Sometimes, to look forward it helps to look backwards. From Jeffrey A. Tucker at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
Trying to gain a greater understanding of what is happening in the United States today, history provides some guidance.
We can skip most of the presidencies of the 20th century for comparison.
Ronald Reagan was more in the mold that Donald Trump is breaking.
Richard Nixon was popular but was hamstrung by the Vietnam War and the dollar crisis.
FDR was popular but his sweeping victory in 1936 reflected economic panic. While he had the House and Senate, he faced a hard barrier with the Supreme Court that struck down his beloved legislation.
Woodrow Wilson won in 1912 only because the opposition was split.
There is a greater prospect of fundamental change with the second Trump term than in any living memory.
For an illuminating comparison, let’s return to the year 1824. Andrew Jackson ran for president and won a plurality of the popular and electoral votes. But he did not get the majority. The election was thrown to the House of Representatives, which produced a surprising result: John Quincy Adams became president thanks to the support of Henry Clay who was promised the position of Secretary of State.
The last one to pay off the debt and arch nemesis of the bankers?
Awww… yea.
Should be on the $20 to stay and amazing the bankers ever allowed it, acknowledging a formidable opponent?
Das Teevee has the children who survived in Amazon for 40 days, didn’t want to be found due to abusive home!
Survival uber alles.
This just in from J-Dilla:
Sunbeams (LP Version Instrumental)