Alternative Visions – US Economic Slowdown Ahead 2018 As US Debt Hits $70 Trillion and Trump Targets China Trade – 03.16.18

Dr. Rasmus identifies weakening retail sales and business inventories as sources of US GDP sharply slowing later this year. Trump’s tariffs as only opening skirmish in US trade war—with China not the rest of the world. Half of US $810 billion trade deficit in goods is with China. Watch next week Trump actions targeting China trade. Why China will not …

DAVID ROSEN – What Happens When the Trump Bubble Bursts?

On January 20, 2017, president-elect Donald Trump will be inaugurated the nation’s 45th President.  Almost a year to the date, on January 24, 2016, Republican candidate Trump boasted at a Sioux Center, IA, campaign rally, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.”  Sadly, he was probably right then — and …

Michael Arria – If Obama Had Prosecuted Goldman Sachs’ Brain Trust, We Wouldn’t Be Plagued by Them Again in Trump’s Cabinet

In September of this year Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to Michael E. Horowitz, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice, requesting an investigation into why the Obama administration failed to prosecute any Wall Street executives after the financial crash. Warren’s letter pointed to findings by Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), which had provided the Justice Department with 25 …