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While the debate rages over the future threat of CBDCs, a far more insidious reality has already taken hold: our existing financial system already functions as a digital control grid, monitoring transactions, restricting choices, and enforcing compliance through programmable money.
The Stablecoin Trap: The Backdoor to Total Financial Control Read Journal Article
We have lost our footing in knowing something that scientists long believed we could know: whether and to what extent an economy is growing and prospering or going the opposite way.
From what we see, Team Trump seems to have blinked on its domestic regeneration agenda. The logic of the swamp has prevailed. Continued heroin addiction it is. At least we are getting rid of the censorious authoritarian globalists.
The so-called “clean CR [continuing resolution]” that Speaker Johnson is apparently cooking up will ratify the entirety of the runaway spending in the last Biden budget, thereby cancelling virtually every single dime that the DOGE operation has purportedly saved.
Many countries now face an aging population and declining childbirths. Too many infants still die unnecessarily before the age of five years. While Public Health experts communicate to focus on healthier future generations, declining health in young females is ignored.
It has been assumed that leaders and policymakers, especially the United Nations, know these basic historical and current facts. Farmers are becoming endangered because of government policy to meet ‘climate goals’ and it’s being allowed to happen.
The increasing number of suicides and fatal overdoses of women healthcare workers has accompanied rising sickness and women leaving the sector. A shortfall of 10 million healthcare workforce (of whom 80-90% is female) is projected by the WHO for 2030.
The Alarming Increase in Female Healthcare Worker Suicide Read Journal Article
Under our three savings bucket scheme, “Slashing the Fat” from the Federal payroll and bureaucracy would account for just $400 billion or 20% of DOGE’s $2 trillion per year savings target.
Slash The Fat: 16 Agencies To Terminate Read Journal Article
The Donald’s Day One thunder was superb but his blunder in ignoring the big issues—taming the Warfare State, reining in Federal spending and debt, and throttling the madcap money printers at the Fed—needs to be corrected soon.
Lists of outrageous anecdotal items provide color about the waste that is rampant in the Federal government. But they have nothing to do with the fact-based analysis and philosophical U-turns that will be required to complete the DOGE mission successfully.
America’s Fiscal Doomsday Machine Must Be Stopped Read Journal Article
Some of our fellows, writers, and scholars have made some recommendations for insightful books that can help frame up some of the complexities of our time. They don’t explain everything but they can surely help us toward greater understanding.
The current raging California fires are largely a function of misguided government policies. Officials have essentially curtailed the supply of water available to firefighters, even as they have increased the supply of combustible kindling and vegetation which feeds these wildfires.
Wildfires and the Hoary Hoax of a Burning Planet Read Journal Article
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