Yesterday we saw a segment on The Story with Martha MacCallum on Fox and immediately thought of Maneka Gandhi, India’s Central Minister of WCD, Women & Children’s Affairs. According to the segment, a 19-year old woman who had accused two young men of sexually assaulting her recanted her allegations & accepted a plea bargain…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with our comments. This is an article…
As we see on weekly basis, President Trump tends to use sanctions as a tactical & sometimes strategic weapon to persuade other countries to deal with him. His use of intense sanctions backed by a credible military threat has already produced a sea change in North Korea’s relationship with America. Yesterday, the No. 2…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with our comments. This is an article…
Asked to name fine arts, most people would name Music, Poetry, Painting and similar arts. Only those who have studied it and, better, practiced it would name Pure Mathematics as a Fine Art. But it is that and nothing comes close to it in its amazing beauty, its grandeur & the hold it has…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with our comments. This is an article…
Nothing is as seared in our modern memory as the disastrous chaos in Iraq after the 2003 invasion by President George W. Bush. After the glow of that stunning shock & awe of destruction of the Iraqi army in one week, it all went downhill into a violent abyss until the Surge managed by…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with our comments. This is an article…
Look back to August 16, 2016. That was the day Candidate Trump went Back to the Trumpian Movement with a rousing speech in West Bend, Indiana. Robert Costa of Washington Post praised that move, Chris Mathews of MSNBC gushed “That is great Stuff” and, Mark Halperin, then of Bloomberg & MSNBC, said: “That may…
Back in 2015, we were enthusiastic proponents of a deal with Iran. Our basic point was simple – Balance of power in the Middle East was an important American objective and the inability to work with Iran was hurting that objective. Stratfor had made the same point in 2015: “For the United States, the…