[The Urban Sombrero]

All informed about it all are you? With which of the appointees are you most familiar? And given the past 8 year long state of US freefall, what about them gives you such concern?

Unless one believes that billionaires have managed to escape the "steeped in sin at birth," you, TRT, ought to be cognizant here. The United States is not in a free fall. That is hyperbole.

I am wary of Exxon-Mobil's CEO, who orchestrated exploitative land grabs in far off lands, and who sits in board rooms with Putin and friends talking oil prices and revenues and "human capital" as pawns in a great game of real world chess. That's one.

However, "cause for concern" does not mean, in my view, automatic attribution of failure. It means be alert and watching, with a healthy skepticism.