{"id":356791,"date":"2018-04-14T21:19:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T20:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-deep-state-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-04-14T21:19:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T20:19:58","slug":"the-deep-state-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-deep-state-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deep State &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we have missed something: Like the possibility that the canyons of Wall Street are actually located on another planet several light years from earth!<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, how can you explain the equipoise of a stock market sitting at the tippy-top of a nine-year bubble expansion and confronted with the potential outbreak of World War Three?<\/p>\n<p>Folks, like some alien abductors, the Deep State has taken the Donald hostage, and with ball-and-chain finality. Whatever pre-election predilection he had to challenge the Warfare State has apparently been completely liquidated.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s early AM tweet today, in fact, embodies the words of a man who had more than a few screws loose when he took the oath, but under the relentless pounding of the Imperial City\u2019s investigators, partisans, apparatchiks and lynch-mob media has now gone stark raving mad. To wit:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>\u201c\u2026.Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and \u201csmart!\u201d You shouldn\u2019t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, maybe Wall Street has figured out that the Donald is more bluster than bite. Yet when you consider the broader context and what the Russian side is now saying, it is just plain idiotic to own the S&amp;P 500 at <b><i>24X<\/i><\/b>. After all, earnings that have been going nowhere for the past three years (earnings per share have inched-up from <b>$106<\/b> in September 2014 to <b><i>$109<\/i><\/b> in December 2017), and now could be ambushed by a hot war accident in Syria that would rapidly escalate.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"amazon-element-wrapper-custom align-right\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-med-image\"><span class=\"amazon-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trumped-Nation-Brink-Ruin-Bring\/dp\/1621291847?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=1621291847\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/518Ib4b7XwL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"amazon-image amazon-image-medium\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-title\"><span class=\"appip-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trumped-Nation-Brink-Ruin-Bring\/dp\/1621291847?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=1621291847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Trumped! A Nation on t&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-author\">David A. Stockman<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-label label-lowest-used\">Best Price: <\/span>$3.04<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-label label-formatted-price\">Buy New <\/span>$32.40<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-disclaimer-new\"><span style=\"display:block;color:#888;font-size: .80em; padding: 0 0 3px 0;\">(as of 03:30 EDT &#8211; <span style=\"cursor:pointer;\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on Amazon.com at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-button\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?AssociateTag=lrc18-20&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;ASIN.1=1621291847&amp;Quantity.1=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/amazon-ad-link-lr\/img\/buy-from-tan.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, did the robo-machines and boys and girls down in the casino not ponder the meaning of this&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/04\/david-stockman\/the-deep-state-closes-in-on-the-donald-part-1\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps we have missed something: Like the possibility that the canyons of Wall Street are actually located on another planet several light years from earth! Otherwise, how can you explain the equipoise of a stock market sitting at the tippy-top of a nine-year bubble expansion and confronted with the potential outbreak of World War Three? 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