In 2008, we saw the result of three decades of neoliberalism in the United States and Europe, what we used to call Reaganism and Thatcherism, damage and shake the world financial system. Rather than resolving the problem by repudiating neoliberalism, including its emphasis on more money for rich people and less money for workers, big tax breaks for the wealthy, the deregulation of corporations from pollution to banking, and so-called "free trade," the central banks of the world have been desperately trying to hold things together with bubblegum and bailing wire - also known as low interest rates.

Now it has reached the point where one of the largest banks in Denmark is offering negative interest rates on home mortgage loans. What that means is that if you buy a house and take out a mortgage right now with this bank, the amount that you will pay back at the end of 10 years will be less than the amount that you borrowed. The bank is paying you to take out a mortgage. While the bank is charging some fees to cover some of their costs, this is clearly an unsustainable business model, And shows us how the efforts of central banks desperately trying to avoid the world sliding back into the crisis of 2008 are failing. Batten down your hatches.

The economic winds are starting to howl.

-Thom

Epstein was hired by Bill Barr's father to teach high school girls, the same Bill Barr's father who wrote a novel about sex slavery. Epstein goes on to prosper in the sex trafficking business.

Meanwhile, Trump's close friend Epstein introduces him to Melania Knauss, and they end up married. Epstein gets arrested and Barr recuses himself because his law firm defended Epstein, then un-recuses himself after talking with Trump. Woman files a lawsuit saying that both Epstein and Trump raped her when she was 13; it's certified by a court. Following Epstein's arrest, reports come out that Barr's Justice Department now has hundreds of videos, movies and pictures of Epstein's rich and powerful male friends having sex with the girls he's been trafficking. Barr supervises the prison Epstein is put in, where he mysteriously dies.

Now cons are suggesting Bill Clinton is behind this and #ClintonBodyCount is trending with help from foreign bots.

-Thom

There's a direct link between a sociopathic killer in 1927 and the GOP's willingness to embrace a sociopathic president like Trump. That link runs through the work of Ayn Rand.

When Donald Trump was running for the GOP nomination, he told USA Today's Kirsten Powers that Ayn Rand's raped-girl-decides-she-likes-it novel, The Fountainhead, was his favorite book.

"It relates to business, beauty, life and inner emotions," he told Powers. "That book relates to ... everything."

Trump probably knew that anything by Rand would be the right answer for Republicans; the party has embraced her for decades, to the point that Paul Ryan required interns to read her books as a condition of employment.

Read more here.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Book: Space relations: A slightly gothic interplanetary tale by Donald Barr.

Article: "Jeffrey Epstein: The trail of ruined lives, misery and bankruptcy arch-swindler and paedophile left in his wake" by Marc Fisher, Jonathan O'Connell.

Article: "The 'Epstein-Barr' Problem of New York City's Dalton School" by Jerry Lambe.

Article: "As Trump Pushed Him Away, Epstein Bragged He Introduced POTUS And Melania" by Nicole Lafond.

Article: "AG Barr will recuse-oh, wait-won't recuse himself from Epstein sex trafficking case" by Kerry Eleveld.

Article: "Jeffrey Epstein" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Prince Andrew 'groped' woman in Epstein's house, court files allege" by BBC.

Article: "Trump promotes Epstein-Clintons conspiracy theory, the latest in a pattern of baseless claims spread by President" by Jeremy Diamond.

Law: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (1999) (Financial Services Modernization Act Of 1999).

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "A Danish bank is offering mortgages at a 0.5% negative interest rate - meaning it is basically paying people to borrow money" by Will Martin.

Article: "Trump blasts Fed Chairman Powell even after getting the interest rate cut the president has been demanding for months" by Bob Bryan.

Article: "Couple dead in apparent murder-suicide left notes saying they couldn't afford medical care, police say" by Marisa Iati.

Article: "Eugene Scalia, Trump's pick to head the Labor Department, scares worker advocates to death" by Irina Ivanova.

Article: "A Times Headline About Trump Stoked Anger. A Top Editor Explains." by New York Times.

Article: "Former mobster says Bill Barr made a secret visit to jail before Epstein's death: 'Something's not right there'" by David Edwards.

Article: ""I Was Told Epstein 'Belonged to Intelligence' And to Leave It Alone."" (Alexander Acosta) by Josh Marshall.

Article: "Robert Maxwell" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ghislaine Maxwell caught up in Jeffrey Epstein allegations" by BBC.

Book: Siege: Trump Under Fire by Michael Wolff.

Article: "Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair, Aborting a Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails 'Cover-Up'" by David Johnston.

Article: "Cover-up Attorney General Bill Barr strikes again" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair, Aborting a Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails 'Cover-Up'" by David Johnston.

Article: "Essay; The Patsy Prosecutor" by William Safire.

