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Tanks a Lot!

The Bilateral Foreign Deal
Well, well, well. Precisely as I predicted (which was a ridiculously easy prediction), Bessent has reported Nothing But Good News from his weekend tete-a-tete with China. Seriously, what else is going to say? That there’s no way in hell he’d ever want to cut a deal with these scoundrels? Of course not. It’s all going to be peaches and cream. Thus:

The Feds Own the West
It is truly remarkable how little land in the western U.S. is privately owned, even these days.


