THE GOLDEN AGE:
Tariffs. Trump continues to push his net tariff income of trillions when the net collection after rebating Big Corporations is $61 Billion. The COST to American’s who picked up 90% of the Tax – hundreds of BILLIONS. The accounting for the Tariffs is placed within four different federal agencies guaranteeing that they don’t interact and can easily manipulate the numbers:
- US Customs and Border Protection collects the tariffs at ports. Commissioner, Rodney Scott. Workforce – 67,000.
- The Office of US Trade Representatives develops overall trade and policies. Ambassador, Jamison Greer. Workforce – 240.
- The US International Trade Commission oversees the plot and takes trade injury complaints. Chairman, Brett Doyle. Workforce – 1200
- The International Trade Administration handles enforcement. Under Secretary, William Kimmitt. Workforce – 2200
The Overseer for these four agencies is Howard Lutnick as Commerce Director – and Trump Handler. Lutnick was instrumental in advising Trump on his Cabinet picks including Scott Bessent from the Soros Fund Management. But it was Larry Kudlow, Bannon and Roger Stone who told Trump to nominate Scott Bessent.
Larry Kudlow: With barely a degree in history, Kudlow’s first job was at the Federal Reserve as a financial analyst. He then joined the Reagan Administration as a financial analyst in the Office of Management and Budget. Kudlow was born and raised Jewish and converted to Roman Catholicism in late 1990 as he entered rehab for cocaine and alcohol addiction. His Net Worth is estimated to be in the range of $2 million to $80 million…
Steve Bannon: Self proclaimed Zionist is the brawn behind finding a means of a Trump 3rd term in direct conflict with the US Constitution. Several ideas have been verbalized, but none are legal. He has also been a prominent voice in the anti-immigration movement. Demographically, 73% of ICE deportations are not criminals, they are men ages 15 to 45, no criminal record, place of origin – Mexico and Central America. Of those with a criminal record, 93% were convicted of a nonviolent misdemeanor, such as a traffic incident.
The question remains – Why would Bannon, Kudlow and Stone encourage Trump to appoint a George Soros protégé to Secretary of The Treasury? Bessent was at Soros side when they broke the Bank of England and hailed it as a Victory!
Peter Navarro plays a role in Trump’s trade policies and the Golden Age hype. Navarro is responsible for the fringe belief that canceling trade with countries which produce a US Trade Deficit. A statement that is righteously mocked on social media as devoid of intellect. But Trump has the economic acumen of a toad and continues to parrot the claim that canceling all trade with 100 countries contributing to the US Trade Deficit would save America $1.5 Trillion…
- Trade deficit for 2025 was $901.5 Billion including goods AND services (Personally opposed to including services). The services surplus was $340 Billion meaning the Goods Deficit was actually – $1.24 Trillion. Translating to – Manufacturing.
- The concept of ‘trade’ is to import what you don’t have, what you don’t manufacture, and what isn’t available internally. Cancelling those imports without having another source in place is economic death.
While Trump’s personal choice for the Fed Chairman was Warsh, he now acts as though the rate hike effected by Warsh is anti-Trump. Gaslighting comes to mind. Warsh is Jewish, a lawyer, and incompetent to serve in this position – but that would pertain to 100% of Trump’s picks via his Advisors.
The claim is that Warsh raised the reserve rate due to ‘stubborn inflation’. IF Trump wasn’t aggrandizing the Golden Age, IF Trump had released truthful employment numbers, IF Bessent hadn’t forced Japan into spiraling interest rates which triggered T-Bill selloffs and a hyper interest Bond Market, IF Bessent, in all his incompetence didn’t buy back said T-Bills with money the Treasury had to borrow – we still wouldn’t have a Golden Age – maybe more like a Pig-Iron Age.
But Trump’s narcissistic Ego is yugely larger than his love of America.
Golden Age: The concept originally comes from ancient Greek and Roman mythology, where poets described a time of ultimate innocence and peace before human society declined. Hesiod is considered the first to coin the phrases and adoption of metals to describe different histories of civilizations. He is though to have been alive during the time of Homer 650 BC. The oldest manuscript of his work Theogony is dated from the 13th or 14th century AD.
The concept was further refined by Ovid who lived between 43 BC and 17 AD, in his Metamorphoses, which spans the history of the world from its creation to Caesar. He assigned four “metal ages” (golden, silver, bronze, and iron).