In 2015, even before President Trump came down the golden escalator, CTH was outlining a ‘new era and dimension’ in American economics that could be possible if a presidential candidate focused on specific Main Street policy. {Go Deep}
Throughout the next four years we watched carefully how Donald Trump was organizing that Main Street revival {Go Deep} and what specifically was creating the economic growth {Go Deep}.
One of the points emphasized in 2016 about Trump’s unique MAGAnomic policy, was how both Trump and Bernie Sanders agreed on the problem. The difference between them was the solution.
Think of it like economic football.
Both Trump and Sanders identify the rigged game. Bernie Sanders wanted to change the referees so that government controls the game. Donald Trump’s approach was different. Trump wanted to change the rules of the game, not step in and try to play referee to a rigged game where the rules were flawed.
One of the examples of economic “rule changing” is trade tariffs. You don’t need govt to regulate the corporations directly (ie. raise corporate income taxes). Instead, you can change trade policy to make the better corporate decision a return of production back to the USA (a fundamental rules change).
Both approaches involve a different govt policy, but Trump’s approach changes behavior. That’s MAGAnomics.
One of the reasons Trump’s approaches are much more effective, is that his rule changes extend beyond the American corporate game. Trump’s approach changes the behavior of foreign governments and foreign corporations, a win/win/win.
An example is the Japanese government investing in America to offset reciprocity tariffs; while Toyota, a corporation, invests in specific auto manufacturing expansion to avoid baseline tariffs.
You don’t get that kind of result through Bernie’s approach changing the American referee in an all-American game and raising corporate income taxes. And don’t forget, the corporation can just move offshore and avoid income taxes entirely. Apple used to have their company incorporated in Ireland. Trump’s rule changes brought them back.
The Promethean Action PAC is now highlighting the fundamentals of Trump’s MAGAnomics and how the policy is distinctly different from all U.S. economic policy before it.
The Fed slams on the breaks to stop growth because The Fed doesn’t work for the U.S. The Fed answers to globohomo.
You paint the Fed as the bad guy when the bad guy is the Democrats in Government telling the Fed what to do. The Fed was politicized by the Democrats. Powell lowered rates for Biden/Harris while inflation was hot. Powell refused to lower rates for Trump. The guy behind the curtain telling Wizard Powell what to do was a Democrat.
The Globullists are telling the Fed what to do. The dems are crafty and sneaky, but not that smart. The rinos want money, they don’t care who is telling who, as long as their bank accounts get bigger.
END THE FED!!!!!
Read, The Creature From Jekyll Island.
End the fed before …07/04…
Less than one month to change the currency.
They greatest of journeys always begins with the first step………….
Being done
Mostly O gauge, 100%. The book you mention is a must read for Treepers
The Fed needs to be dissolved, they are Not helpful.
The Creature From Jekyll Island is by G. Edward Griffin. Read his bio at the end of this book description on Amazon.
He lives: https://x.com/GEdward_Griffin
Absolute truth. 💯
“The Creature From Jekyll Island” should be mandatory reading for every person in this country.
All the mischief of the last 113+ years lead directly to the formation of the Fed. Get rid of the Fed or embrace globalism, WWIII, pestilence, privation, perversion, 3rd world invasion, et al.
Bingo
Change “politicized” to “owned” and I might agree.
There is only the Uniparty.
The Fed IS the bad guy. The Fed/central bank is the very reason we don’t have sound, honest money that enables obscene amounts of money to be printed for the political-class to the level of fraud and theft that it has, and will continue to. When Nixon untethered the dollar from gold it allowed virtually unrestricted legal counterfeiting. It took just 1 generation for the political-class to realize how they could profit from such an arrangement, and here we are.
Take away a central bank and the playing field becomes level for all and they can’t add any more zeros to a digital ledger.
Ron Paul has been proven right.
We do not have sound money because the Government/Congress spends trillions over what it received through taxes. That is where inflation starts…the government spending. The Creature from Jekyll Island is a book to get the suckers to look at the evil Fed instead of the evil spenders.
Listen to what you’re saying. How could Congress spend what they don’t have access to? You’re conflating cause for effect.
Mish Congress authorizes spending. Congress passes bills that detail the spending for the year and adds to it as necessary. The Fed tells the Treasury how much money to print. The Treasury prints it.
It is a 3 step process and you are picking the guy in the middle. You are just plain wrong.
Either Congress needs to pass legislation that spends less money .
Have you ever heard of Treasury complaining about how much they have to print? No.
The root cause of the problem is Congress spending more than it takes in. THINK.
Nixon and the others recognized that he needed a different source of capital to sustain spending since gold was flying out the door.
No, sir. Inflation is a result of the Fed printing more money, thereby reducing the buying power of each dollar.
THAT is inflation!
Congress only spends because it knows the Fed will simply produce more toilet paper called US currency.
It is more accurate to say monetary inflation is a result of the Fed printing more money, then making it available for spending by those closest to the money spigot. Their spending then reduces the buying power of those farthest from the money spigot due to due to price inflation.
The Fed could print all it wants (monetary inflation) but if it just sat in a corner unspent there would be no price inflation. The evil begins once the money is released into the money supply.
One has to be careful to understand the terms economists and others toss around. They are often used interchangeably to confuse those who don’t understand. Paul Krugman does it intentionally. Others are just ignorant and use them casually but they still confuse people.
What you posted is misleading but I doubt you did it intentionally.
That proximity to the money spigot and the perverse incentives therin would have been recognized by Bastiat and was described by Richard Cantillion in the Cantillion effect. Richard Cantillion was also another contemporary of the perhaps better known Adam Smith.
You’re right, both of them, and many more, recognized the perverse incentives to such an arrangement.
It can, and should be stopped immediately. No decent, moral person should tolerate a central bank, contra all the states kept intellectuals, economists and apologists.
Glad to hear you’re familiar with some of their writings!
Price inflation comes from the bidding-up of goods and services by those closest to the money spigot as they spend it. By the time access to the money gets to us, the common people, prices have been driven-up by their ability to consume before us, leaving us with higher prices and dollars worth less requiring more of said dollars to buy the same amount of goods and services.
End the immoral Fed and central banking!
No matter the policy, one iron clad rule remains:
“You cannot transfer money from the haves to the have nots as quickly as the have nots can multiply.”
Whether that multiplication come from immigration or high birthrates in America, the effect is the same – more parasites.
Defund the Federal redistribution system entirely: repeal the Federal Income tax. Shift taxation to the States.
That depends, of course, on who multiplies. The failure of productive citizens to reproduce is also a death knell for a society. A number of things need to coincide for a people to thrive, but we cannot and will not thrive without generational continuity. Economics is important, but let me also refer you to Edmund Burke.
The underlying problem is that both the Fed and Congress think our coerced Federal Income tax payments are an endlessly replenished magic Pot o’ Gold: so they waste $$$ as they please.
Congress spends because that is how they buy campaign contributions and votes. They don’t get rewarded for spending less.
It’s easily possible to see both as they are. Both are evil and corrupt.
Exactly! Repeal the Federal Income tax, shift income taxation to the States. Stop the redistribution system where the Feds skim off 25% then “grant” funds to the States, with pathetically inadequate oversight. The States can fund and run their own programs.
