CONK!
Yesterday evening President Trump dropped a bombshell announcement during his press conference with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Wall Street article headline says it all, “Trump Campaigned on Ending Foreign Entanglements. Now He Wants to Own Gaza.” The US helped Israel level Gaza and now Trump wants the US to own it and rebuild it. And, Trump wants Palestinians “relocated” to other Middle Eastern lands. This would confirm what critics have been asserting, namely, that “ethnic cleansing” is the goal of the Netanyahu regime.
How many Trump voters support this egregious expansion of America, which will require US troops on the ground in Gaza? Trump hinted US troops will be deployed in Gaza to serve as a security force. In other words, the Yanks are coming to the Middle East. Big Time.
Trump’s foreign policy is interventionism on steroids…an American Lebensraum.
On another front, Trump and Netanyahu may have decided that they will soon bomb Iran’s nuclear program. Will a preemptive strike on Iran set the Middle East on fire. Will Russia and/or China intervene on behalf of Iran? Will the BRICS nations dump the US dollar?
Trump and Bibi are playing a dangerous geopolitical gambit. Will the American people just say no to Trump’s reckless foreign policy? Time will tell.
MAGA is MAFGB.
Trump wants a US sovereign wealth fund.
The WSJ on “dumbest trade war.”
Tom DiLorenzo on Trump’s hero, President McKinley.
Rothbard’s monograph on the why the dollar should be as good as gold.
One of the best essays ever published in the WSJ by Greg Ip. Ip’s essay on risk and insurance explains why we have a huge welfare state. Risk has been socialized in America.
Tom Woods interview Tom DiLorenzo about the Axis of Evil.
Tom DiLorenzo’z pamphlet, Axis of Evil, is now available at the Mises Institute.
Order a free copy of Rothbard’s money and banking classic monograph. Or, you can read it online here.
My December 10 talk on medical care.
Bob Murphy interviews Dr. Keith Smith of the Surgery Center of OK.
Latest podcast on healthcare with host Johnathan Westover; Incentivizing wellness podcast with Bernadette Pajer; the Human Action podcast with Bob Murphy on my American journey; Joseph Cotto and I discuss Argentina and the US, and the Human podcast with Bob Murphy on healthcare; Robert Scott Bell and I discuss healthcare on the second hour of his podcast.
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Murray Sabrin, PhD, is emeritus professor of finance, Ramapo College of New Jersey. Dr. Sabrin is considered a “public intellectual” for writing about the economy in scholarly and popular publications. His book, The Finance of Health Care: Wellness and Innovative Approaches to Employee Medical Insurance (Business Expert Press, Oct. 24, 2022), and his other BEP publication, Navigating the Boom/Bust Cycle: An Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide (October 2021), provides decision makers with tools needed to help manage their businesses during the business cycle. Sabrin’s autobiography, From Immigrant to Public Intellectual: An American Story, was published in November, 2022.
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