U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin slandered cryptocurrencies at a press conference earlier this month. Mnuchin attempted to smear the industry with associations to money laundering and funding terrorism. He said he has "serious concerns" that bitcoin could be misused "by money launderers and terrorist financiers." As if to underscore the part of the picture Mnuchin is leaving out, the very...
Out of the ashes of the financial crisis has come the longest economic expansion in history. Now at 121 months, the US economy's expansion began in June of 2009 as growth returned following the mortgage fiasco. The Economic Phoenix Rises It isn’t surprising that the longest economic expansion should occur after the second-worst recession of all time. What is surprising is that this record...
By CCN: There’s only one thing better than a sensational mainstream media headline designed to lure in weak-minded Trump haters. That’s when the story is easily debunked as fake news with just a few minutes of research. The ludicrous headline in question is splayed all over every mainstream media outlet, and is some version of that which appeared in the Washington Post: “Trump would have been...
By CCN.com: Barack and Michelle Obama just announced the lineup of projects they’ll be releasing on Netflix - with a documentary taking aim at Donald Trump’s presidency listed among them. The documentary will be an adaptation of Michael Lewis’ book, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy - an examination of Trump’s failure to effectively staff three major government departments when he was elected...
By CCN: Joe Biden has just announced his presidential bid for 2020 and he’s already off to a controversial start. Biden served as VP for eight years under President Barack Obama. Surprisingly, Biden has requested that the former commander-in-chief not endorse his presidential race, stating that “whoever wins this nomination should win it on their own merits.” Thank you to the women of @TheView...
By CCN: Former CIA analyst John Gentry published a scathing attack on the alleged anti-Trump deep state, claiming American intelligence institutions have been overrun by Democrats - many of whom were handpicked by Barack Obama. Gentry suggests that traditional safeguards to stop political weaponization of the intelligence community were bypassed by Obama during his first term. It’s illegal to ask...
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is being barraged with an avalanche of groping allegations from multiple women. But the curious silence from his longtime pal, ex-President Barack Obama, is deafening.
Is this a sign that their alliance of convenience and faux bromance is finally over?
As prime minister of between 2014 and 2016, Matteo Renzi was an unmitigated disaster for Italy. Fortunately, his incompetence and socialist ideology ensured that Italians not only showed him the door but also left his Partito Democratico (Democratic Party) politically annihilated. Now, the has-been is nostalgic of a bygone age when elites and globalists were in charge rather than populists like...