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“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” – Will RogersLoading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The American government is running a $2 trillion annual deficit. Perfunctory efforts at budget cutting, whether by DOGE...
Consistent with two of TLR’s themes over the past 7 years, beginning with April 2019’s “Red Storm Rising” and June 2019’s “What is Money” and including the recent “What ‘America First’ Means to Allies and Enemies” and “Will the Dollar Surrender its Reserve Currency Crown?,”...
“It’s about ‘Fortress America’…, and much more.” – The Lonely RealistLoading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Hypothesis: Both Donald Trump and Xi Jinping understand that the Thucydides Trap would represent a disastrous outcome for each country. President Trump appreciates that a Thucydides outcome...
“Because Strategy, Inc. is a significant investor in Bitcoin, Bitcoin’s price is being adversely affected by Strategy, Inc.’s price.” – The Lonely RealistLoading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... TLR wrote in December 2021 about “Bitcon,” using a label intended to highlight what at...
“America’s treasury is bankrupt.” – The Lonely RealistLoading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… As Herb Stein, Chairman of the Counsel of Economic Advisers under Presidents Nixon and Ford, famously said, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop” – Stein’s Law. America’s
“Although capital historically has dominated labor in America, labor began reasserting itself in the 21st Century when the Trump Administration encouraged onshoring and erected tariff barriers, a trend that was accelerated by COVID and pro-labor Biden Administration policies.” – The Lonely RealistLoading the Elevenlabs Text
“Despite a focus on cycles, TLR did not foresee the return of antisemitism.” – The Lonely RealistLoading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The very first TLR in February 2019 asked “Are we Experiencing a 1937 Redux?” Yes, we were are. The 2010s began
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