That might be OK for red states but commie blue states like California and Washington would rapidly turn into bigger anti-American cesspools.
The same people who own the Fed are the same people who own the Congress.
Keynesian Economics in a nutshell, “we owe it to ourselves”. The concept was to control booms & busts remember when we were treated to Quantitative Easing I-II-III and we heard “to big to fail”.
Without a moments reflection on how we got there, the Community Reinvestment Act 1977 (got a pulse, buy a house), repeal of Glass-Steagall 1999 (30 to 1 derivatives), Government via Continuing Resolution no budget/ massive fraud, then the “Great Recession” 2008 with the ascension of our Barry trillions of fraud became policy.
To end this lunacy, end the Fed, remove the play toy stopping the squandering of $$$trillions$$$ of dollars by the Uniparty.
Or, “do the same thing over and over again and expect s different result” Insanity!
Repeal the Federal Income tax and take the Pot o’ Gold away from Congress. Shift income taxation to the States. Warch the Federal government shrink in real time, back to its Constitutionally-mandated scope, size and cost. Federal redistribution of our coerced tax payments will stop, and the States can fund the programs they care about: with proper oversight! Work out a plan for the States to assume and retire the Federal debt. The shrunken Federal government can fund itself with excise taxes, customs duties, tariffs, and levies on the States. States can say “NO!” to the Feds far more effectively than We The Unrepresented Taxpayers can.
Repudiate the “national” debt to those who incurred it. I wouldn’t worry about even trying to repay it. The people are not morally obligated to pay a debt they weren’t a party to contract to. It also would be impossible to pay it back without keeping probably the next 5-6 generations, if not more, of American wage-earners in bankruptcy and poverty.
OK, but how does that affect the credit of the US, and value of the dollar?
Terry is also correct. The liabilitie is definitely orthogonal.
Correct but it’s too late now to stop printing money. If they did it will cause a depression that will make the 1930’s look tame.
I agree with Sunshine……it’s the fact that the globalist are able to use the Dems policies to their ends.
It’s not just Dem’s benefitting from the incestuous relationship.
“The net worth of members of Congress grows significantly over time, with lawmakers accumulating wealth at a rate substantially faster than the average American household.” per Google AI emphasis added
“Transparency Limitations
Tracking exact growth is complicated by financial disclosure requirements. Members of Congress are only required to disclose their assets and liabilities within broad value ranges (which currently top out at categories of $50 million or more), and they are not required to publicly disclose the value of their primary residences.”
The point, members of Congress, both houses, and both parties do very well financially. My guess is that if you include the incomes/assest of children, parents, and other close family members the wealth grows very nicely as well.
Are you still stuck in that Democrat bad vs Republican good paradigm?
Actually the problem is LEFTWING ideology- desire for strong central government ruling by fiat with very limited power among citizens.
Both Democrats and Republicans are and have been guilty of promoting far too much power across the unelected Deep State.
Both parties have worked to protect “the institution” of government when so many of them personally profit from it.
The Republican Party has a large component who are dedicated to constitutional small government and individual rights and liberties, but unfortunately our GOP political organizations seem to promote more politicians who talk “right” but wind up governing “ left of center.”
Powell could have justifiably raised rates earlier, but he waited till September 2024 so that it would be too late to help Harris. After Butler, PA, Wall St. accepted that Trump was going to win and fell in line. Powell laid the foundation for a lot of what Bessent has accomplished. The Fed is no longer the lender of last resort for the UK and EU. LIBOR is dead and replaced with SOFR. The USDT has opened an entirely new market for U.S. Treasuries in the emerging markets, with over 420 million people using it to transact business.
Most of Trump’s “anger” at Powell was to prepare the public to accept that that the Fed is not independent and never has been. Warsh is in there to prove that. In the meantime, the administration has already set up a Hamiltonian “national bank” by creating credit facilities in various agencies, such as in the departments of Energy and War. For instance, the DoW has financed with public/private money over 250 new or expanding manufacturing facilities and production lines to build America’s armaments at home. This cuts out Wall St. and the Fed, as does the multiple $trillions Trump has secured in reciprocal trade deals with other sovereign nations.
Trump knows you can’t just “end the Fed” the way the lolbertarians whine endlessly about unless you have an institution in place to replace it. That won’t happen on Trump’s watch, but will under President Rubio/Vance.
Your reply would actually be accurate if you changed “Democrats” to “UniParty.”
Both wings of the UniParty are equally responsible for “politicizing” the Fed. (Perhaps “corrupting” would be a more accurate word?)
Let’s not pretend otherwise.
Isn’t the mere existence of the Fed the problem. The creation of the Fed gave control to entities beyond the common people?
Those that say this, however, I’m not sure what life would look like without the Fed and the impact on the economy without the Fed. Smarter economic minds know.
I don’t hear POTUS advocating for ending the Fed.
Same old same old, it’s not D vs R. You’re on the RINO bandwagon. The uniparty is anti American.
All of gov’t except President Trump’s team is anti American. Especially the 4th branch.
You need an ephipiny moment Terry…..the Fed was set up by the 17th Amendment to throttle America.
No one can compete with a free society. No one on God’s green earth can….in a fair system.
Artificial always fails. Repeat, artificial always fails in the end. Watch what happens to the EU and Canada.
I am old enough to remember the did the same thing to keep the Obama economy afloat……….
It’s really too bad AI/Bot spellcheck and grammar aren’t fully operational…
Globohomo might have been intentionall 😂
No doubt, and quite accurate to boot.
spellcheck and grammar are on our devices.
In the rush to post first:
slams on the breaks(?)
Interesting influencer?
Perhaps an agenda?
Indeed— slamming the “breaks” is right up there with declaring “Marshall” law!
The entire monetary and financial system is an intentionally complex scam.
“It was Henry Ford who said in substance this: ‘It is perhaps well enough that the people of the nation do not know or understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning’.” – Charles Binderup, 19 March 1937, in the House of Representatives (Congressional Record—House 81:2528).
NOT nutjob stuff:
The Biggest Scam In The History Of Mankind – Hidden Secrets of Money Ep 4 (29:34)
In Episode 4 of Hidden Secrets of Money, Mike Maloney breaks down one of the most important — and least understood — parts of the modern financial system: how currency is created.
This episode explains how Treasury bonds, Federal Reserve checks, banks, debt, taxes, and fractional reserve lending all work together inside what Mike calls the biggest scam in the history of mankind.
The core idea is simple but shocking: the Treasury issues IOUs, the banks buy those IOUs, the Federal Reserve writes its own IOUs, and currency springs into existence. The process repeats over and over, enriching the banking system while increasing the national debt and passing the bill to the public.
Mike also explains why inflation is not simply “prices going up,” why debt must keep expanding under the current system, and why understanding the difference between money and currency is essential.
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And I’m not a gold bug:
If the dollar were converted back to the gold standard I’m not sure anyone really knows what would happen to the price of gold.
True, but we do know it’s value will never drop to zero, unlike paper, fiat dollars.
All computer clocks would revert to 1999 and the end would be revealed. We’ve just been stuck in a DVD video skip since then.
Alex Jones will back me on this. s/
They would go back to 1971.
Hot tub Time Machine.
