"Over time, attaining financial wealth became an absolute prerequisite for wielding geopolitical power and influence. The old military variety appears almost feeble standing next to the contemporary Financial Arms Race."
"In China the fingerpointing over who is responsible for China's economic mess has begun."
"'We should prohibit U.S. persons from buying or mining cryptocurrencies,' the California Democrat - whose largest donor is credit card processor Allied Wallet - declared."
"The California Supreme Court shot down the controversial initiative from appearing on the November ballot in a unanimous decision, writing that 'significant questions have been raised regarding the proposition's validity.'"
"Would the ACLU ever offer a 'Pro-Liberty Case for Fourth Amendment Restrictions?'"
"Roughly 15,000 Boers are ready to leave their country and begin a new life in Russia."
"Being ousted from office by special counsel would really not be so bad given the other methods that the U.S. deep state has employed against presidents who have dared to befriend Russia."
"In private conversations, investors, entrepreneurs and economists admit that with the high debt level and a trade war with the United States, the room for government maneuvering is shrinking. The degrees of pessimism vary, but many of them are bracing for a tough ride ahead. They told me to change all my savings into gold, a risk-management measure for extreme times. They worry that the trade war will hurt the tech and the venture capital industries because they operate globally."
"So long as we're going to tolerate government officials exempting themselves from the rules they inflict on the rest of us, we might just have to be happy when there's no body count."
"Officials no longer want to publicize what kind of transactions fall under the reporting requirement. They worry that making too much information public will give money launderers a road map to stay off the radar of regulators."