Category: US Politics

The only way to save the Republican Party in November is to vote Democrat

Republicans hoping to be mummified in office like Mitch McConnell should make other plans.

Bonds Explained: A Plain-English Primer for Serious Readers

A plain-English primer on the yield curve, buybacks, term premium, and fiscal dominance, with the Trump administration as the running negative example on the eve of the midterms.

Trump’s Doomsday Machine, Part II: The Negative Arbitrage

In ten days in August 2026 the 30 year Treasury hit its 2007 high, Treasury paid 85.6 billion dollars of interest in one day, and Bessent doubled the buyback. This is the mechanism.

Trump and Concentrated Wealth, a Doomsday Machine for Organized Labor and the American Middle Class

A wealth pump engineered in public transfers labor’s savings to the top through asset appreciation, pension buyouts, private credit, life insurer capture, and state guaranty funds. The remedy is antimonopoly plus a wealth tax.

The Ruins: A Short Story

The Ruins short story by Scott Ortkiese. Friday, September 24, 2027, in the hours after the American operating layer has gone dark. A seventy year old writer in Houston keeps a Piketty ledger for his granddaughter in Boulder.

Hey Governor Abbott, Don’t Fall for Musk’s Terafab Bamboozling of Texans: Here’s the real story, and it ain’t that pretty at all unless you’re part of the con

SpaceX’s own S-1 says Terafab has no binding commitments, no financial terms, and no obligation on Tesla or Intel to remain, before the Grimes County school abatements are countersigned.

Who’s Afraid of Big, Bad Sayed?

AIPAC and its allies spent more than $60 million calling Abdul El-Sayed dangerous. Here is the complete file that money produced, and why Michigan rejected it.

Генерал «Предай-США» (Betray-U.S.), он же Дэвид Петреус, идеально иллюстрирует оксюморон: военная разведка

Драгоценные жизненные соки и доходность портфеля: беспощадная оценка «Доктора Стрейнджлава прямых инвестиций», с подсчётом трупов

General Betray-Us, aka David Petraeus, Perfectly Illustrates the Oxymoron: Military Intelligence

David Petraeus exchanged classified war plans for sex, then became a KKR partner selling Ukraine, Palestine and LNG as investment themes.

A Bill of Indictment for Murder and Genocide Against the American Military and Trump, as its Commander and Chief

Operation Southern Spear killed 221 people at sea without trials, while strikes on Minab school killed 120 children and 26 teachers.