Why did the White House just humiliate Loretta Lynch? ... Idiotic: That's the only word for the Obama administration's move to scrub references to Islam or ISIS from the transcripts of Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen's calls. Under an avalanche of ridicule, the Justice Department on Monday relented and released the full transcripts. But what was the point? -NY PostThe war on terror is a Western in...Read More
The U.S. administration sought on Friday to contain fallout from a leaked internal memo critical of its Syria policy, but showed no sign it was willing to consider military strikes against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces called for in the letter signed by dozens of American diplomats. – ReutersTwo statements issued recently show that Left and Right both expect Hillary to be...Read More
El-Erian: Raghuram Rajan's departure is bad news, and not just for India ... Saturday's announcement that Raghuram Rajan would not serve a second term as governor of the Reserve Bank of India, the country's central bank, is bad news. -YahooIt is bad news, according to Yahoo, because the next central banker in charge of the central bank of India will print more money than Rajan did.Of course, centr...Read More
Russia’s Putin: why did Britain call Brexit referendum ... Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday questioned why British Prime Minister David Cameron had called a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union. “If it’s such a problem, why did he initiate this, if he is against it himself?” Putin said of Cameron at a meeting on the sidelines of the St...Read More
President Obama plans to visit a memorial in Hiroshima, Japan, that displays a large photograph of the city's destruction seven decades ago. The striking image is typically identified as a mushroom cloud. But nuclear experts say it actually shows billowing smoke from a raging firestorm. -NY TimesWe missed this report from the New York Times last month pointing out that the photograph of the atomic...Read More
The U.S. administration sought on Friday to contain fallout from a leaked internal memo critical of its Syria policy, but showed no sign it was willing to consider military strikes against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces called for in the letter signed by dozens of American diplomats. – ReutersTwo statements issued recently show that Left and Right both expect Hillary to be...Read More
El-Erian: Raghuram Rajan's departure is bad news, and not just for India ... Saturday's announcement that Raghuram Rajan would not serve a second term as governor of the Reserve Bank of India, the country's central bank, is bad news. -YahooIt is bad news, according to Yahoo, because the next central banker in charge of the central bank of India will print more money than Rajan did.Of course, centr...Read More
Russia’s Putin: why did Britain call Brexit referendum ... Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday questioned why British Prime Minister David Cameron had called a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union. “If it’s such a problem, why did he initiate this, if he is against it himself?” Putin said of Cameron at a meeting on the sidelines of the St...Read More
President Obama plans to visit a memorial in Hiroshima, Japan, that displays a large photograph of the city's destruction seven decades ago. The striking image is typically identified as a mushroom cloud. But nuclear experts say it actually shows billowing smoke from a raging firestorm. -NY TimesWe missed this report from the New York Times last month pointing out that the photograph of the atomic...Read More
Brazil’s Rio state declares financial disaster before Games ... The acting governor of Rio de Janeiro state has declared a state of financial disaster so he has more leeway to manage the state’s scarce resources less than two months Brazil hosts the Olympic Games. Francisco Dornelles announced the decision on Friday. It will allow Rio’s state government to change its budgetar...Read More
Brazil’s Rio state declares financial disaster before Games ... The acting governor of Rio de Janeiro state has declared a state of financial disaster so he has more leeway to manage the state’s scarce resources less than two months Brazil hosts the Olympic Games. Francisco Dornelles announced the decision on Friday. It will allow Rio’s state government to change its budgetar...Read More
When it comes to which candidate is best prepared to tackle matters of public health, the choice is clear to Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. [He] told STAT News in an interview published Friday that while his organization would “approach any administration with a positive open mind,” he has more experience with both Hillary and Bill Clinton through the Clinton Found...Read More
When it comes to which candidate is best prepared to tackle matters of public health, the choice is clear to Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. [He] told STAT News in an interview published Friday that while his organization would “approach any administration with a positive open mind,” he has more experience with both Hillary and Bill Clinton through the Clinton Found...Read More
Hillary Clinton’s emails are a non-scandal ... Given longstanding weaknesses in the State Department system, she made a rational decision. The pseudo-scandal over Hillary Clinton's emails bubbled up again with the recent release of the State Department Inspector General's report. -USA TodayRichard Ben-Veniste has written an editorial at USA Today that argues Hillary's decision to keep her...Read More
Gold price hit another high this week – how can you invest? - The WeekGold didn't just have a good week, it's having a good year.Gold prices have moved up significantly since May 2014 and gained even more momentum since the beginning of 2016. Gold is the best performing major asset class this year.A spate of positive articles in the mainstream media regarding the progress of both gold an...Read More
Hillary Clinton’s emails are a non-scandal ... Given longstanding weaknesses in the State Department system, she made a rational decision. The pseudo-scandal over Hillary Clinton's emails bubbled up again with the recent release of the State Department Inspector General's report. -USA TodayRichard Ben-Veniste has written an editorial at USA Today that argues Hillary's decision to keep her...Read More
Gold price hit another high this week – how can you invest? - The WeekGold didn't just have a good week, it's having a good year.Gold prices have moved up significantly since May 2014 and gained even more momentum since the beginning of 2016. Gold is the best performing major asset class this year.A spate of positive articles in the mainstream media regarding the progress of both gold an...Read More
Hillary Clinton Plays Trump Perfectly As GOP Nominee Flip Flops On Terror Watch List Gun Ban ... Hillary Clinton is perfectly pulling Trump’s strings as presumptive GOP nominee announced that he is flip-flopping and now supporting a bill that would prohibit people on the terror watch list from legally buying guns. – PoliticoAccording to this Politico article, Donald Trump has decided...Read More
The U.S. Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged on Wednesday and signaled it still planned to raise rates twice in 2016, though it said slower economic growth would crimp the pace of monetary policy tightening in future years. The central bank’s decision to stick with its 2016 rate path, however, appeared shakier, with six of its 17 policymakers projecting just one increase this yea...Read More
China’s Supercollider Higgs Factory Will Be Twice The Size Of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider ... China could soon rival Europe and the U.S. as a global leader in the field of particle physics. The world’s most populous country now also aims to build the world’s most powerful supercollider to have a better understanding of the Higgs boson, the so-called god-particle. -Tech T...Read More