😂
Actually, she, presumably one who did not understand PM’s and economics and the nature of money, will be at his house on day 2 begging him to buy her a sandwich and to marry her.
Good one.
Great find, W. Thank you! 🙂
Even with a precious metal based currency, banks multiply the money.
I deposit money wanting interest. The bank keeps a little and loans the rest.
Without the loan I get no interest. Instead I have to pay to keep my money in the bank.
Whoever gets the loan puts it in a bank until he spends it.
The process repeats. The bank has more deposits than it has cash on hand. But it also has many times my deposit invested in the community.
This is why there are runs on banks and why we have deposit insurance.
But those hard coin gets traded around in ways that create and sustain much more wealth than the coins add up to.
Yes, we have broken that connection. Instead of $5 circulating for every $1 in gold or silver, we now have $5 circulating based solely on our trust in our government. Both systems are dominated by imaginary money.
But our system has totally gone imaginary, allowing them to consistently rob our earned wealth through inflation and by taxing such capital ‘gains’.
Banks multiply money because of fractional reserve banking. 100% reserve banks such as the Bank of Amsterdam founded in 1609 could expand it’s money supply only through more deposits, or the nominal charges for holding deposits. If you wanted to earn interest, you had to loan it yourself.
When the Federal Reserve Act passed in 1913, it was required to maintain a minimum of 40% gold on hand against the notes it issued. By the time the last tie to gold was severed in 1972 the reserve requirements depending on the class of bank was generally between 7 and 8% in US government securities or US Federal Reserve Bank notes.
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Since Covid it is 0%.
As you so aptly describe, totally imaginary.
The Fed slams on the breaks to stop the growth of what? You need to be clearer and more specific. Otherwise, your statement, while catchy, is meaningless.
Hi Mish,
I was reacting to a section of the video. Listening to the video will provide the context. Regardless, you have a point in that I could have added more context in my comment for those that didn’t watch the video.
Tu, I didn’t watch it yet…
Just my opinion but the globohomo is France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Italy and the UK. Switzerland and Austria are part of it too. All countries giving Islam freedom to control the whole of western civilization.
Globohomo – “global homogenization.” The push by global elites toward a single, borderless, uniform world culture that merges multiculturalism, mass migration, liberal-progressive values, corporate consumerism, and LGBTQ+ ideology.
It erases traditional national, cultural, and ethnic identities in favor of a rootless, interchangeable, “woke” global monoculture.
“……………a single, borderless, uniform world culture that merges multiculturalism, mass migration,…………”
I wonder, would there be mass migration if we were in a borderless, uniform world culture?
Why try to go somewhere else if everyone is already living at the lowest common denominator.
I know that is what it means. In fact its is happening in Western States with the issuance of black and white license plates and the State is just stamped on the bottom. People used to have pride in where they lived. Colorado had the green and white with mountain shapes. Wyoming had a bucking bronco with a cowboy astride. Now everyone just wants to be black and white like the us government plates.
Utah too.
Tennessee also
Tennessee???
Sad to hear that, because I’m
Looking for a Cadillac with Tennessee Plates.
Tennessee plates are now solid blue. They use to be white with green outline of the State
Pennsylvania plate since 2017:
New plate (looks worse in person, started to be issued last spring), supposedly to mark America 250:
This one was issued from 1971 – 1977 for the Bicentennial:
When are they going to start uniforming up the muslims and merging them into multiculturalism?
Multiculty isn’t homogenous. It’s a conflicting mishmash.
The underlying problems are (1) Excess growth of the Federal government, due to the funds it gets from the Federal Income tax; and (2) Direct election of US Senators. Both weakened the States financially and legislatively. The States were meant to work together and compete, with different ideas on how to run their governments and different policies to attract the best people and industries. The Swiss system today, seems to be similar to the early American Republic.
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“globohomo” — really? Are you some kind of middle school mean girl who has to denigrate someone else or some group to pretend to be clever?
And you realize, of course, that the Secretary of the Treasury is gay and is doing everything in his power to help Trump with the MAGA agenda?
Short for Global Homogenization
Thank you.
Maybe you would prefer this instead?
Seems to me the next President must continue MAGAnomics.
Trump is running out of time. To continue this, it needs to be added to.
Mr Trump would make a great Chief of Staff for the next President.
The big question is whether Rubio / Vance will continue the current policies, or will he be co-opted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and their allies, reversing the many gains under President Trump? There is significant pressure to continue H1B visa replacement of U.S. workers amongst the software industry, and many of the wealthy tech CEOs have access the administration. Musk and Ramaswamy very publicly aired their opinions more than a year ago in a somewhat foolish and clumsy manner. Wealthy interests who lack the skill to run for president and win will instead choose to lobby and co-opt the next president.
AMEN! We all presume and hope that PDJT’s wealth affords him historic freedom of movement to pursue goodness on behalf of the American people. Beyond that, our POTUS strikes me as a humanist with an intrinsic instinct to uplift those around him.
PDJT is a once in a century personality. He in a plain-spoken businessman with a heart and the abilities, means and determination to decisively succeed at the highest levels of complexity.
We will never see another in our lifetime, but the signature of a GREAT leader is the ability to foster apprentices to fill his shoes.
On the other hand, there is NOTHING in the Constitution prohibiting PDJT from assuming the role of “President Emeritus” if a fourth term is not in the cards for him! 🙂
Love that song by The Beat Farmers.
Yep. Rubio is coming around, jury is still out on Vance.
I can imagine Mr Trump stumping for either. It will be a sight to behold.
Yep. It needs years to unfold completely. The next Democrat/RINO will destroy it all and claim it as proof it was destined to fail.
Article III judges are appointed for life by the president. The Supreme Court, 13 circuit courts, 94 district courts, and court of international trade comprise some 870 judgeships. President Trump appointed a significant number of circuit court judges (appellate level) in his first term. Another 8-12 years of constitutionally-minded appointments would be great, reshaping the judiciary.
Too many, including too many here, are falling back into the “next in line” method of selecting candidates.
I won’t support anyone who wants to take us backwards, and if that means supporting a candidate not yet on the radar, I’m okay with that.
I will never not be suspicious of Vance. The unknown politico writing a best selling book is the preferred method of establishment sorts to enrich someone they seek to control.
That was made into a feature film.
Jekyll Island meeting… others making bad decisions that impact your life a century ago….
YES: Creation of the Fed. Imposition of the Federal Income tax. Direct election of US Senators. All in 1913.
1913…very, very, very bad year
Yes, it was.
Look up 1971. Taking us off the gold standard, push for green agenda, the “rural
massacre” that took all sitcoms off TV that had morals, and replaced them with
social justice guilt programs, women’s lib digs in, Kissinger prepares to sell us
down river to China, dumbing down of high school education standards, more
US industries on union labor strikes then any year in history, Nam still drags on,
US cars start being decontented, cheapened ( Look at the interior of a 1970 and
1971 GM car, and you’ll know what I’m talking about, inflation raises the costs
of cars and homes drastically over a few years prior……, major cities get bamboozled,
guilted into electing mayors like Colemen Young nationwide, school busing starts
in earnes….
Everybody says that 1968 was the year that changed everything. YTG thinks that
was the year the scouting occurred to see what they could get away with and where.
