Peasants just don’t want to be Zeks (prisoners).

Communism is just a manifestation of bureaucracy trying to be in charge, as noted in Jacobin France, the Communist nations and to a lesser extent the Fascist ones Managerialism or rule by Managers attempts to replace state, church, society, family, parents, fathers with bureaucracy.

As we were patient if firm with the USSR and merely held some lines, perhaps the rest should consider the same wise course?

As for America; America itself has a tremendous geographical position, a sound people under the insane and inane elites, and now that we’ve looked up from Our Own Business we’ll deal with them… it’s going to get worse.

But worse here means better for the rest of you, whom we have no interest in. WE, not these wretched creatures in DC.

After our Time Of Troubles, we will return to our natural Federation. Every American wide scale arrangement from the Iroquois to the Internet and all between are Federations, including the present one.

Iroquois Confederation

Articles of Confederation

Federalist Constitution

Southern Confederacy 1861-65

The Internet 🛜 administratively and technically is a Federation.

… Federation seems inescapable.

Certainly keeps happening.

The Federation allows us to mind our own business, and we’ll not mind yours. We will very likely keep much better control of our government in the future.

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Once the Corporations took over, it became a business.

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Lol. The Government took over, the Democratic Party took over everything and the Bureaucracy tried to replace reality with economic models.

Corporations pay protection money, and yes play rent seeking like everyone else. Corporations didn’t even get serious about lobbying government until the 1970s.

Yes the Corporations aren’t all AMTRAK or the DMV, or the Board of Education, or part of the Harvard Hedge funds, but they just pay protection money. That’s it, and they’re finding out like everyone else the Democratic Party fucks no one harder than their partners.

Democrats turned yes as much of America and the world into Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago, but didn’t ruin everything. Yet. Because people held them off, sometimes.

And get a job, if you’re a fellow American. Envy is an Un-American sin, try Greed?

Or Sloth, 🦥 and just collect a check and be content.

I’m Right Wing, so we’re going with wrath. See ya at the barricades.

“The Corporations” lol. 😂

The Democratic Party is the Biggest Corporation in Human History, and treats America as the East India Company treated India.

Get a real job, Democrat.

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Oct 27·edited Oct 27

The "Evolution of the ZIO/GLOBO/HOMO BORG":

first create the "nation";

then sell the "nation" piecemeal until it is virtually completely private enterprise;

"manage the populace" by gas lighting, perpetual lying, sabotage of the public domain, creating "unrealistic social demands based on Jewish victimhood" (QWERTY+* copy cat) and deliberately kill your own citizens telling them this is the salvation.

The outcome is the "Largest Organized Crime Syndicate", where the ZIONISTS call the shots. Israel could not exist if the Zionists were unable to call the shots.

*QWERTY+ is the accurate definition of LGTBQ.

It is a nonsense label to reflect the fraudulent nomenclature that the LGTBQ actually is

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Forgot to mention that you're walking into their trap. The so-called elite push the conflicts, strife & civil war as a means of control

Turn regular folks on each other so they don't end up hanging from lamposts.

The resulting violence will be great justification for lockdowns, incarceration, cbdc, rationing & whatever shit they want to shove down our throats.

Larry Fink/Blackrock is another one of them.

The companies that actually produce are just being dragged along for the ride & waking up too late.

But when they write the legislation that the govs sign without even reading, they are the perps.

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We’re not walking into their trap, they built the trap around us, which was very easy because “folks” wanted to stay out of trouble despite any depravity or depredation, degradation. Now the trap falls on us all, including the evil billionaires (again Envy is the most useless sin) who Ackshully just were concentrating on their business, and looked up at the government too late. The Billionaires have just realized they’re in this too.

They’re just very driven people who focused on their business really. Looked up very late.

Now “Folks” can fight or die, or just die, and some will fight and die. The winners are the new Elites, who will not be Oligarchs.

DC and mainly the State Department sprung a Color Revolution on the nation to Get Rid Of Trump. As is the Managerial way they start shit 💩 and stay hands off. They have no experience except blowing up and looting countries, so being only immediate move at a time sorts they forgot they live here and have no safe haven.

So they trapped everyone including themselves.

My fellow Americans were happy enough to vote short term interests or feelings until it was too late, so now we can all embrace the suck.

