The Arsonists Keep Warning Us About the Fire

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Every January, a consulting firm called the Eurasia Group releases its annual “Top Risks” report—required reading in corporate boardrooms.

That’s because the firm’s founder, Ian Bremmer, is a CNN and MSNBC regular. His chairman, Cliff Kupchan, is a former Clinton State Department official. They’re about as establishment (i.e. leftist) as it gets.

This year’s report warns of a looming crisis in America: breakdown of trust, institutional decay, the end of predictability.

But it’s absurd for these guys— both of whom have been part of the Washington establishment for decades— to suddenly sound the alarm about America’s problems. They were complicit in burning the place down.

Bremmer is the founding chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk.

For years, his firm advised Fortune 500 companies into ridiculous DEI initiatives and the “stakeholder capitalism” agenda that the Davos crowd championed.

Eurasia Group’s clients included Goldman Sachs, Citi, and Bank of America—the same firms that spent the last decade pushing ESG mandates and hiring quotas.

With this guidance, firms like Goldman refused to take companies public unless they had “diverse” board members. Citi and BofA each committed over a billion dollars of their shareholders’ money to “equity” initiatives.

Corporate America spent a decade prioritizing progressive causes over competence—and Eurasia Group was one of the top cheerleaders of the movement.

In 2018, Bremmer even wrote a book called “Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism”—explaining how globalism left workers behind. The political class ignored them, and voter  backlash was inevitable. His proposed solution? More of the same globalist Davos playbook that caused the problem.

Then in 2021, he published an article with the headline, “Bring on the Vaccine Mandate!” Yes, he actually included the exclamation mark.

So, forgive me if I can’t take Bremmer seriously when he laments the decline of America. This is someone who spent years advocating for exactly the kind of top-down, elite-knows-best policies that eroded public trust in the first place.

He understands that America is burning— because people like him helped light the fire.

This reminds me a lot of Janet Yellen’s sudden concern about the US government’s finances.

We talked about this a bit already, but I’m afraid I understated Yellen’s role.

Earlier this month, the former Fed Chair and Treasury Secretary warned that US finances are in worse shape than most third-world countries.

Yet if there is one single person who is MOST responsible for the dire state of US finances, it is Janet Yellen.

Yellen spent most of the past THREE DECADES in the most senior, most powerful economic policy roles that one could achieve.

She was a Federal Reserve Bank President. A member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Vice Chair of the Fed. Chair of the  Fed. Head of the Council of Economic Advisors. The United States Secretary of the Treasury.

There is literally NO ONE in modern history who has spent more time at the helm of American economic policy than Janet Yellen. Her fingerprints are on everything.

And suddenly she’s sounding the alarm?

When she served as Fed Chair from 2014 to 2018, she kept interest rates near zero—enabling the cheap borrowing that fueled the government’s debt binge.

When she served as Treasury Secretary from 2021 to 2025, the national debt exploded from $27.8 trillion to over $36 trillion. That’s more than $8 trillion in new debt on her watch.

She even fumbled the ball when it came to debt issuance; under Yellen, the Treasury Department issued predominantly short-term debt rather than long-term debt.

Interest rates were at record lows; she had the opportunity to lock-in those record low borrowing costs for 10, 20, and 30 years. Instead she kept right on issuing ultra-short term debt.

That decision alone will cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions in additional interest costs as those Treasury notes now have to be refinanced at higher rates.

She has now been out of office for precisely twelve months. And suddenly she’s warning about fiscal crises and America’s unsustainable debt.

Is she honestly trying to pretend that America’s finances were just fine until January 20, 2025? That all of these gargantuan problems just suddenly appeared over the last twelve months?

It’s completely ludicrous. Yet we see this pattern everywhere—at the highest levels of government, at Davos advising corporations, and of course in the media.

Jake Tapper recently wrote a bestselling book exposing the government cover-up of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.

Tapper was part of the cover-up!!! Yet he points the fingers at others who didn’t tell the truth.

And as we speak, some of the worst scum of the earth are in Davos at the World Economic Forum— lamenting the sorry state of the world which they helped to forge.

It’s like the arsonists are screaming “fire” in a crowded theater.

How does this possibly get resolved? I’m really not sure.

One would hope that voters would wake up and stop sending illiterate criminals to represent them in Congress… or stop electing used car salesmen like Gavin Newsom to wreck their states.

And yet voters get their news from people like Tapper. Politicians get funded by Goldman, Citi, and Bank of America—the same banks that take their marching orders from WEF advisors.

The Treasury and Fed are run by people like Yellen—who rotate between government and collecting millions from Wall Street in “speaking fees.”

Not to mention the guys who destroy their cities and states import illegal voters and bribe them with taxpayer funds— then denounce anyone who uncovers the fraud as “racist”.

So how likely is it that American democracy self-corrects this dumpster fire before there’s a major debt crisis?

I don’t know. There are so many permutations and unknowns… plus plenty of trend to be optimistic about. But it certainly helps to have a Plan B.

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