Samuel Culper

The National Intelligence Bulletin is a weekly look at national security, domestic systems disruption, the risk of failing critical infrastructure, and threats to social, political, economic, and financial stability in the United States.…

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Good morning. Here's your Early Warning for 19 July 2018. (All times Eastern.) White House The President is scheduled to receive his intelligence briefing, meet with Secretary Mattis and then have lunch with Secretary…

Good morning. Here's your Early Warning for 18 July 2018. (All times Eastern.) White House The President will hold a cabinet meeting this morning, and has no other publicly scheduled events today. State Department…

Good morning. Here's your Early Warning for 17 July 2018. (All times Eastern.) White House The President is scheduled to meet with members of Congress in a closed-door session this afternoon. There are no other public events…

The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics  Salena Zito and Brad Todd 320 ppg., Crown Forum (May 2018). $26.00 Last month, I finally finished reading The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition…

One of my favorite mindless tasks after posting my thoughts about the coming recession and financial crisis (x2) is reading the mindless responses that go something like this: "The Trump economy is so good that unemployment is the lowest in…

I read an interesting article yesterday entitled "Survival of the Richest". The author (Douglas Rushkoff) is a futurist/technologist who was recently invited to give a keynote speech for some investment bankers. The bankers paid him…

There's no shortage of "collapsitarian" thought and literature out there. Make no mistake, I do believe that the United States will undergo a period of collapse, but as I've written previously, I don't actually like that word: it's so…

This week, Bloomberg ran a pretty good article on the "four big risks" after the 10 year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. Yes, I think there's a significant chance that we have another 2008-esque meltdown on our…