Stockman’s Corner

The Great European War posed no national security threat whatsoever to the US. And that presumes, of course, the danger was not the Entente powers—but Germany and its allies. From the very beginning, however, there was no chance at all that Germany and its bedraggled allies could threaten America—-and that had become overwhelmingly true by April 1917 when Wilson […]

As we noted in Part 1, without America’s 11th hour mobilization, the Great War would have ended in a stalemate of exhausted, bankrupted, demoralized  European combatants in 1917. There would have been no abomination known as the Versailles peace treaty because it was a toxic peace of victors. But without America’s tens of billions of aid and munitions and two million fresh American troops (doughboys)

This weekend the Donald took some heavy duty flack from liberals, Dems, the MSM and harrumphing patriots for cancelling his appearance at a wreath laying ceremony at the famous WWI battle site at Belleau, France owing to inclement weather. For instance, former Secretary of State, John Kerry got himself worked into high dudgeon: Mr Kerry criticised the president’s

As we indicated in Part 1, the Donald and his growing posse of GOP immigrant-bashers are dead-wrong about this kind of Alamo Politics. The 40-years of GOP dominance from William McKinley through Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, too, was built on the support of immigrants who voted for the full lunch pail economics of the old

Earlier this year the Donald provoked a bleep-hole moment per the Fox “family channel” or what was otherwise known as the the shit-hole moment across the rest of the MSM. But whatever you called the contretemps spurred by the president’s crude utterance with regard to certain countries domiciled on the African continent, the claim this was evidence that he’s an incorrigible racist was risible. Actually, we already knew

Earlier this year on tax filing day, Donald Trump took to some strident bragging —-assuring America’s  long-oppressed taxpayers that happier times beckon. In fact, he insinuated that MAGA is not just a slogan. By his lights, apparently, we are already living the dream. To wit: On this Tax Day, America is strong and roaring back. Paychecks are climbing. Tax rates are going

During an appearance on CNBC yesterday we suggested that the point has arrived where any rational investor needs only two word in his vocabulary: Trump and Sell! The reason is obvious: The Donald is playing with fire in the form of his Trade Wars, Fiscal Borrowing Spree and Fed Bashing at the top of an aging

What matters at present is that the crisis of September 2008 never went away. It merely represented the first down-leg of financialization coming undone, and is now re-emerging in even more virulent and dangerous form.

The history books will record that The Donald peaked on September 21, 2018. That’s when the S&P 500 made an all-time high at 2931 and when the Donald went all-in embracing the most dangerous and unstable Everything Bubble in modern times. And it was, ironically, also the 10th anniversary nearly to the date of the failed first TARP vote in the U. S.

The Donald never had a snowball’s chance in hell of Draining the Swamp—let alone making MAGA. Flyover America is thus fast on its way to being betrayed yet again. This should have been evident all along because from day one Trump lacked even a simulacrum of a program to rectify America’s failing economy—even as the Deep State has