POMPEO AND BOLTON: TRUMP'S TAG TEAM OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION!

by Antonius Aquinas

With the welcome departure of war mongering UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, the Trump Administration’s neocon tag team of death and destruction – Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor (NSA), John Bolton – have enthusiastically taken up where the repellent Haley has left off. It is highly doubtful that the former Ambassador will meekly stay under the rock beneath which she crawled. It seems possible that she will reappear as a primary challenger to her former boss in 2020, and, most certainly, as a Presidential contender in 2024.

SAVINGS – NOT TARIFFS WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

by Antonius Aquinas

While the farcical Kavanaugh confirmation hearings dominated the news cycle for the past couple of weeks, little mention was made of a disturbing economic headline – the August US trade deficit. Despite all the bluster from the Trump Administration about “winning trade wars” and “trade wars are easy,” America’s trade imbalances for August were the highest ever and its deficit with its most contentious partner – China – reached an all-time high.

POPE FRANCIS: A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER!

The Church has a problem.

by Antonius Aquinas

There is probably no greater threat to the long-term survival of the Occidental peoples of the world than the purported head of the Catholic Church, Jorge Bergoglio, a.k.a. Pope Francis.

Last month, in his plea for greater “acceptance” of refugees, Bergoglio held a “Mass” where several migrants and their family members attended. The service was to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Bergoglio’s visit to the island of Lampedusa which has been a launching pad for invading migrants on their path to destroy what is left of European civilization.

THE UNITED STATES OF TERROR

by Antonius Aquinus

Two recent articles have again demonstrated that the greatest “terrorist” entity on earth is not the bogymen – Russia, China, Iran, North Korea – so often portrayed by Western presstitudes and the American government, but the United States itself!

THE FED'S "INFLATION TARGET" IS IMPOVERISHING AMERICAN WORKERS

by Antonius Aquinas

At one time, the Federal Reserve’s sole mandate was to maintain stable prices and to “fight inflation.” To the Fed, the financial press, and most everyone else “inflation” means rising prices instead of its original and true definition as an increase in the money supply. Rising prices are a consequence – a very painful consequence – of money printing.

POPE FRANCIS WANTS EVEN MORE ISLAMIC INVASION OF EUROPE

by Antonius Aquinas

Not surprisingly, the purported head of the Catholic Church, Jorge Bergoglio, a.k.a. Pope Francis, has ushered in 2018 with another denunciation of those who want to preserve what is left of Western Civilization.  

In a New Year’s address that the Church now calls “World Day of Peace,” instead of the traditional feast day of the Circumcision, Bergoglio once again labeled those who want to curb the coercive migration of Third Worlders into Occidental cultures as "sowers of violence," "xenophobic," and people who "racially discriminate."

HEAVEN FORBID PEACE SHOULD BREAK OUT BETWEEN THE U.S. AND NORTH KOREA!

by Antonius Aquinas

As long as the US Empire can be funded and maintained on the backs of its taxpaying public, the chance of a de-escalation of tensions not only on the Korean peninsula, but throughout the world are practically nil. And, as long as the nation’s current interventionist ideology holds sway, it will only be through a financial meltdown that the US’s role as global policeman will come to a much-needed end. The most recent example of the world’s biggest bully escalating matters is its on-again, off-again badgering of North Korea.

WHY CHINA IS OVERTAKING THE WEST

by Antonius Aquinas

Instead of indulging in arrogant displays of military might, intended to intimidate tiny North Korea and pressure China, President Trump and the West would be better advised to try to learn a few things from China .

The President’s recent trip to the Far East came on the heels of the completion of China’s 19th National Congress, where the current president, Xi Jinping, has cunningly positioned himself as China’s unchallenged leader. In an address at the opening of the Congress, Xi cautioned that the country faced "challenges" that are "extremely grim" yet, despite these, the nation’s future is "extremely bright."

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND THE FALSIFICATION OF HISTORY

by Antonius Aquinas

The Los Angeles City Council’s recent, crazed decision to replace Christopher Columbus Day with one celebrating “indigenous peoples” can be traced to the falsification of history and denigration of European man which began in earnest in the 1960s throughout the educational establishment (from grade school through the universities), book publishing, and the print and electronic media.

It is amazing that, as of yet, the federal holiday commemorating the Genoese explorer’s world-changing voyage has not come under attack. It is doubtful that in the current radicalized leftist ideological atmosphere, the national government’s recognition of Columbus will survive much longer.