We have lived Nullum Pacem sine Bellum, Pudor (neither peace nor war just shame) for a long time, now we can Bellum Omnius Contra Omnes - war of all against all - 🙏 Amen.

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1. I'm not a Democrat.

2. I'll be more specific: by Corporations I mean Rothschilds/Rockefeller, & lessers such as Gates, Bezos, et al.

I live ~30 miles from a Rockefeller estate (also a Valerie Jarret waterfront estate, some Duponts, & more. Hell, my rescue pup used to play in the park with Zeus Eisenhower.

For the last couple years, every time something big is about to happen in Ukr or the mideast, I have private flying by at 3 am headed either sw or ne. That is, toward/from the direction of a certain private airport.

They own the pols, lock stock & barrel. Gop or dem, you're still voting for genocide of the indigenous Palestinian people.

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When you see the private security gone you’ll be Free.

Congratulations.

Do let us know.

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Marat has written extensively on the situation in Russia in the 90s...

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Good, then he should understand the situation. My references by the way went back centuries (Time of Troubles, USSR, 90s).

So as we were patient so can others.

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" as we were patient"... The US and Estern Europe has been directly involved in the destruction of Russia in the 1990-ies, my friend. As a matter of fact the West , the US and Britain in particular were aiming at demolishing USSR by any means possible since right after the World War II.

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And as a matter of fact the USSR was involved in trying to overthrow and demolish the West from 1917 ~ 1989, with a bit of a pause during WW2. As a matter of fact the people in America acutely and the West in general most committed to the destruction of Russia and the Slavs came from Russia, and - or were educated as Marxists in our universities. Russia is simply getting enormous lagging blowback, the Pale’s Chickens return to murder in the Slavic roost. Having said that, we the people don’t support this madness, we simply shrug our shoulders and are happy the lunatic gangsters are less interested in us for the present.

All that you may read of their bizarre interests in children for example are true, or worse…

We simply need to deal with this-

Speaking of present- the lunatic regime is collapsing as will become more evident abroad in the coming days or weeks. The election doesn’t determine the collapse of the DC regime.

This isn’t an election it’s dissolution of the Ruling Party- the Democratic Party. We 🇺🇸 have been one party government since FDR in fact and law, regardless of elections. That party is in dissolution, with it go all the International arrangements (and most National level institutions) that so trouble ye poor innocent Easterners.

😇 Angels all, we shall leave you in paradise, while we attend to the Housecleaning of Hell.

Amen 🙏

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You seem to think this is all by chance. The pandemic didn't just happen. It was made to happen, toxic jabs included.

The Biden deficit spending didn't just happen. It was made to happen on purpose.

"They" have been very open about their plans for a long time.

When resources run short, depopulation results. "They" are ensuring they are the survivors.

The Slav depopulation failed to produce desired result of Russia collapse.

Nordstream bought them time but not desired results. Industry is moving out of Germany, but not automatically to US shores. In some instances our great education system failed to produce the workforce needed for advanced production. And its so much more expensive here. And the decline is becoming obvious.

So they turned to Gaza & depopulating indigenous Palestinians for offshore gas & prime location to take over the entire west Asia.

I'm surprised they didn't turn their guns on Venezuela: huge oil reserves, closer to home, less ability to defend itself.

We the ordinary Americans are being lined up to be depopulated. Either by the jabs or by other means. Whatever it takes...

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Nobody said that this all happened by chance.

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Yes & no. On re-reading, you sid not say or even imply it.

But "things happened" is the go-to "how could we have known" pushed by the hasbara, propagandist media liars. I'm starting to see those ghost words floating in space, between lines, & in tea leaves! 😉

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Great insights, Mary.

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Oct 27Liked by Zinderneuf

Thank you. A great outline

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And there's republic of Macedonia 🇲🇰 CIA's George soros coup government of over 20yrs committing cultural genocide against 6mill Macedonians worldwide and in Macedonia wikileaks doc zaev dimitrov president prime Minister working to destroy Macedonia within soros plan forced Macedonia to join Nato terrorist org. Macedonia prior toUSA coup government surplus in the billions now in debt. Billions missing. Eg. Forced into a hyway 2 billion dollars 300 million should of been the cost but no Macedonian gov forced no tenders that's what Macedonians are forced to pay propping up Albanian terrorists to stir trouble in Macedonia

