More money, more war, more power

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Inflation is a deliberate policy designed to shrink the burden of US debt...by shrinking the dollar, so that the feds can spend more of them. The post More money, more war, more…

Net interest on public debt grew by 11%, or $114 billion, to a total of $1.1 trillion in fiscal year 2026, according to a report published yesterday by the Congressional Budget Office. The chart above shows government spending consistently larger than tax revenues going back 50 years.

This is our favorite season in Paris. Yesterday, we walked up the Blvd. Raspail, a light drizzle on our face…and the large leaves of the plane trees wet and slippery beneath our feet.

By four o’clock in the afternoon, it was already sinking into gentle darkness. But the shops were lit up, beckoning to passers-by. It was like an impressionist painting, with the bright lights reflected on rain-slick streets.

For many years we’ve owned a bookshop on the Blvd. Raspail, specializing in ancient history and classical, Greek, and Roman literature. The windows there, too, were well lit…showing the latest oeuvres, highlighted by a special, illustrated edition of Ulysses.

“Paris doesn’t seem to be on fire,” we said to our companion at a small café, just to open the conversation.

“No, it’s mostly over at the Place de la Republique and not that impressive.”

Yes, this is where it gets interesting. We draw upon the Washington Post for intel:

Were his eyes taped shut last week? Was his TV turned off? Didn’t he get the news? The voters want less inflation and less war…not more. But here is the august senator from the Bayou State eager to get together with the Democrats to defy the public by going even further in the direction ‘The People’ have just declared they don’t want to go.

The two problems that stuck in voters’ craws were obvious…and, apparently, easy to fix — inflation and war. The attack on Iran could have been called off. POTUS could have proclaimed victory and moved on.

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