Which itself wouldn't have happened had Congress done its job and impeached him the second time. (View Post)

That's a false logic to assume that 'being brilliant' should naturally lead to becoming a billionaire. It doesn't. Apart from anything else, there are many ways to interpret brilliance and only a few… (View Post)

The optics of formally abandoning Five Eyes are so bad for the non-US members that they won't. Whatever Trump and Gabbard do, it'll probably roll on because of that. But it's likely to become functio… (View Post)

This has more than an element of never hating your enemies because it affects your judgement. Henry Ford didn't invent the car or the production line either. He actually wasn't that great a CEO eithe… (View Post)

And the Fed does a lot more than set the US base rate(s). American banking failures are still a feature of their system now (5 went bust last year, with combined assets of over half a trillion), but … (View Post)