Only reliable full details crimes Mhrmi.org

Macedonian Human Rights Movement International

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Oct 27Liked by Zinderneuf

It's actually far worse than this article makes out. First, USA was already on the path to doom, because over the decades every dollar of new debt would produce less and less dollars of economic activity. Debt was having diminishing returns and would eventually reach a tipping point. Second, Biden didn't load up on debt out of the blue. USA and Russia are fighting a war, and USA is *also* running a wartime economy, which means it has to do unconventional things to keep finances going. Furthermore, it implemented Sanctions from Hell. These two reasons together are what caused the inflation wave of 2022. And finally, since September of 2022, the US central bank is printing money outright - without backing. In technical terms, the Fed is running a deficit and issuing IOUs in lieu of paying it's obligations to people. These IOUs are fungible and basically replace the dollars on Fed's creditor's balance sheets. The Fed is printing money without any backing, which is the first stage of hyperinflation.

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Fukuyama on the SMO, 'A Russian defeat would permit a "new birth of freedom" and assuage fears about the declining state of global democracy. The spirit of 1989 would live on thanks to Ukraine's bravery.'

Fuck you mama is a typical American intellectual, he's as thick as shit!

Great article again. The USA will go full default, no doubt about it. Ireland, where I'm from, will suffer a $350 billion loss, $85,000 per person. No problem to me as I have nothing that a bank or government owns, but for the majority, they'll want to find out where fuck you mama is hiding out and give him one hell of a beating.

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@Eoin Clancy

Here's a fun Irish story...

"Crash! (Or how I lost one hundred billion and gained true love)"

-Julian Gough

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00DULE6VU/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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A great little book alright on the last banking crisis, a crisis Irish taxpayers are still paying 2-4% of their wages on, on top of income tax and social security. How much extra tax will be needed to repay $350 billion to the state?

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Oct 27·edited Oct 27Liked by Zinderneuf

I disagree only on excellent economic schools as what is taught & applied is Neoliberalism which is responsible for hollowing out the collective West. A shock therapy version was applied to Russia in the 1990's by the Harvard boys which as you surely know caused mass hardship & a huge drop in life expectancy.

Since the 2008 GFC a slower form has been operating in the West resulting in US life expectancy dropping by 5 years. The free movement of peoples & capital are 2 rules. privatise everything another where everything is based on short term investments, while long term such as infrastructure are left to decline while outsourcing to cheap labour economies, has resulted in de-industrialisation which has for example reduced their ability to sustain a large enough capacity for arms production.

Economist Michael Hudson covers it all very well.

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And Richard Wolff also.

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Agree. Michael Hudson and others have choice words for the "excellent economic schools."

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Oct 27·edited Oct 27

Martin Armstrong keeps repeating the obvious. The republican form of representative government has a built-in detonator. It is so easy for the wealthy (((oligarchs))) to bribe or blackmail the representatives that it no longer works for the people. It has been usurped by those who start wars in Europe and the Middle East. We all know who they are. The 2% of the population who control the educational system, the medical system, media, internet, Hollywood and all politicians.

By 2032, the USA will break into 3 or 4 countries. Places like California and New York will go to hell. The survivors will have to create a system based on Direct Democracy to shake off the dead hand of Zionism.

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"By 2032, the USA will break into 3 or 4 countries". Why are you so specific? It would take a split in the American elites along geographical lines for such forces of division and regionalism to develop such kinetic force as to split the country apart. Just saying.

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A top essay, the U.S debt trap, for that is what they have created, one giant bear/debt trap, into which they happily stumbled, think the mindless Treasury Sec Yellen and her incessant lecturing China with her dim wit pontifical statements, laughable, a well practiced story teller if ever there was one, we are witnessing the structured demolition of the greatest Ponzi scheme in history, think of it this way, the entire U.S and their Western Allies economies built entirely upon debt, borrowing more every year in order to keep the entire charade, confidence trick moving along, the entire structure a smoke and mirrors confidence rort… the top 1% and Corporates commensurate the banks getting it all, the divvy, whilst the average Joe and Jayne gets rheemed, well and truly up the gunga..

