Buttigieg Disrupts the Gerontocrats' Party
The counting & reporting fiasco in Iowa continues, but it is clear from the early returns (62% of precincts) that 38 year old former Mayor Pete...
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2020: The Year of the Gerontocrats; Advantage Trump
The key to watch out for in the Iowa caucuses on Monday is whether Bernie Sanders wins. If he does, he will be looking like the presumptive...
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Trade Armistice Is a Green Flag to Risk Assets; Trump Wins, China Loses
Since the US will keep tariffs unchanged on half its imports from China (similar to tariffs that prevailed in Sept-Nov 2019, when US imports from...
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Trump Escalates Confrontation with Iran as US Industrial Recession Deepens: Sell Brent
Qassem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force (the "external"-- i.e., international state-terror -- arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,...
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Trump Is Winning the Trade War Vs China Hands Down, but Vietnam & Taiwan Win Too
In Jan-Oct 2019, the US bilateral trade deficit with China declined by 14.6% YoY (US$50bn) as tariffs began to bite, and US exports to China...
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