Tweet: "The #EpsteinMurder story is like a rejected high school movie script for an Intro To Film class... too many overused cliches...next thing we'll find out zombies are deceptively rapid walkers & a dying man whispers the Secret in his last breath." by Scott Walker removed. Trump must face justice now..

Article: "Hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer's ruthless strategies include bullying CEOs, suing governments and seizing their navy's ships" by Oliver Staley.

Article: "Enron scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Goldman Sachs" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Southern strategy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "ACT Research says trucking sector is in a recession" by Alan Adler.

Article: "Trump outbid J.Epstein to buy property, resold to Oligarch - who launched Elect. firm in our GRID." by joan reports.

Tweet: "Nance's Law: Coincidence Takes A lot of Planning." by Malcolm Nance.

Article: "Is Trump separating migrant children to serve global network of pedophiles?" by blm.

Article: "Apprenticeships are under attack" by International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.

Article: "The Loudest Voice" by Wikipedia.

Article: "French Revolution" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bolsheviks" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Night of the Long Knives" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trucking data shows signs of recession" by Morgan Forde.

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia

Article: "Free trade" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Margaret Thatcher" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows" - John Kenneth Galbraith (referring to "trickle down" economics).

Article: "Hamptons Trump supporters whine that their neighbors treat them like they 'have a disease'" by Brad Reed.

Article: "1 big thing: The rural America death spiral" by .

Article: "Op-Ed: White people should be more afraid of other whites than they are of people of color" by Mike Males.

Article: "West Virginia lawmaker calls out Trump for 'using Lord's name in vain' during rally" by Caleb Parke.

Article: "Evangelicals slowly turning against Trump... for the most pathetic reason imaginable." by DetlefK. "A lying, stealing philanderer who has never shown an ounce of decency, whose policies hurt the least among us, who stole from his own charity, who mocks and insults and attacks, who cannot even quote the Bible properly."

Article: "With New 'Imposed Contract,' Trump's EPA Tries to Neuter Worker Rights" by Andrea Germanos.

Article: "These USDA employees face a stark choice: Move to Kansas City or be fired" by Joe Davidson.

Article: "EPA Won't Ban Pesticide Linked to Harm in Children" by WebMD.

Article: "EPA won't approve warning labels for Roundup chemical" by Adam Beam.

Book: Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World by David Vine.

Article: "The 'white replacement theory' motivates alt-right killers the world over" by Rosa Schwartzburg.

Article: "Historian revises estimate of Civil War dead" by Rachel Coker.

Article: "Obama unveils rural Internet access program, dings constantly connected teens" by Sarah Wheaton.

Article: "Historian revises estimate of Civil War dead" by Rachel Coker.

Article: "President Trump Nominates Acting EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler, a Former Coal Lobbyist, to Lead Agency" by Jennifer A. Dlouhy.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "Jeffrey Epstein had 'vast trove of lewd' photos of girls: Prosecutors" by Dan Mangan, Kevin Breuninger.

Article: "Trump To Israel: Ban Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib For Their Support Of BDS" by Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman.

Article: "U.S. Significantly Weakens Endangered Species Act" by Lisa Friedman.

Hour Three: How the Trump Administration is Screwing Working People Yet Again
- Lisa Stifler, Senior Policy Counsel - Center for Responsible Lending

Article: "Consumer 'Protector' Is Ready To Make It Easier For Debt Collectors To Harass You" by Zach Carter.

Article: "Fair Debt Collection Practices Act", 1977 by Wikipedia.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Article: "Foreign investment in United States real estate" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How much of America do foreigners really own?" by Joseph Adinolfi.

Heart Based Medicine
- Dr. Jan Bonhoeffer, M.D. & Professor (pediatrics)-University Children's Hospital, Basel, Switzerland / Founder - Heart Based Medicine Foundation
- Andrea Gardner, Communications Specialist/Author/Reiki Master.

Event: San Francisco, Sept. 12-14: Heart Based Medicine 2019 Summit.

Article: "What are the leading causes of death in the US?" by Hannah Nichols.

Article: "Sanders Demands Drug and Insurance Industries Explain the Hundreds of Millions They Seem Willing to Spend to Defeat Medicare for All" by Jon Queally.

Article: "Trump slashing Obamacare advertising by 90%" by Tami Luhby.

Video: Bill de Blasio wants to 'tax the hell' out of the rich.

Site: Patriotic Millionaires.

Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

Justin Ralls Artistic Co-Director, (w/Nicholas Meyer) - Opera Theater Oregon will be here to talk about This Land Sings featuring...Thom Hartmann

Plus, (former) Gov. Don Siegelman (D-AL), the last Democratic Governor of Alabama (1999 to 2003) will discuss the strange case of Jeffrey Epstein and other issues

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