Who do you think is the biggest political loser in 2016?  I would argue the biggest, political loser in modern American history is Hillary Clinton!  Hillary Clinton has always been seen as the inevitable first woman president but that no longer seems probable at all!  Also, a woman in France is literally engaged to a Robot and she plans on marrying this thing when it’s legalized!  This world is literally insane and I think things will only get more insane in 2017!

No one was shocked by the FEDs recent decision to raise interest rates to .5-.75%. The FED has raised interest rates a total sum of .5% in 10 years!  That’s not much of a move but the markets think the FED is being very hawkish right now with the dollar hitting a 14 year high!  During the campaign, Trump stressed to people how he will make America great again but really it’s an impossibility. The only way for things to turn around is if the government shrinks and the free market is allowed to prevail!  Trumps natural instincts is to fix things with government. The markets wishful thinking in regards to a Trump presidency are vastly overblown and will crash back to reality rather soon.

Donald Trump agreeing to a deal with Carrier to keep jobs in the U.S. is the crony capitalist system we have today. This is how business in America is done today and why we are very far away from any kind of free market system! Granting special deals and privilege to government favored businesses is the government picking winners and losers! The government protecting businesses from competition makes them actually less competitive and less responsible to the consumer. So we, as taxpayers, are soaked in more than one way!  Many people out there are optimistic of a Trump Presidency but this Carrier deal shows it’s more of the same.

Just after Thanksgiving, Fidel Castro died at 90 years old. Fidel first came to power in Cuba in 1959 and ruled there for over 50 years! People on the left love to praise Cuba and they loved the heck out of Fidel! But what is really the truth? Did Fidel really improve the lives of the Cuban people or did he make life much worse? What is life like today for the Cuban people? Cuba really is a good example that communism doesn’t work and socialism/communism is anything but compassionate! Capitalism and the Free Market are the best ways to help the poor and with examples like Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea, it’s amazing people like Bernie Sanders still get the support they do get.