As predicted, Italy made history Sunday, electing its first ever female Prime Minister. Winning a preponderance of the votes cast, the Brothers of Italy’s Georgia Meloni will presumably take the helm of the E.U.’s third largest economy at the head of a coalition right wing government. Facing a daunting economic and geopolitical environment,
When voters who haven’t already voted go to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots it will be with the Senate very much in play and Democrats needing a miracle to prevent a Republican takeover of the House. Midterms having historically provided rebukes to even reasonably successful first-term Presidents, with the party of the sitting President
When on Monday FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (hereafter referred to as SBF) took to Twitter to reassure depositors that the third-largest cryptocurrency firm’s liquidity was fine, one could be forgiven for hearing echoes of Bear and Lehman’s c-suiters talking to CNBC to reassure their respective sources of funding, their short-term lenders, that their
With primaries having concluded, the stage is set for an uncertain midterm election just six weeks from now. Whereas even six months ago the betting money would have been on the Democrats receiving an historic two-chamber shellacking, a combination of factors have resulted in the tables possibly having turned, with the Democrats now projected to
Washington D.C., home of the monumental overreaction, is at it again, this time threatening China and the Solomon Islands over a security agreement negotiated between the two. Forget the fact that 99 percent of Americans couldn’t point out the Solomon Islands on a map, or that we have dozens of military bases and installations in the region, some
In 2008 Warren Buffett issued a public challenge to the industry he most despised: hedge funds. Charging its clients 2% of assets under management plus 20% of any profits, Buffett wagered none of them could beat the annual return of the S&P 500. That bet was accepted, and ten years later the token wager of one million dollars was duly paid to the
By now everyone has heard or seen it, the thirty-second video clip having been destined to go viral the moment it happened. In an understandably rare public speaking event at the George W. Bush Institute at Southern Methodist University, the 43 president made a Freudian slip of almost unimaginable proportions: he admitted to being a war criminal.
If you need any more evidence that U.S. foreign policy is completely out of control, look no further than Commander-in-Chief Biden’s latest pronouncements regarding Taiwan – which is not a country. That’s right. Not according to the United Nations or the United States government. In fact, it is acknowledged by both that Taiwan is part of China.
Or rather, in the case of Somalia, we never stopped – and we just keep doing it! As the Biden administration orders U.S. troops to back to Somalia in significant numbers, several things are worth noting in opposition to yet another military response to a faraway crisis of small stakes and absolutely no consequence to Americans. First, U.S.
With Republicans and Democrats in Congress having openly expressed their united opposition to the Biden administration reentering the nuclear agreement with Iran (the JCPOA), it should come as no surprise that negotiations have gone nowhere. The reason? Beneath all the bluster about nefarious Iranian activities in the Middle East and the back
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