Neither candidate for the nation’s highest office has offered any hint of understanding the problem, let alone doing anything about it

“To the contrary, each aims to make it worse with some combination of tax cuts and spending increases…

“In the broadest and simplest analysis... a nation should seek peace and prosperity. Then, citizens are able to pursue happiness however they choose. But to have peace and prosperity, the feds have to eschew war and inflation. Instead, America’s elites — the people who control the government — are choosing bombs, boondoggles and B.S. on a scale never before seen in the history of man.”

—Bill Bonner