1971 was the year that it all came together.
Nice thumbnail, good catch.
Great example of the Uniparty in those days. The WEF World Economic Forum, SPLC Southern Poverty Law Center, Hart Research (Peter Hart polling for wedge issues, dividing Americans to win), all formed in 1971.
Who was POTUS at that time? Hmmm…
“The Promethean Action PAC is now highlighting the fundamentals of Trump’s MAGAnomics and how the policy is distinctly different from all U.S. economic policy before it.”
It would be nice to get that out in a way that MSM could not avoid it and would be forced to cover it for the millions of low information voters out there.
Ephesians Chap. 5:13
But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
Instead the MSM will push “bad economy” and avoid talking about Biden’s (handlers) and Ole Yellen’s intentional “transitory” inflation.
Millions will not only believe it but believe the Democommunists can somehow provide “affordability”.
What you are not getting about the “low information voters” Is they are not watching ANY news, not our news not “their” news.
That’s why they are low information.
When the “News” is on they are watching Vanna turn letters.
😂. Big Al, their noses are all in their phone; “Did you see that beat-down…so-and-so actress is divorcing so-and-so actor…”
Regarding the Toyota reference, if I am not mistaken the majority of Toyotas sold in the US are assembled there as well. Toyota has several automobiles that have more American parts in them than Ford or GovMo.
Correct, my Tacoma was assembled in mexico but damn near all the parts were made in the USA.
It does depend on the model. They used to assemble the Tacoma in San Antonio.
That’s pretty much Mexico
I believe the only Toyota sold here that is assembled in japan is the high dollar Four Runner.
Even the larger Pickup and the Larger SUV with the V8 engines are assembled here.
Yep. The big Lexus LX is also made in Japan but thats a tiny fraction of their sales.
Most of the Japanese and Korean autos are assembled in the US for that market.
Don’t forget Lexus production in Canada
Japan has a collapsing working age population and with Trump’s policies, it made sense for Japan to move jobs to the USA for the sales to the USA.
Their population is shrinking, but they don’t have the fentanyl and drug use “tax” on their working age population. A significant portion of our population is unemployable due to the drug scourge. Japan has been very talented at automating many service sector jobs. I also see many retirees working part-time in the tourism sector. Japan is very creative at meeting the worker shortage problem. Note also Prime Minister Takeuchi’s approach to working with President Trump versus Minister Carney
Takaichi.
YES! 🙂
And they were using robotics long before we caught on. They don’t need as many humans.
Japan has a pretty low unemployment rate. The demographic challenge also places demand on employment. The city I used to live in (population ~ 130,000) had a lot of younger doctors and nurses working in the health care sector. I was surprised to see a Japanese surgeon in her late 20s for a minor procedure. In a way, this is good because they are hiring their own and giving them necessary experience. Large hotels in Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagoya and other big cities will frequently hire Europeans for their English language customer service at the front desk.
I worked for Sony for 26 years. From the mid 1980s. Sony did the same here up to the end of 1990s.
Big points:
Free Trade – bad
Socialism – bad
Globalism – bad
Communism – bad
Establishment Republicans are socialists (free trade). You hear a “republican” talking about free trade, primary their ass out.
Democrats are communists or Fascists – always bad except Fetterman (lol)
MAGAnomics – The American System. The U.S. manufactures everything we need in-house. That leads to full employment with wage growth that always outpaces inflation, if there even is inflation to begin with. Tariffs are a critical tool to ensure we manufacture everything we need in-house.
Free trade bad. We want The American System.
It returns America back to a manufacturing country. That provides jobs to those who don’t really need or want to go to college.
Self sufficiency = Nothing can be withheld from you, by friend or foe!
Who woulda thunk that Lurch would be the only rational member of the A-Dems family?
The stroke re-wired his brain back to some semblance of rational thinking.
He still is infected with Libtard Disease, though.
Agree Mrs. Sunshine with everything, I would differentiate free trade though; we operate on it within the US, which is a good thing, but as leftists do–and RINOs are leftists–the meaning of words get corrupted. Free trade with other countries does not and cannot exist today, it is just another misnomer used to sell us out.
I find it hard to believe that we gave up manufacturing everything when that is why we won WWII.
We manufactured to fight Germany
We manufactured to help Britain to fight Germany.
We manufactured to help the USSR to fight Germany.
We manufactured to help the free French to fight Germany.
We manufactured to fight Japan.
We manufactured to help China fight Japan.
We saved Britain from being starved to death.
We succeeded in starving Japan of resources needed to fight us.
Afterward we planned on fighting in Europe again, needing us to manufacture and ship everything again.
Now, we buy our weapon components from our enemies or from overseas allies.
We can be starved like Japan was starved.
And we can’t manufacture enough weapons for Ukraine to compete with Russia.
We hosed our selves.
Yes: NAFTA
Bingo! I was a small manufacturer from the mid 80’s to 9-11 2001, I watched the decimation of small industry up close and personal. NAFTA was the death knell.
“That giant sucking sound”
I discovered Promethean Action about 3 months ago and have found them to be a very good source.
Same here.
They are a good source and have a good understanding of the enemy.
Yes, but always take it with a grain of salt.
She basically implied that the Trump assassination attempts were driven by the UK.
PA is doing wonderful work, but some of their stretching and shaping of their original founding thesis and diagnosis into the realities we are experiencing always caused me some reticence. There is so much more out there that we are not seeing.
Sundance, PA, Covid and Coffee and many others are doing The Lord’s Work shining the light and giving us better visibility of the world around us….
But everyone functions and operates in their “silos” (SHOUTOUT, Sundance!) based on who they are and what skills and perspectives they possess as they give WE The People more and more pieces of the puzzle to consider and weigh.
Five or ten years from now, we will have even more information and perspectives. I shudder to think of the good and evil at play, of which we are completely unaware, and how we will be viewing these amazing times in which we live.
In the meantime, I am thankful and grateful for any and everyone taking up the mantel to support and defend our Singular Constitutional Republic Under God. 🙂
And you can’t help but chuckle at how Our POTUS, DJT has looked at the world, decided that it doesn’t suit our needs, proceeded to upend everything, along the way branding it MAGAnomics, and is seemingly pursuing a path that puts the USofA squarely back into Hamiltonian economics and the core vision of our Founding Fathers….
All the while cleaning up the REFLECTING POOL!!!
5-D chess doesn’t even begin to explain what is going on around us! 🙂
He has been firing artillery at enemy forces non-stop.
Our POTUS always flies inside the OODA loop of his adversaries… and always in his own aircraft… 🙂
Literally and figuratively.
Shock and Awe!
Is that Satriales ?
Who’s on the left? is that Pauli?
Yup, Satriale’s. Probably is Paulie Walnuts, got the track suit on and has the reflector.
The British Empire cannot make what it needs.
It also needs lots of beta males who love their country and God.
That could take decades.
The last time I checked, the BE’s Backbone Manufacturing capabilities had been completely offshored after WWII…. 🙂
Case in point, Margaret Thatcher was born before Dubya Dubya Deuce… She had more huevos than BOTH Bushes!!! 🙂
The labor unions ruined Great Britain. Then the European Common Market plundered it. GB didn’t benefit from the Marshall Plan since we hadn’t bombed them. Short-sighted, that.
