End of American Empire

Created
Thu, 25/09/2025 - 07:29
Stumbled across this recently:  China aims to become custodian of foreign sovereign gold reserves to strengthen its standing in the global bullion market, according to people familiar with the matter. The People’s Bank of China is using the Shanghai Gold Exchange to court central banks in friendly countries to buy bullion and store it within […]
Created
Tue, 26/08/2025 - 12:31
The US government is to take a 15% cut of Nvidia and AMD chip sale profits to China. There are also discussion of taking a 10% stock share in Intel. Meanwhile the Pentagon has taken a hundred million dollar stake in a rare earth miner, and guaranteed minimum prices. As Albert Pinto notes, this isn’t […]
Created
Wed, 20/08/2025 - 14:22
Saw this recently, from the University of Chicago: And it begins. No music history and theory, comp lit, classics, and on and on. pic.twitter.com/e2JxrCbm1k — Dialectical Zach-Zack Loeffler (@thezachloeffler) August 12, 2025 The commentary is a bit of an exaggeration. But not too much. Now if this was just one data point, it wouldn’t matter, […]
Created
Tue, 15/07/2025 - 17:15
So, the Supremes have decided, without even bothering to write an opinion, that the Department of Education can be massively reduced without Congressional approval: The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Trump administration may fire more than half of the Department of Education’s workforce — mass terminations that, in Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s words, […]