THE STUDENT LOAN BUBBLE AND ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

by Antonius Aquinas

The inevitable collapse of the student loan "market" and with it the takedown of many higher educational institutions will be one of the happiest and much needed events to look forward to in the coming months/years. Whether the student loan bubble bursts on its own or implodes due to a general economic collapse, does not matter as long as higher education is dealt a death blow and can no longer be a conduit of socialist and egalitarian nonsense for the inculcation of young minds.

THE ULTIMATE REGULATORY REFORM: ABOLISH FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING

by Antonius Aquinas

The Trump Administration has presented the first part of its plan to overhaul a number of Wall Street financial regulations. Many of these were enacted in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The administration's proposals are included in a report released by the U.S. Department of the Treasury the entitled "A Financial System That Creates Economic Opportunities" (6th June, 2017).

The report was prompted by Executive Order 13772. This ordered the US Treasury Department to examine the United States’ financial regulatory system and detail "executive actions and regulatory changes that can be immediately undertaken to provide much-needed relief."

TRUMP IS AN ECONOMIC IGNORAMUS!

by Antonius Aquinas

Not surprisingly, Donald Trump has followed in the infamous footsteps of his presidential predecessors in the transition from candidate to chief executive. Invariably, every candidate for the presidency makes a whole host of promises, the vast majority of which are horrible and typically only exacerbate the problems they attempt to resolve. Among the proposals, however, there is an occasional bright spot. Yet, once elected the stupid polices are eagerly pursued while the good ones are quickly discarded.

THE COST OF A TRUMP PRESIDENCY

by Antonius Aquinas

Last Thursday’s wanton attack on a Syrian air field by the US and its bellicose actions toward North Korea have brought to the forefront the real cost of candidate Trump’s landslide victory last November.

DONALD AND THE DOLLAR

by Antonius Aquinas

John Connally, President Nixon’s Secretary of the Treasury, once remarked, to the consternation of Europe’s financial elites over America’s inflationary monetary policy, that the dollar “is our currency, but your problem.” Times have certainly changed and it now appears that the dollar has become an American problem.

In a recent pre-inauguration interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump said that the greenback’s strength – up some 25% against a broad basket of currencies since 2014 – is now “too strong,” “killing us,” and has hurt companies trying to compete overseas. A top Trump economics advisor, Anthony Scaramucci, reinforced his boss’ sentiment adding that “we must be careful of a rising dollar."

BRAHMS AND DEMOCRACY

by Antonius Aquinas

In November of 1876, one hundred and forty years ago, Johannes Brahms’ monumental First Symphony was first heard, performed in Karlsruhe, Germany.  The much anticipated work – which took Brahms over 20 years to complete – has become part of the canon of Western music. Ironically, the premiere of The Ring by Brahms’ supposed rival and fellow musical genius, Richard Wagner, was performed for the first time in the same year.

While one critic initially called Brahms’ First Symphony “Beethoven’s Tenth,” it has surpassed that unjust description and now stands on its own merit as a distinct masterpiece.  The First Symphony, the three that followed, and the rest of Brahms’ works makes him more than Beethoven’s successor, and a unique musical figure in his own right.

DONALD AND THE TWILIGHT OF THE "MAESTRO"

by Antonius Aquinas

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who was once laudably referred to as the "Maestro" for his supposed astute stewardship of U.S. monetary policy, commented last week on the nation’s current political and economic climate:

"We’re not in a stable equilibrium. I hope we can all find a way out because this too great a country to be undermined, by how should I say it, crazies."

Well, if there is anyone who knows how to "undermine" an economy, it is the "Maestro," since it was his "crazed" policies that brought about the 2008 financial crisis which ushered in the Great Recession that continues to this very day.

THE DONALD VS. KILLARY: WAR OR PEACE?

"We came, we saw, we died"

by Antonius Aquinas

Although history does not exactly repeat itself, it does provide parallels and sometimes quite ominous ones. Such is the case with the current U.S. Presidential election and the one which occurred one hundred years earlier.

The dominating question which hung over the 1916 campaign was whether the country would remain neutral in regard to the horrific slaughter which was taking place on the European battlefields in probably the greatest act of mass insanity ever recorded, World War I.

THE GOLD STANDARD: FRIEND OF THE MIDDLE CLASS

by Antonius Aquinas

It has been theoretically demonstrated and seen in general practice that a monetary system of 100% metallic money devoid of central banking checks monetary inflation, prevents a general rise in the price level, and eliminates the dreaded business cycle, while making all sorts of monetary mischief nearly impossible. A gold standard is not only economically superior to any paper money scheme, but is morally just, which is why it is hated by the politically well-connected, academics, politicians, and the rest of the Establishment.

Often not discussed, however, even by its proponents is the beneficial effect that “hard money” has for the middle class.