Texas Doctor Found Guilty For Illegally Distributing Millions Of Opioid Pills

'They're Not MAGA': Trump Remarks On Tucker Carlson And Megyn Kelly's Iran Criticism Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, President Donald Trump delivered a clear message to critics within conservative media circles Monday, asserting that ‘true’ MAGA supporters back his moves to neutralize the Iranian threat and prevent nuclear proliferation that endangers the U.S. and its allies. Dismissing pushback from Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly as out of step with America First priorities, Trump emphasized that securing the homeland against rogue regimes like Iran is non-negotiable—no matter the noise from sidelined commentators. Tucker...

The "Good News" Is Always The Same: The Stock Market Is Up... Until It Isn't Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Cloaking a fake "market" with artifice to maintain its asymmetrical distribution of wealth and income also cloaks its detachment from the real world. I often refer to the dynamics of self-correction and self-liquidation. Systems that use feedback to rebalance extremes are self-correcting: rather than accelerate as they approach a cliff, they slow down and reorganize to avoid runaway self-reinforcing feedback (i.e. positive feedback), a.k.a. run to failure. Some things are self-liquidating by...

Contrary to what the Modern Monetary Theory advocates and their Chartalist allies are claiming, the 1690 colonial Massachusetts issuance of fiat money did not create an enlightened moment in U.S. monetary history. Instead, it was a monetary bait-and-switch.