Most knew this was upcoming; today it is official…
(New York, NY) – President-elect Donald J. Trump today announced his intent to nominate Dr. Ben Carson to serve as Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

 
Dr. Carson is a distinguished national leader who overcame his troubled youth in the inner city of Detroit to become a renowned neurosurgeon who served as the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland.
“I am thrilled to nominate Dr. Ben Carson as our next Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,” said President-elect Trump. “Ben Carson has a brilliant mind and is passionate about strengthening communities and families within those communities”.
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President-elect Donald Trump reminds the world “America-First” is a policy, not a suggestion:

OMG, OMG,… O.M.G. he,… he,… well,… he used the Twitter.
Media ‘splodey heads in 3,… 2,…. 1,…

Arrivederci Renzi

UPDATE:  Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi conceded defeat and pledged to resign on Sunday after Italian voters rejected his proposed reforms to the country’s constitution, setting further in motion a populist wave that has sent shockwaves throughout the west in the past six months, and ushering in a brand new period of uncertainty to the Eurozone’s third largest economy. (link)


The Italian Interior Ministry says over 70% of eligible voters took place in the referendum.
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Clinton Foundation donor George Stephanopoulos attempts to create controversy during a scheduled interview with Vice President-elect Mike Pence around the issue of taking a phone call from Taiwan’s president.
As with the prior presentation by Chris Wallace (FNS), the globalist ideologues are ideologically concerned about an administration willing to put America’s economic interests first and foremost; in this example above China. The larger globalist concern is specifically because economic nationalism is an existential risk to decades of leftist policies. A strong U.S.A. is antithetical to their objectives.

As the Democrat Party continues to debate how to regain their relevance, the Trump coalition continues to grow even after the election. Donald Trump’s political influence as a businessman, now President-elect, exists in that rare authentic space where traditional politicians have consistently failed.
Not only is Trump completely reshaping the republican party, more importantly he’s establishing a coalition that will overwhelm any DC opposition in the short-term, and make any political opposition futile in the long-term.  Legendary winning!
INDIANAPOLIS — Steeling himself against the cold outside the Carrier air-conditioning plant on Thursday, Brian Dyson is ecstatic.
“Look, when Trump came here and said he was going to save jobs, I saw that as just another promise from a politician. Now I realize he is not a politician but a salesman and a deal-maker,” he said, pausing then adding, “And I kind of like it.”

[…]  Trump deserves great credit for pulling this off, and certainly he deserves a second look from those of us who dismissed him because of how crazy this election cycle was. And you know what? He also deserves credit for coming to places like here, the middle of nowhere that politicians only talk about, not talk to…

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The Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is attempting to push back against increasing nationalistic sentiments by establishing a referendum tomorrow to fundamentally adjust the political powers of central governance.

In essence, tomorrow Italians will vote “YES” to approve of Renzi’s referendum, or “NO” to oppose his referendum.  The referendum itself is a wide ranging construct intended to realign and centralize political power away from Italy’s current regional influences.
An analogy for Americans might be to think of Italy’s referendum as the elimination of the U.S. constitution’s 10th Amendment.  [Which essentially says all powers not directly given to the federal government are necessarily retained by the states.]   Italy’s vote tomorrow is to determine if their regions (states) are willing to cede power to Renzi’s centralized (federal) government. (more…)

Ok, this one strategic maneuver has just pegged my too-much-winning needle on max overdrive. Donald Trump took a congratulatory phone call from the President of Taiwan, and now the Chinese will be apoplectic.
Those of you who have been with us for a while, will note our arguments against China’s MFN (Most Favored Nation) trade status have continually fallen on deaf ears within DC.  Why?  Because they are political ears paid to remain necessarily deaf, while various Chinese national interests have taken influence over our legislative priorities on trade and commerce.

In short, we’ve been ripped off.  Bigly.  For decades.
Rule #1 in any trade deal is to fully understand who is the customer within the equation.  The U.S. market is the biggest trade customer on this entire beautiful blue planet.  We hold all the leverage.  Access, or denial of access, to this market is the leverage.  (more…)

It is going to take years to break through the false constructs of radical left-wing economic principles which have been sold by modern academia and corporate media.  However, eventually people will recognize once again that being allowed to keep their own money, the outcome of their own labor, is not an expense on government.

The current Carrier HVAC story is an example of economic cognitive dissonance.  Allowing Carrier to keep a larger portion of their own income, to afford a larger labor force, is not a government expense. Government does not own the income, Carrier does.
The reason Mexico was the better play was simply because by changing locations the company could: A.) make more, and B.) keep more – of its own revenue.  Donald Trump is attempting to reverse this cancerous economic system and create the better play right here in the U.S.A.
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Today President-elect Donald Trump and Vice-President-elect Mike Pence will be visiting the Carrier HVAC manufacturing plant in Indiana to deliver remarks surrounding a negotiated deal to remain in the U.S.  There is a 2:00pm Live Stream scheduled:

Perhaps the greatest benefit for more than a few within the private sector is the dawn of a new generational economic awakening coming soon amid an electorate suffering from forty years of severe battered conservative syndrome.
For approximately four decades the progressive left, the Fabian crews writ large, have been working diligently, mostly through pop culture and academia, to undermine the very essence of capitalism.

Both “academia” and “Hollywood” have aided the globalist cause to undermine American capitalism and exceptionalism by presenting an entirely false construct within economic discussion; specifically within the production value of labor, ie earned income or money.
Terms like “tax expenditure” and “government spending” have become so commonplace people don’t even give a second glance when they are uttered.   The bottom line of such acceptances is an electorate who no longer realize they are being, and have been, subjected to professional economic gaslighting.
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