This debt trap has been sprung, the demand by the 60+ % of bond/treasuries holders comprised of private equity, investment managers, the U.S citizen will rightfully demand higher rates for the risk of holding this junk, let alone for the main salients such lenders demand for loss of use/opportunity having given the government their hard earned not to mention the time factor or period they lend it to the government for … needing compensated accordingly for time without… the longer the higher the cost to government will now be the calculus, the inverse of what typically would apply… because sphincters will well and truly be sweaty and tightening by said lenders at giving up their hard earned to the spend thrift U.S Government for any length of time longer than 6months me believes… the time factor as we move forward will become the greatest risk to lenders, they will lack appetite for a lack of compensation for going without their hard earned instead handing it over to government fools to manage… who in their right mind knowing what we know would consider doing so, default is coming, these spend thrifts care not about the little guy, the mom, pop, grandma or pa losing their life’s savings, that’s business, ought to have been more cautious, done their due diligence.

When this bomb goes off and all of those USD flood back like the tsunami they represent, hitting U.S shores, look for inflation to scream upward at an uncontrolled rate…

If you wonder what the War in Ukraine is all about it, it is about the hegemon fighting to maintain it’s position at the top of the fiscal hit parade, the really great thing about this take down is that they have done it to themselves, just look closely at the impact of their fiscal policy, who has benefitted and gained, who has suffered and continues, there will be anarchy the middle classes already hollowed out, the U.S is not in a position of any kind to deal with a fiscal crisis such as Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Cuba, or that fiscally, any number of other nations have been forced into because of U.S fiscal/foreign policy, presently we are witnessing Europe and Japan’s economies being sacrificed in order the U.S survive, whilst the once so called poorer nations comprised of the global South, are on the precipice of wealth beyond their wildest dreams, BRiCS+ has and will result in this reconstituting of the financial order, rightly so, commodities, real tangibles now backing their currencies, wait for the new exchanges to become operational in the Global South, for gold and silver to no longer be primarily traded ex the West where the price is fixed, a scandal yet price for real the world’s only real money, as confirmed the Roman tables and Justinians law, enshrined in most nations fiscal statute has in London and Western exchanges been oversold on paper 15/1 in other words if paper gold contracts owned were stood for delivery ex these exchanges for every contract sold circa fourteen (14) could not be filled, despite the holders of said contracts waving their worthless paper contracts attesting to their owning gold under the noses of the dealers in the West…

When that genie lands, watch the gold price soar, back to where it ought be, from where it has been artificially set for decades, gold anathema to Western Central Bankers, we know the why, currency pegged to gold is restrictive, does not allow or provide for unlimited money printing, add to this mix the Saudis in Western Asia deciding in June they would not renew the exclusive to the U.S fifty year Petrodollar deal, preferring, having read the tea leaves and knowing what lies ahead for the Hegemon, to ensure their oil income can be sold in any currency, a la BRICS+ policy, poor MBS, walking a fine line, even opining not long ago, he feared assassination, little wonder with so much money at stake, the U.S able to print incessantly due the fact at one point nearly 90% of global trade trillions per day, was undertaken in USD, great gig if you can it, but since that ratio has dropped to a paltry 58% and continues to decline this is the other tightrope the U.S walks.

Add to this nightmare the USD$770 Quadrillion yep, with a Q… we’ve long passed the Trills, of derivatives to be unwound and the economic picture for the U.S becomes even bleaker.

Meanwhile China with her USD$1.2Trillion trade surplus per annum keeps on rockin, building infrastructure around the globe, doing what any sane investor would do, putting their surplus to work, growing their influence and wealth.

Simply put the worst is yet to come and the best of it is that China, Russia, the global south and non aligned to the West nations can and will trade amongst themselves at record levels, they don’t need the West, they need nothing the West offers or has, their products expensive, over rated, much of what is manufactured outside of the West in the East and South, as good if not better, in short five hundred turgid years of colonial bastard rule is nearing its zenith… its end, rightly so, I feel for the average Joe and Jayne but have no sympathy, none, nada, zilch, zero a big fat fricken donut with a monstrous hole, zip, sympathy for the elites in the West…

