Robert N comments

More insanity. Admission of the total misguidedness of their policies over the last decades.

Not a particularly inspiring General. Bit Milley Vanilley to watch. He is still fretting about the morals of his army and doing little or nothing to reassure the world that America is back (!!??).

JL

The Fed is to some extent forced to print money if the government continues with huge deficits. Only way to fund the deficit is to print the money and buy the bonds. Not enough private demand for treasuries when the Fed is artificially manipulating the interest rates to keep debt service cost low. One reason why their bluster about raising rates can only go so far - maybe 4%? Above that the US budget becomes unsustainable, with debt service eating something like 30% of tax revenues.

So even if the Fed doesn't take its marching orders from the WH (a big if, but....) they are still forced to print.

and money printing = inflation = rising prices.....

This article is just ridiculous. Who is even asking this question?

Less Guinness and less sake for the Russians. Soon they will be begging for peace.

He is a big star in a big movie. and it is set in Japan. Seems newsworthy to me, at least by the standards of modern media.

BP has done some good stuff (including AJ)....

Surprised he hasn't offered to sell nukes to Iran.

I was often left to my own devices at home or elsewhere growing up.

Meh. So over this continued telling us people are sick.

Sounds like a chain. No mention of who the chef(s) is/are?

They should call whatever they finally cobble together the Zero mk2. That is what will likely result from this "alliance".

Why they don't have one of those celeb labels

LoBen? BenLo? Jaffleck. C'mon media!!

Theatre. won't make a bit of difference.

Reckless:

India is a dictatorship? South Africa is a dictatorship? And lots of others I can't be bothered to list.

Putin may suck, but this wholehearted admiration for some of the US allies (poor Ukraine?) and for the way Ol' Joe and his minions have tried to deal with Putin's aggression is not very admirable either.

Things can only get....... worse?

Vincent was his greatest, but AP also a masterpiece.

We have become so fixated on Covid when it is almost inevitable that it will behave like any other endemic virus (flu?) and mutate and throw up new variants that will make old vaccines and all the other silly "safety measures" essentially redundant. We never used to go crazy like this when we had previous spikes in flu or whatever.

Sure it was an unknown but now we know mortality and how to treat it, surely time to stop this fixation on cases etc.

Another stupid idea to get headlines but that will achieve nothing.

And they have to keep on printing and managing interest rates at almost zero as otherwise the whole government budget goes down the chute.

Monetise the debt and inflate the currency - only way out.

Why the fixation on masks and the other measures that didn't work before? Increased infections with minimal serious cases is a bit of a nothing really.

WW3 on the horizon. Where's Maverick when you need him?

Surely we are over this nonsense by now.

Wow. Seems like the current US Government has money to burn. While still running a deficit in the trillions.....

As usual, it's some nut job right winger who is the cause of all of the bad outcomes.

Despite the recent plague. That killed untold millions around the world.

Seems odd given the still pretty heavy restrictions Japan is imposing on tourists.

Musk has tried to play them all along, but still might get his fingers burned.

But i suppose he still has money to burn until Tesla stock really starts to tank.

These clowns are still doing the elbow bump? These people aren't serious.

All the countries sending money to Ukraine and no real idea of how it is being used. And just prolongs the misery for Ukrainians. Putin wont go away until he achieves his objectives. Maybe better to try and understand what those are instead of continued conflict?

BigYen

Yes wearing a mask is not too onerous, but all the evidence by now would seem to indicate that they dont really work. Like so many of the other measures we implemented over the last 2 years and more.

If we dont question the ongoing restrictions they will never go away.