What The CIA Has Concluded July 16, 2025 MARKET ANALYSIS James Scurlock Tuesday: Ignore the misdirection about “expectations” this morning. Inflation is accelerating while economic growth is decelerating and the dollar is falling. These are not unrelated phenomena and they add up to stagflation on steroids. The end. CIA SECRETS REVEALED Have you seen Tim Weiner’s new book, The Mission? (Click “Read Sample” below the cover for the prologue.) The New York Times says it can be a bit dense. But the passage Rachel Maddow read Monday night is anything but: For CIA veterans, what truly shocked their conscience was Trump‘s cold betrayal of Ukraine and his open embrace of Russia. For a decade, American spies, politicians, citizens, and journalists had wondered aloud about the president’s affinity for Putin. Was Trump really his useful idiot? Could the Russians have something on him? Was it conceivable that he had been recruited? Or had he recruited himself? Was it simply that he liked Putin because he wanted to be like Putin – an autocrat with absolute power? It had been a mystery. But now the answer was apparent, as clear as a bolt of lightning. Trump wasn’t Putin’s agent. He was his ally. The president of the United States had gone over to the other side. Today’s Indivisible call is at 3pm Concord, Massachusetts time, where just over 250 years ago American colonists took the first action toward forming what is now the world’s oldest democracy. Now being rapidly destroyed. Join us!