They counted upon Russia losing, divvying up after Balkanising Russia and her 70Trillions in resources, resetting their fiscal balances as they all and everyone spent what they didn’t have, who will forget the Munich Security Conference preceding the SMO, every leader there high, almost intoxicated on the wealth and riches they all foolishly believed was going to fall into their lap, akin shareholders spending IPO proceeds before the bell has rung confirming their new wealth these elites did the same, believing the U.S assurances of …don’t worry bro, we got this, you’ll get yours.. enjoy it.. and off they went printing presses launched into over drive billions here, more billions there, all money they didn’t have, well as we know, e@ch and every one of us, the bill always gets, must be paid… there is a day of reckoning… and boy oh boy have they been caught pants around their ankles, privates exposed… they sure as shitzen carry on as if they have been so maniacal and non sensical their doubling and trebling down on the cross dressing Nazi pervert in that Nazi shit hole Ukraine… hoping now against hope a miracle, will save them… alas, the only miracle on that battlefield is the Russian miracle, that once again as back in the 1940’s when last called upon by humanity to do so, saving the world from fascism, for fascists is what these loser elites have all become… watch this space, this is only just starting to warm up.

Kia Kaha from New Zealand

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US vassals in the five eyes are going to have an interesting time renegotiating their position in the wider world; the current political, economic, and financial structures are totally unsuitable in a post empire world.

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Don’t worry, said vassals, my own country included are and will be part of the fiscal decline, more so in fact, given the nonsensical yet forced upon us, decision to peg to the USD… so much for being a responsible ally… well rewarded😂😂😂, no FTA, despite the Wars fought alongside, yep, our governments so keen to kow tow for the miserly crumbs falling from the U.S table, ultimately the end result, we will go down with the mother ship, named alongside the U.S, U.K, E.U Aust, South Korea, Japan and a number of other nations as enemies of Russia on the recently released list, generations will pass before we are even considered for BRICS+ .. rightly so, in their shoes I’d do exactly the same, talk about an own goal… blindly following the pied piper …. now headed over a cliff… if it wasn’t so ridiculous you’d have to laugh… sadly it’s the reality… still the “West” will be able to trade amongst themselves …. getting paid though will be the real challenge 😂😂😂

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First of all, you have to start not with Trump but with Bush Jr with his illusions of the "owning house dream," which ended up with the banks selling mortgages to people unable to pay them, then selling to other institutions "mortgage packages" upping the mortgage payments, and people went bankrupt. Obama didn't fix the problem, he told the bankers, " between you and the mob with pitchforks, is only me" and he bailed the violators, nobody got in prison for the massive fraud. Obama kicked this can for 8 years, and Trump inherited the mess and did what he could but couldn't do anything cardinal because the blob made sure the blob people were in all the right places. What Biden did, we all have seen.

But you forget that the US been through the economic turmoils before and if now Trump & team would do things right and cut cut cut the blob, return jobs home from overseas, place tariffs, I think the US can recover.

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"I think the US can recover". As a citizen of America I dearly wish so if only for sake of my children and grandchildren. But America would need major shock therapy that it loves to impose on other countries, such as major cuts in military and social spending as well as to default on its debt obligations so as to remove the massive overhang of interest and principal repayments which is inexorably choking the economy. This would have to be followed by a draconian fiscal and monetary policies to make the economy self-sustaining and return it to growth. Who among the American elites, whether they be Democrats or Republicans, much less Trump, are willing to face this reality? In the meantime the SS Hegemony is heading for the rocks.

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As a citizen of America, even if I'm dismayed by what's going on, I still believe that if this "wedge economy" is dismantled, FED, and over-regulations banned, the country has a chance. By wedge economy, I mean tons of parasitic structures inserted everywhere and wanting their cut. Like, you can't just buy your private health insurance directly from the insurance, you must go through the "healthpathfinder," who want their cut. Never mind, you can't deal directly with the hospital you like to buy your health insurance from them, you got tons of parasites wedging in, wanting their cut, and the first insurance question asks you "how much do you make" - what it has to do with the price of eggs? Health is health, it's not "how much it will cost to you." And the same goes for pretty much everything. The huge corporations remind me the USSR's centralized economy, choking small businesses, but if they'd be properly regulated against the monopoly, it would help. Obama abolished in 2011 the fairness doctrine by which the press was obligated to provide both sides of any controversial issue. And now, we don't have free press. And I'm with Vivek Ramaswamy on cut cut cut - at least 80+% of the government - 3 million of government "workers," can break the spine of any economy.

