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Dec 14 2019
Opinion
Paul Volcker’s final warning for America
By the late summer of 2018, it was already clear that the US and the world order it had helped establish during my lifetime were facing deep-seated political, economic, and cultural challenges.
Nonetheless, I drew reassurance from my mother’s reminder that the US had endured a brutal civil war, two world wars, a great depression, and still emerged as the leader of the “free world”, a
Paul VolckerJan 03 2024
Headline Roundup
Major Shipping Companies Pause Operations in Red Sea Amid Houthi Attacks
Major shipping and oil companies, such as Danish shipping giant Maersk, are pausing operations in the Red Sea amid Houthi attacks. Shipping will be rerouted around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa.
Key Details: Over the weekend, a Maersk vessel came under attack from Houthi militants, and U.S. Navy helicopters responded to the Maersk Hangzhou's distress call by sinking three Houthi
CNN Digital Fox Business NewsNationJul 01 2013
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Report of U.S. Spying Angers European Allies
European officials reacted angrily on Sunday to a report that the United States had been spying on its European Union allies, saying the claims could threaten talks with Washington on an important trade agreement.
New York Times (News)May 14 2019
News
Escalating Tariffs Test Investors’ Faith in U.S. Growth
Some are trimming investments in stocks and favoring cash or other assets considered safer
The sharp stock-market selloff of recent days is confronting investors with a quandary long avoided during the 10-year-old bull market: Riskier assets suddenly look very risky.
Gains in U.S. stocks have made them historically expensive relative to global equities. Economic growth remains
Wall Street Journal (News)Aug 15 2019
News
Trump Urges China's Xi to Meet Hong Kong Protesters
President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to meet personally with the protesters in Hong Kong, saying it would lead to an end to tensions that have seized the territory for weeks. "If President Xi would meet directly and personally with the protesters, there would be a happy and enlightened ending to the Hong Kong problem. I have no doubt!" Trump tweeted.
Newsmax (News)Apr 07 2020
Opinion
How civic groups are using online tools to fight social isolation in pandemic
As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to upend American life, social lives are vanishing. Coffee shop dates have been traded for quarantines, face-to-face meetings exchanged for physical distance. Real conversations and opportunities for social connection outside of the immediate family are scarce.
Connecting online seems like the logical solution, but has often been an ineffective
Henry A. BrechterMay 16 2016
News
GOP leaders: 'People don't care' about Trump's woman problem
After a week of make-up meetings with Donald Trump, Republican party leaders have arrived at a new strategy to accommodate their presumptive presidential nominee: ignore his problematic attitude to women, his tax issues and his fluctuating positions on trade, immigration, foreign relations and a host of other topics, and instead embrace the will of Republican voters.
The GuardianMay 10 2019
News
U.S. consumers and businesses -- not China -- bear the brunt of Trump's tariffs
In renewing a threat to sharply raise tariffs this week on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of goods from China, President Trump said in a tweet on Sunday that the levies have had little impact on U.S. consumers -- it is the Chinese who are bearing the brunt of the trade war between the world's two biggest economies, he claimed.
Yet research suggests otherwise, showing that
CBS News (Online)Jan 09 2017
Opinion
OPINION: Clearing out dysfunctional institutions
President-elect Donald Trump swept into office promising what President Barack Obama failed to deliver — prosperity and personal security — to an America fallen prey to reckless globalization. Many of his remedies — tax cuts, deregulation, trade and emigration reform — appear Reaganesque but are more radical. If implemented, those will put the United States on a confrontational path with
Guest Writer - RightSep 14 2020
News
Explained: How Trump and Biden would confront China
Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have released ads accusing each other of cozying up to China, and President Trump even went so far as to tell a conservative radio host that Americans would have to "learn to speak Chinese" if Biden was elected.
The increasingly adversarial U.S.-China relationship has become a central issue on the campaign trail, with both candidates invoking the
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