Judging by the mainstream media, the most pressing problems facing capitalism are 1) income inequality, the basis of Thomas Piketty’s bestseller Capital in the Twenty First Century, and 2) the failure of laissez-faire markets to regulate their excesses, a common critique

Whether Mnuchin is a “plant” inserted to steer Trump’s ship in favor of globalism or not, he is doing the right thing by declaiming against the two government mortgage giants.

McCarthyism Is Breaking Out All Over Paul Craig Roberts Seasoned journalist, White House official, and historian Pat Buchanan has responded to the Washington Post’s fake news about the independent journalists on the 200 List being Russian agents by reminding us that the US government has always been a major disseminator of fake news. http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2016/12/01/fake-news-war-party-lies/ No…

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