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There is no such a thing as Domestic Policy . Everything is Foreign Policy. Trump does not have a good grip on the US Foreign Policy at all. During his presidency Trump sanctioned the heck out of Russia, he also dumped INF treaty with Russia , among other rediculous mistakes he made ,including in Europe, Middle East and of course with China . Americans who expect Trump to be their messiah and expect Trump to make things to " go back to normal " like it was before , -- these Americand are not paying attention to what is obvious to the majority of the countries of the world . The whole world sees and talks about America circling the drain, but it's a total silence on this subject from Trump, from Biden, from Harris. All they do is call each other names. Nobody asks any of these candidates questions about the US being increasingly isolated ,about the plans how to resolve the problem . And the population doesn't even want to think about it , but it's essential to understand the issues and their roots ,-- even if the process can not be fixed it's better to understand than not to understand while living through it & trying to survive. Trump is irrelevant just like who ever else will become the next president of our country and our nihilistic society.

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Yes, I read the above opinions like yours in Russian MSM. I don't expect Trump to be our "messiah." I'm not crazy about Trump, I voted against Trump last time, but now I voted for him, since realistically speaking, and given our current situation, Trump is the 'best option.' Trump's instincts are usually correct. In his last term he had to bend backwards to prove he was not in Russia's pocket. This opinion of him still prevails here, you would be surprised how many educated people I know here who talk about "Trump is in Putin's pocket" or "Trump is Putin's stooge." And when you ask to elaborate, it turns out they know absolutely nada about the region, geopolitics and still have very strong opinions about things they know nothing. But that's what the local propaganda achieved here. Trump now will have free hands to dismantle the "blob" - if he cuts 75% of government, it would be already an achievement in itself.

Trump speaks clearly about the problems we have here, you probably don't follow his campaign close. Trump will put America's interests first, but I think he will wrap up the wars, which already would be better than whatever is current admin doing or Kamala (whoever behind her). Let's hope Trump learned from his previous mistakes, and will do better this term.

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The wedge you speak of are simply the parasites that our "financialized" economy encourages and promotes as great examples of modern American entrepreneurship. Most of these wedges are subsidiaries of hedge funds, insurance companies, etc. Dig deeper and very often they are products of legislation that the lobbies representing these very financial institutions successfully inserted into bills passed by Congress. The whole thing has become a racket that is destroying the American economy.

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Oct 27·edited Oct 27

Well, the US financial system and its economy simply cannot recover. It is like this per design. By the way any fiat money system went broke. From a control theory standpoint these systems are systems with positve feedback. The amount of money determines the gain in money (growth) and vice versa; the gain in money determines the amount of money. All having positve sign.

Imagine putting a microphone in front of a speaker which is connected to the same amplifier the microphone is connected to. The slightest amount of noise will be amplified ad infinitum. In this example the amplitude of the squeak will be finite, or stationary for that matter, because of complex losses and the amplification being finite.

For fiat money systems these sort of brakes aren't impplemented. Growth continues exponentially until is crashes.

The biggest difference for the fiat money system that was established by the federal reserve act in comparison to other fiat money systems is, that the US was able to export a lot of its inflation to the whole world. Ancient imperias were only able to export their debt more or less locally. The US was able to do so because of their advanced weaponry. So the proliferation of the US dollar and the development of weaponry are two sides of one coin. The problem that arises for US banks (and western banks in general) is, that there is no advance in western weapon systems to the rest of the world left. For the first time in recent history the western world lost the arms race to Russia and China. Consequently the socalled west isn't able anymore to apply well organized force to countries that aren't willing to swallow the western inflation. As a consequence the US dollar flows back to where it was printed, and the consequences are already visible inside the US.

The ultimate consequence will be the crash of the federal reserve dollar.

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Oct 27Liked by Zinderneuf

"...you forget that the US been through the economic turmoils before and if now Trump & team would do things right and cut cut cut the blob, return jobs home from overseas, place tariffs, I think the US can recover."

No way, too late. Happily for the rest of the world (95% of the world's population) the decline is terminal and unstoppable.

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Agreed with you up to the last paragraph. I just can't see any type of recovery without a catastrophic collapse preceding it. Whether that collapse stems from the west going full retard and starting another war, this time against Russia, in a last ditch effort to stave off disaster, or whether it is pitchforks in Washington, I don't know. Either is possible, and both are disastrous, but I think one or the other has to happen before the US recovers.

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The US will have to sell lies. Flies pick over our carcass. We have shot ourselves to death, what a great country we are. We ran outta wars

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