Here’s one for you neocons, eliminate the Social Security tax on senior citizens and stop spending trillions warring all over the globe. It won’t put any money into your campaign funds though so you never will do the right thing.
Don’t think there are any or many neocons HERE. Wrong website.
Idk, there are quite a few warmongers and supporters of big guv and big guv spending here…
FIRST, Repeal the Federal Income tax: shift taxation to the States. SECOND, stop the Federal redistribution system. THIRD, let the States run programs that concern their citizens, with proper oversight.
An encouraging word…
Free markets were not free, those markets were manipulated just like Canada and the US. We want fair markets. Free is utopia.
Free and fair for the consumer to decide. I would rather buy Japanese ramen soup over a can of Campbells or an American made luggage instead of a Chinese made one.
Free just means there is no one interfering between seller and buyer, as it is now and has been for a long time. Free doesn’t mean utopia in a market-based economy where people freely engage in transactions. If we had a free market, then we would have a fair market and level playing field for all.
*NB – This doesn’t mean equal outcomes are a part of a free, fair market. Some people are just poor with money and savings and have terrible spending habits.
Yes. It was all a false utopia. Sold to deceive us into rigging the game against us and enriching Wall Street while impoverishing Main Street and us the workers.
There are tons of ways to rig trade other than tariffs. And we let everybody else use them all against us.
And it was all rigged against us Americans. A rigged system cannot be free.
“Free markets” are a unicorn.
All of this is Gods hand working through His anointed ones.
To realize the stark reality in the differences between not just the last (null and illegal) administration and this one, but also every administration going back to the founding of the nation is mind boggling.
The Golden Age is clearly upon US. At the helm,,,,one of the anointed and yours truly President Donald J. Trump. Winning is now kicking back in a swimming pool filled with popcorn and drinking ice cold lemonade. You just want to smile. 😁
That’s Oren Cass Bessent is talking to on stage. Cass’s think tank, Commonplace, is one of the best sources for articles expressing the intellectual underpinnings of this New American System, which is essentially Hamilton’s system brought into the 21st Century. You can watch the whole discussion at Commonplace, links below. While you are there, check out Commonplace’s weekly update Understanding America.
There is also another foundational piece, which is the speech delivered by Jamieson Greer, the US Trade Rep., on January 20, 2026. The link to that is also below.
https://www.commonplace.org/
https://www.commonplace.org/p/economic-security-is-national-security
https://ustr.gov/about/policy-offices/press-office/speeches-and-remarks/2026/hamilton-today-trade-and-us-economic-strategy
okay, made me look. Had to find out who Oren Cass Bessent is – funny. It’s two different people. Commas aren’t so common anymore. Good one! 🙂
semicolen
Not as bad as I thought.
How long will it take to return the manufacturing lost to other countries back to the USA?
Decades for a full or near-full reversal, but meaningful progress in targeted sectors within 5–15 years. Returning “lost” manufacturing comprehensively is a massive, multi-decade undertaking due to the scale of offshoring since the 1970s–2000s, structural economic shifts, and practical constraints.
Scale of What Was Lost
– US manufacturing employment peaked at ~19.5–19.6 million in 1979. It fell to a low of ~11.5 million around 2009–2010 (a loss of ~6.5–8 million jobs, depending on exact metrics and including broader trade/automation effects). As of mid-2026, it’s around 12.6 million.
– Estimates of jobs lost specifically to offshoring/trade deficits (especially with China post-2001) range from ~3–5 million in manufacturing. Broader declines also stem from automation, productivity gains, and the shift to a service economy.
– The US now runs massive goods trade deficits (e.g., record levels recently), reflecting heavy reliance on imports for many consumer and intermediate goods.
Full “return” to 1970s-era dominance (as a share of employment or output) is unlikely, as the economy has grown and evolved. Manufacturing’s share of jobs has shrunk from ~22% in 1979 to ~8–9% today amid service-sector expansion.
Current Reshoring Momentum
Reshoring (bringing production back) + foreign direct investment (FDI) has accelerated:
– Since ~2010, announcements total over 2–2.5 million jobs (cumulative), with recent years seeing 244,000+ in 2024 and projections around 174,000 for 2025. About 1.7 million of these have reportedly been filled.
– This represents recovery of roughly 40% of offshoring losses in announced terms, concentrated in high-tech, autos, electronics, semiconductors, batteries, appliances, and medical devices.
– Drivers include tariffs/trade policy, supply-chain risks (COVID, geopolitics), CHIPS Act/IRA incentives, automation reducing labor-cost gaps, and “Total Cost of Ownership” (TCO) analyses showing hidden offshore risks.
Examples: GE Appliances moving production back (creating jobs in Kentucky), semiconductor investments, Apple facilities, John Deere expansions.
Realistic Timelines
– Individual projects/facilities: 1–3+ years from decision to full production (planning, permitting, construction, supply-chain setup, hiring/training). Some simpler cases (e.g., assembly, retrofits) in 6–12 months with automation/warehouses.
– Sectors like semiconductors, EVs/batteries, clean tech: Major gains already underway via CHIPS/IRA; new fabs and plants ramping over 3–10 years. These are capital-intensive but policy-supported.
– Broader manufacturing base: 10–20+ years for substantial recovery in output/jobs across many industries. Building entire ecosystems (suppliers, skilled labor, infrastructure) takes time. Construction and commissioning alone require years of certainty.
– Full reversal: Decades or effectively never in the same form, due to automation (fewer workers per output), global specialization, and economic shifts. Optimistic scenarios suggest accelerating reshoring could close much of the trade gap over 15–30 years with sustained policy.
Recent data shows mixed signals: strong announcements but some slowdowns in construction/employment in 2025, labor shortages, and persistent deficits.
Major Challenges Slowing Progress
– Workforce: Severe skills/labor shortages. Millions of unfilled roles projected; training takes years. Aging workforce and competition from other sectors.
– Costs and infrastructure: Higher US labor/energy/regulatory costs in some areas; building supply chains from scratch is expensive and slow. New plants often cost multiples of offshore equivalents.
– Ecosystems: Many industries lack full domestic supplier networks. Scaling takes time.
– Policy and economics: Uncertainty in tariffs/taxes slows decisions. Automation helps competitiveness but limits job numbers. Not all production makes economic sense to reshore (TCO shows ~20–30% viable in many analyses).
– Global realities: Some “friendshoring”/nearshoring (e.g., Mexico) instead of full US reshoring.
Bottom Line
Significant, high-value manufacturing is already returning and will expand in the 2020s–2030s, especially in strategic sectors, supported by policy and technology. This could add hundreds of thousands more jobs and boost resilience. However, a complete return of all lost capacity (in jobs or output share) would likely take 20–40+ years or prove partial, as the US economy prioritizes higher-productivity activities. Success depends on sustained policy stability, workforce investment, automation, and TCO-driven business decisions. Optimists point to recent records as a turning point; realists note structural headwinds. Progress is measurable but incremental.
Scale of What Was Lost
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“America doesn’t MAKE anything anymore …”
“America makes pizzas and pole dancers …”
I am both a realist and an optimist.
During World War II, it did not take thirty years to crank things up.
President Trump is blocking off the headwinds.
