The National Security Archive, working with our partners at ProQuest, is publishing a new compilation of documents highlighting the most important national security issues faced by the Carter administration. The collection is 2,557 documents – totaling 8,904 pages – and includes all currently declassified daily memoranda from the secretary of state (or acting secretary) and the national security advisor that were used to brief the president…
Fed Hikes Rates By the Most in 28 Years, Signals Volcker-Era Is Back…
The Fed hiked rates by a stunning (but expected) 75bps – the biggest hike since 1994. Esther George dissented (preferring 50bps). Fed expresses that is “strongly committed” to fighting inflation…
Fed Hopes Inflation Moderates as Interest Rate Hikes Are Triggered…
Whenever we discuss inflation, it is absolutely critical for people to understand that inflation itself is the measure of the percentage increase in a price over a period of time…
Philadelphia Media Blame Grocery Store Shortages on “The Winter of Severe Illness and Death”, Omicron…
The issues will fluctuate region by region and chain by chain as we enter the destabilization phase. In this phase the impacts in some operators will be small, and in others will be more noticeable. The difference will be the overall operational excellence in the proprietary business system they operate…
Consumer Inflation Reaches 7 Percent in December, Highest Rate in Forty Years and Still Climbing…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the December inflation data today [DATA HERE] for December. Readers on these pages are not surprised to discover that inflation in the U.S. economy has now reached a forty year high at 7 percent…
Donald Trump and the Mythmakers…
For the past 40-odd years, two narratives have guided American Middle East policy. Both were invented by the Carter administration. One relates to Iran. One relates to Israel. Both narratives reject reality as the basis for foreign policy decision-making in favor of delusion. Over the past two months, President Donald Trump has rejected and disavowed […]
Robert Mugabe Is Ousted, 37 Years After Jimmy Carter Put Him in Power…
Every Despot has their day, and today seems to be Robert Mugabe’s day. The military has taken control in Zimbabwe and says it’s taken custody of President Mugabe, and his wife who he recently named as VP. The despotic Mugabe has in power since 1980. The Military has emphasized that it did not stage a […]
Former President Jimmy Carter Offers to Meet with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un…
Former President Jimmy Carter – “I know what North Korea Wants”…
NYT Chides Obama Ever So Gently for Betraying His Own Words…
The editorial board of The New York Times published a piece Monday under the headline, “The Cost of Barack Obama’s Speech.” The piece discusses the $400,000 price tag on the former president’s scheduled speaking engagement on Wall Street. Beginning with a quote by Obama himself on how fundraising disconnected him from the people he began […]