As the ousted “Emperor,” Biden made his “final walk” from the dias at the UN, he was not the Emperor of yore, brimming with the bravura that the U.S. is back, and “I’m running the world.” For as the Middle East explodes, and the Ukrainian bubble deflates, the White...
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer. All things fall apart. The center cannot hold.” -- W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming As of May 2024, the United States has committed over $175 (borrowed) billion to escalating...
Many investors, businesses, and consumers cheered the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate cut since March of 2020. The Fed’s 50 basis points interest rate reduction was larger than many Fed watchers anticipated and was followed by suggestions that there are more...