A fairly solid industrial base was in place at the time, Saint Franklin’s tinkering/interference notwithstanding.
Mike Rowe has been right all along Trade Schools need to be brought back to the fore.
Us older coots need to get our knowledge on how to make things to interested kids before we croak. We are on a war time footing for our survival we either Fight! or drift away.
Communists and Democrats do not understand economics. They push policies that are economically unsound.
Just take DEI….. Do you think any manufacturer with a beating heart wants to hire unqualified people? There are enough mistakes to fix hiring the best. DEI leads to chaos which leads to not being profitable. Government can get away with it until it runs out of Other Peoples Money.
I’m curious how Mrs. S seems to always be the first one to comment whenever Sundance post something new. Curious cat.
I’m going with Divine Intervention for $500 Alex. 😎
She could hang out on the CTH homepage and keep hitting the “refresh” button every couple of minutes.
Works from home?
Light is fast.
I am lucky enough to just stumble into a new thread…. including this one… but I will not plant a FIRST! flag just for the heck of it unless I have a constructive comment to make on the subject.
She also has constructive comments to make.
I did look into Follow/RSS feed for CTH on brave…. O/T has been up about 10 minutes but not informed of it as of yet.
So my thinking shifts to the bizzare as I learn more and more about The American System and the current MAGAnomics.
Going out on a limb here. I am glad that Trump didn’t get his 2nd consecutive term. He got four years to plan and find a MUCH better cabinet to implement what is happening now.
God’s plan all along?
That does come to mind
This is where the coup screwed up.
Sundance,
I’m still reading both the linked page contained in this post and this post and processing some things, but I do have 2 immediate questions that jump out at me.
1) is GDP still going to play a large/majority role in this new Main St. economy? If so, I fail to see how this idea differs from our current economy due to the fact that GDP as it is now is based mostly on government spending. Put another way, if government spending is included in the GDP of this new economy, the new economy can be declared a success due to the inclusion of government spending.
And, related
2) Will the things that should be included in GDP that currently are not included be included in this new Main St. economy to more accurately reflect real, actual Main St. GDP? Those things are currently excluded so as to conceal the real, actual Main St. economy, which skew the governments numbers. This is currently done intentionally to hide how badly Main St. actual economy is.
We didn’t win WWII by government spending. We won by production.
Building stuff is the only way to defeat our adversaries. A “service economy” cannot do that.
False. You’re just raising the question, both morally and economically, of whether the U.S. government had any business getting involved and getting people murdered and turning others into murderers and whether the people would have been better off both morally and economically if the U.S. government had refrained from entering and allowed Americans to save money and lives.
All government spending comes from producers because government is not a producer, it is a parasite, it only consumes. Thus, it must take from producers who are then left with less to save or consume as they see fit. Therefore, no single average American benefitted from the increased government spending to produce wartime necessities.
If you believe what you’re saying send me all your money and I’ll spend it for you because what I spend it on will increase the productivity of those I buy things from.
You’re committing the broken-window fallacy.
I do agree with you re: a service economy, Moe, and building stuff, just not with .gov being involved in the process.
The GDP is just a statistic based on whichever system it is applied to.
All this being said … these are still not “American” Corporations!
The rules are still distorted such that, for example, the “Apple Computer Company” that was originated in a Cupertino, California garage … decided to become … “Irish?”
Fundamentally, our goal must be to re-educate American corporations to become … “American corporations!”
If you are doing most of your business in “America,” then you should be incorporated under its laws – and you should experience very-compelling business conditions that strongly encourage you to do so.
“Toyota,” “Hundai,” etcetera … Sure, it’s great that these foreign companies are creating substantial industrial plants here. But, they are not American corporations!
Yes it would be nice for them to stay as American companies but I lay the blame squarely on our politicians.
Politicians have constantly changed law’s both tax & operational that if you are a big enough company it is financially more attractive to be incorporated somewhere else.
Since currently in the news for some reason./s
Example: why are most oil tankers & LNG tankers not flagged in ANY originating countries esp the USA?
AI answer:
Oil tankers are primarily flagged in other countries to operate under flags of convenience (FOCs), a system where 75–80% of the global merchant fleet registers in open registries like Panama, Liberia, and the Marshall Islands rather than their owner’s home nation.
Shipowners choose these flags to significantly reduce costs through lower registration fees and taxes, while avoiding strict domestic labor laws and environmental regulations found in traditional maritime nations.
Same/similar for big corporations, they do it because it makes financial sense to do so.
Another that is in the news…. Billionaire taxes in Cali (state Pols)…. the exodus began as soon as was being bantered about, now the billions that were being recieved from said people, will now be passed on to the non-Billionaires all the way down to the serfs, IE increased sales tax revenues.. such as on food IDK if CA charges sales tax on “food” items, CO sure does (tourist $$$), they never did in IN as far as I know when I left in 2011.
NY we will see how they extract the $$$ they need to replace the high earners that fled do FL.
You do have the choice not to buy from them.
Adam Smith’s invisible hand, free trade, and free markets are the very principles that the American system is based on.
Where Smith fell short in his theory is in recognizing that in order for these principles to be effective, they must be implemented within a closed system, operating on the same fair rule book for all concerned; i.e. within the United States, vs an open system based on international markets and free trade that operates on many different rule books.
If the Dallas Cowboys moved to a different city they would still have to play by the same rule book, but if they could operate under a different rule book that allowed them to field twice as many players for the same amount of money, simply by relocating to a foreign country, they would be guaranteed to be Super Bowl Champions; within the blink of an eye, all NFL teams would relocate to that country. Implementing prohibitive tariffs against the Cowboys would get them to relocate back to the US, and prevent the other teams from moving out.
The irony is that Smith’s advocacy of zero tariffs and free trade with other nations destroys the very system he is advocating for. Free trade and zero tariffs only work inside our country, not without
Susan does not discern that difference; Trump does though, by using Adam Smith within our borders and protecting our free market from those who wish to destroy it.
I came to post this PA video & once again here it is.
The know-it-alls & the TDS trolls and the bots still won’t get it.
…So I’ll share this one – it’s new too
Why did you say that? Are you not just as free to come here and post your video with bots and know-it-alls as you are in their absence, or, are you upset that not everyone sees things as you do and are engaging freely in conversation and lively discussion in the hopes of better understanding the world we live in so we can more accurately orient ourselves to living in it?
She might have said it because what you and a few others engage in is not “lively discussion.” You indulge in ramming ideas one after another like a machine gun. But it’s all theatre because the bottom line is you want to beat the drum you don’t like government involvement.
You could just say that instead shelling the field.
Your use of the “child” slur in another of your posts is you dropping the machine gun and lobbing grenades.
Lively discussion? No.
I knew why and called her out on it. No one is obligated to see things her way. Some of us are independent thinkers and that requires persuasion. I don’t just swallow assertions wholesale. Think you’re right about a subject? Convince me your position is correct and true, don’t pout if I reject your assertions because your premises are false and not valid.
Re: the ” ramming” of comments. I see plenty of users engaging in the same actions, yet interestingly, I don’t see you or her reacting and responding to those many users in the same way. Why is that? Why are you and she really singling me out?
Re: the “child” comment. It was warranted.
