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Border guards reported 200,000 encounters with migrants on our southern border in July. The total number of Afghan allies who will gain entry to the U.…
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“Cradle-to grave” is a derisive description applied by conservatives to the President’s $4 trillion plan to enact government programs ranging from pre-…
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Informed sources deny that President Biden has asked Jimmy Carter to organize the helicopter rescue of the Americans and Afghan allies abandoned to the…
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The American economy added a mere 235,000 jobs in August, perhaps one-third of what economists were predicting. Experts reckon that the Delta virus red…
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Vice president Kamala Harris stopped off in Vietnam to assure a nation that had witnessed helicopters taking off from Saigon rooftops in 1975 that her …
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A virtual meeting of the worlds central bankers lacks the glamour and gorgeous background setting of America’s Rocky Mountains. But that did not dampen…
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A combined company valued at over one billion dollars has been formed by a merger of the Shades of Gray, WOW Tech Group and Lovehoney, delicately calle…
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“Nobody can be a great economist who is only an economist – and … the economist who is only an economist is likely to become a nuisance if not a positi…
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The White House has asked Saudi Arabia to increase its oil production to bring down gasoline prices in the U.S. The high prices, says the White House, …
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Exactly 50 years ago today, on August 16, 1971, the world awakened to find the international financial and trading system in place when went to bed, go…
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The senate is now dotting the “i”s and crossing the “t” in the word trillions, as in the $4 trillion President Biden plans to spend on infrastructure a…
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Source: MarketWatch ​In an exercise of what can only be described as ideological blindness – or vindictiveness – President Biden launched his plan to i…
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