‘American Carnage’: 5 Real Problems In An Otherwise False Narrative

As this year melts into next, we thought we’d revisit five key problems the country faces for readers who have a keen interest in the extent to which America, while not the barren, bone-strewn wasteland imagined in Donald Trump’s inauguration speech, does have a set of rather serious issues it needs to address in 2018.

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Trump Calls U.S. Post Office ‘Dumb’ And ‘Poor’ In Angry Amazon Meltdown

Oh, and don’t forget that if you look back at 5+ years of Trump’s tweet history, you’ll discover that he’s actually a big Bezos fan – as long as Bezos is selling Trump’s book, which is “a great gift idea that’s easy to order on Amazon“…

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‘That’s The Dumbest Thing He’s Said All Year’: Trump Issues Twitter Challenge To The Weather

On Thursday evening, Donald Trump issued a challenge to one of his political rivals on Twitter.

That wouldn’t be news in and of itself since he does it all the time, but this particular Quixotic endeavor was noteworthy because the windmill at which he is tilting isn’t a human being.

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Trader: This Is Knife Catching At Its Best Or Worst – Depending On How You Wanna Look At It

“Can the economy handle fewer interest rate increases before rolling over? Does the ever-growing-indebted financial system continue to stall at increasingly lower yield levels? And if so, does that mean we are on the cusp of the next great crisis? Will the Fed have inadvertently tightened into the next slowdown?”

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