Re: being anti-state. There are many users here that are pro-state/statists and they post their love and loyalty to the state in various ways constantly, yet interestingly enough, again, I see neither you nor her chiding them. So, again, why are you singling me out? My conservative bona fides are just as good, if not better than many here and according to Sundances “about” page truth and freedom and liberty and those who love such things are welcome here, and I assure you, I am all about those things.
Are you high on something?
Reading your mishmash of ideas is exhausting.
Lol! Absolutely not. If they’re too difficult to grasp or not interesting, skip passed them.
You caught me out.
You may be onto something, Ms.
In every area of endevour, it’s exhausting to expect nonsense to make sense – look at all the nonsense as entertainment and it’s *very* amusing… Libs-of-Tik-Tok coupled with Lefties Losing It-level amusing.
Stand back, observe, & just enjoy the nincompoopery.
(Hat Tip to Lovely Rita Panahi for an adjective of supreme perfection suitable for so many occasions in the TDS era)
I could show an example from that other page you referenced… the very next comment down in fact… “independent thinking” demonstration… though I won’t because it’s so clear it might be cruel here outside of Rita’s & Chaya’s framework – but its there in the wild & it fits.
“The proof of the pudding is in the eating” and some people just don’t like pudding.
We like pudding; we’ve eaten a lot of pudding; we’re on our 4th helping today.
This I WILL share
Thought police.
Alleycats once said she guards the perimeter (believe I’m quoting her correctly). You might say I like her style.
Yep, some people like to talk about ideas, others like to talk about people.
Name calling because you don’t or can’t see others perspective might not be considered lively discussion. Racist is what some people call others when they are losing a civil debate and the facts are too much for them to comprehend.
Like four years ago the national adverage gas price was $5.09 but they will only repeatedly state that gas prices are higher today than a year ago.
Inconsistent facts are too much for them to compute so they resort to childish name calling.
These people will rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.
We see them.
Yes, I see them, too. So easy to spot.
Promethian is a great site
Sundance — 2 questions, please
1 – who are the flag bearers in the political cartoon?
2 – who among PresTrump’s advisors had the depth of knowledge to formulate and administer the tariff-based economic strategy and foreign policy?
Who were the main strategists? If there was one main leading light, who would that be?
Thanks
Hillary and Jeb! I think
thx John
OT……starting today……
No popups……
No virus scan warnings…..
No redirects to Google…….
What changed…..????
I came from the trades back in the 50s and 60s and when I was eight my Dad had me sweeping floors and sorting nuts and bolts in his and Uncle Joe’s storeroom on Saturdays. My boss, the storeroom manager, was a retired master sergeant namde Mr. Al By fourteen I worked summers in Dad’s machine shop, operating the drill press, threader and band saw, but not the lathe because I wasn’t good enough! Didn’t matter that I was the bosses’ kid…you got to be good enough!
Years later, when I came to work in a white shirt and tie, I still felt blue collar at heart. I never forgot my time working around machinists, blunt-fingered men who came to work in cars that smoked more than their cigars who washed their hands with Lava soap.
It was in the sixties that working in the trades started getting a bad name from the post-college generation who thought they were better than the plumbers, electricians and carpenters who allowed these young neo-snobs to live upscale lives without knowing how to fix anything in their lives, either at home and business.
But they weren’t better, they were worse, but they just didn’t know it!
When America was young, it was an honor to be accepted as an apprentice to a master tradesman, like a millwright or a cooper and nobody aspired to get doctorates in psychology or social studies, because such things were of no use to a man trying to afford to take a wife or to provide for family.
In my humble opinion we need to get back to that, to restore the dignity of working with ones hands and knowing how things actually work!
Trump is helping us be that way again! God Bless him and God Bless America!
Yep. A lot of us had small jobs when we were young. They taught us responsibilities. Being on time. Being clean cut. Good manners.
Now it’s called child labor or slave labor.
We used to work with an orphanage in Mexico, where the children could live until age 18. Once the young men turned 13, they were put into the “teen boys” house, where they all lived with an older couple who taught them discipline and responsibility.
They were each put into apprenticeship programs for various jobs, either at the orphanage, or in the surrounding community, with families that were known to the local church. They could go into mechanic school, carpentry, masonry, or horticulture. Those who seemed inclined were given college prep classes to prepare them for university.
But then the orphanage decided to start working with the Mexican version of Social Services, so that they could get a small monthly check for each child. BUT, the caveat was that the kids were no longer allowed to “work” because that was considered to be child labor! No surprise, most of them got involved with local gangs by the time they were 15 or 16, left the orphanage, and never even finished high school!
When Helping Hurts….and sadly, most of the American visitors cheered the end of the apprenticeships because they LOVED to come down for a week and “do things” that the kids could, and should, have been doing, But then the visitors got to go back home and tell everyone what good people they were because they “helped the poor”!
And Trump needs to revamp Bush’s 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act. Why you ask. Because it is the reason college is the out of control behemoth it is today churning out useless degrees. Bush created the student loan fiasco we have today due to his 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act which prohibits discharge of student loans via personal bankruptcy. In other words borrower creditworthiness was no longer a consideration in student loans. This Act made Uncle Sam the ultimate guarantor on student loans, if borrower defaulted, so student loans were given out to anyone who applied in any amount no credit check needed. Obama federalized the entire industry in 2010. If the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act was voided or reworked to where student loans could be discharged via personal bankruptcy borrower creditworthiness would become a factor in the market. No more loans given out to anyone going to college would 1) cut off the cash cow feeding universities, 2) students would have to find a way to pay for college so would bet 75% of them don’t attend or those that do want to go would find ways to finance college via working or family and 3) with the cash cow neutered universities would have to start decreasing tuition and lay off all the administrators and useless faculty. Do not allow anyone to declare bankruptcy immediately when they graduate, make them have to have 8 years out of the past 10 years of keeping their student loans current. Until the provision in Bush’s 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act, relating to student loans, is addressed the government program will continue to allow people to get useless degrees at big government expense, when the student would be better served learning a trade or other occupation not needing a college degree.
Maybe that should be a job interview question.
Have you ever washed your hands with Lava soap?
We used Boraxo.
Lava or Fels Naptha, here.
When I was in my early 20’s in the early 80’s and hanging out with people in my age group there was always one that would have to say “Oh you’re just a blue collar” then I would have to correct them and say “No, it’s dirty collar. It doesn’t matter what color shirt I wear.”
My best learning experiences was during my five years as an apprentice pipe-fitter from 1964 to 1969.
A journeyman was a title hard earned, well respected and well paid.
But lava soap was just so gritty and did not smell pretty. I didn’t like it.
Trump actually said some his economic policies agree with Bernie during the 2016 campain
Nice to see more ‘influencers’ are reading the Treehouse; while still will be keeping a very healthy distance from anything Promethean, it is nice to see Sundance’s work being heard and spread and hope more of those ‘influencers’ do the same, ’cause it’s true, truth has no agenda even if the messenger has their own ulterior motives.
As an aside, a central bank was a big point of contention between the federalists and anti-federalists bitd. Now we can better understand why.
Yes, States’ rights was a real thing. It wasn’t all about slavery.
