Venezuela’s coming crisis and hyper-inflation,…. ongoing currency manipulation in Russia… Goldman Sachs “cooking the books” for the Greek government

I knew about that stuff because of Paul Krugman at the NYT. Russia and Venezuela are both extractive economies and when the bottom fell out of the oil market both were in a world of hurt. Inflation does two things. It makes your extracted product more attractive as an export and it reduces your debt by allowing it to inflate away. Every economy that can do it does do it. Greece can’t do it because it’s a part of the EU and doesn’t have its own currency. It makes it really hard for them to dig out of their hole.

And I knew about the hole Greece is in, again, from reading Paul Krugman.

Clinton, Trump, Merkel, Macron, etc.

Clinton would have been miles better than Trump — I agree Trump is a buffoon— but she’s history, so I don’t care. I’m agnostic about the IQ of Merkel. She’s the leader of the free world at the moment and, like most humans, is miles better than Trump.

Macron is only seems like a socialist because in the USA we don’t actually have a left wing like they do in France. In France, he’s a centrist. My only French Facebook friend was furious when he was elected because he’s just too darn conservative for her. I only found one fringe source to corroborate that makeup thing, which means I seriously doubt it’s true. And, frankly, even if it’s true I don’t care.

Liberals seriously try to undermine freedom of speech and white-wash history

‘white-wash’ means to cover over flaws. Liberals have a tendency to try to keep America’s historical flaws from being forgotten or ignored. That is the opposite of white-washing. I don’t like that some colleges (looking at you Berkeley) have tantrums when some douchebag gets booked on campus. Either make sure nobody shows up to listen to them, or protest the hell out of them after they arrive, but let them talk. If the left wing as a whole was opposed to freedom of speech the ACLU wouldn’t have a business model.

Suicide rates have tripled since 2012.

I can find no evidence that that is true. Suicide is, indeed, on the rise but not “tripled.” Unfortunately, it is your gender and age group that seems especially hard hit. I’m not sure you can blame that on cell phones. Apparently it dropped very low in the late 90s and has risen back up to what it was in the mid 80s. Nobody knows why, but there’s a lot of research ongoing.

Tucker Carlson is a racist idiot.

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Susan Brassfield Cogan

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