States rights are still a thing. It’s just that most have accepted the idea that it’s the federal government that should be strong. It also doesn’t help that the states kept intellectuals, court historians and other gatekeepers for the state keep the idea suppressed so it isn’t more widely and openly discussed, cuz, you know, the people might start getting ideas.
And, no, it wasn’t about slavery. That was just Lincoln’s pretense to increase Federal power and more centralize it. Old Abe was anything but honest. He was a tyrant. Court historians have totally whitewashed the guy.
Slavery was already known to be falling out of vogue around most of the world, especially in Europe. It was only a matter of time before it happened here naturally as well.
If Lincoln really wanted to be honest and peaceful and end slavery he could have simply bought them, set rhem free and compensated slave-holders for their loss and there wouldn’t have been a costly war of aggression by the north and no violation of states rights and centralizing federal power. It would have been cheaper and less costly in lives lost, too because we’re still paying the true costs of upsetting the federalism the framers set up for us.
The other motivation old honest Abe used slavery as the pretense for was because the Yankee’s up north wanted a cut of the souths tariff money rolling into their ports.
‘States rights are still a thing. It’s just that most have accepted the idea that it’s the federal government that should be strong.‘
No, its just that the federal government pours fiat money on the states if they obey the federal government diktak, withholds if they don’t. Simple.
Remember the 55mph national speed limit? That was coerced using threat of withholding federal highway money.
It always boils down to money.
Like the way the opposition to the insidiously harmful genetic manipulation shots was silenced by pharma bribing media with advertising, monopoly on research funding by government, and government carrot (money) and stick (section 230 threat) applied to Tech to coerce propaganda and censorship.
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/shellenberger-testimony.pdf
Pay close attention to the pathologies listed in the image, associated with the shots injected into most Americans. Every single one is corroborated by numerous sources. Cancer is implicated by several, and also amyloid disorders associated with neuro degeneration e.g. Alzheimer’s (protein misfolding disorders).
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-vaccine-mrna-plasmid-dna
PS – MAGAnomics, or any economic system, requires a majority of healthy functional humans to work.
PPS – the genetic manipulation injections were ONLY COERCED INTO THE US AND ALIGNED WESTERN NATIONS. Not China, Russia, Iran, and others outside that US sphere. Starting to get the picture?
“MAGAnomics, or any economic system, requires a majority of healthy functional humans to work.”
Something like cancer or prion disease also undermines loved ones with the afflicted. Multiplying the sandbagging of MAGAnomics, despite rosy predictions.
So many sources corroborating the long-term shot harms subverting the US. Example:
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/amyloids-prion-diseases-and-spike
Interesting article at American Greatness
https://amgreatness.com/2026/06/06/europe-2-0-beyond-brussels-the-end-of-the-european-union-as-we-know-it/
Ultimately, “the European Union” will prove to be the second “Grand Social Experiment™ that failed.” The first will be “the USSR.”
Each of them will/were be ultimately be rejected by their founders. Because they did not reflect social realities on the ground.
Yes. I found interesting parallels to US as well. The comments about Switzerland were very interesting: in some ways, it sounds similar to the way the US Federal Republic was set up.
I started following Sundance when he was ‘splainin’ the economy between mains street and wall street. That was a looong time ago. I just dont post often
And that tell the entire story!
Donald Trump believes in the People.
Bernie Sanders wants to Rule the People.
That is the difference.
Bernie needs other peoples money to effect his Utopia
Donald Trump the other peoples money to be driving the economy by their own choice and not stolen, grifted, skimmed, or abused by any other powers that be.
The “Trump” approach described arguably restores manufacturing and associated jobs to US, while increasing consumer costs. Had this been done 25 or 30 years ago it would have been more effective more quickly. The “Bernie” approach merely provides more opportunity for lobbying, government looting, and poverty, as described accurately in “Atlas Shrugged”.
“increasing consumer costs”
Not sure about that in the long run….maybe a little in the short run.
Think unions will have any play in the cost?
Thank you, SD, for an especially cogent and highly meaningful commentary. My understanding of this dynamic was between non-existent and eggshell thin.
Sundance,
I gotta be honest. I still have to process more of this plan because as it stands, without a total abolition of the Fed and central bank, all I’m seeing is a more sophisticated way of a centrally-planned economy and way of wracking up debt and more spending. It all sounds so “awesome” and scintillating, but color me skeptical at this time. The mere fact that a central bank will continue to exist is why. I have some more work to do and I’ll do my best to keep an open mind, but again, a Fed/central bank and central-planning are a deal-breaker. I’m bookmarking this page because I plan on referring back to it.
Should we go back to the mish mash of state and territorial notes that were in existence prior to a central bank?
No, I don’t believe that’s a good idea for people. Lessons were learned from that period of history.
I believe the absolute best move to make is to allow for competing currencies such as PM’s and cryptos, but I wouldn’t hold my breath that Congress would repeal all laws allowing that and having an actual monetary reform that benefits the common man.
The cabal is planning another lighting fast plague. You watch. They cannot have this, they will poison their own well to keep this nation from taking their destiny into the people’s hands.
Look at the BFS they are pulling in California with that damn primary.
London Town is going to unleash something horrific on the world.
Promethean has the most coherent explanation for events
No other explanations are in the same ballpark
Free tradism, the Bank of Rothschild aka FED, and Marxist light Keynesianism need to die
A wooden stake through the heart
Unfortunate that Trump expanded the H1B and Chinese student visas.
Henry Clay was ‘spot on’. We must strive for self sufficiency. (example: made in USA surgical masks will cost more, but with rising tide, they are affordable). Is Navarro today’s Clay?
Disposable *everything* costs more no matter where its produced –
recurring cost-to-consumers/ profits was assured by the low-integrity, nefarious concept of ‘planned obsolescence’, so almost everything now is designed & made to fail in a very short time so it needs replacing; just throw it out & get another one because its not worth fixing or it can’t be fixed at all because it’s made of unredeemable crap in the first place.
Disposable everything is an egregiously costly burden on Humanity – not least by being the source of uncontrolled land & water pollution… money-wise it’s a sucking-vortex-money-pit in almost everyone’s personal life.
Did you ever even notice how much garbage you throw out or how many items you have to replace in a year? NOt being able to notice is a function of the spell cast to put us all to sleep & normalize the deliberate disintegration of us/US.
It wasn’t always this way – low integrity people made it so almost everything is made with low integrity materials & methods and cannot last…
and it doesn’t always have to be this way.
POTUS has demonstrated with his DC restoration project – and all his real estate projects for that matter – that building with *integrity* is the definition of “high quality”; high quality has a considerable life-span.
Low quality planned-obsolescence disposable anything is far more expensive and comes from low integrity sources. That’s an imposed pattern We The People would do well to break our addiction to – boycott – as one more substantial way to
stop the financial blood-letting-for-profits at the hands of the life-blood-sucking corporate parasites.
SD, good to see you on the same page with Promethian Action. You may not see the connection with my next comment but, maybe you’re a bitcoiner after all. On that finance topic, read Porter Stansberry’s 2029 End of America: Why the Age of Paper Money Is Ending and How to Survive the Coming Global Monetary Reset. Probably the best book I’ve read this year. Anyway, Vegas Golden Knights will upset the Canes to win the Stanley Cup. Thank the Lord for Tulsi. Tulsi you are loved.