Inflation may have tumbled from multi-decade highs on both sides of the Atlantic, but progress has stalled in the United States, with the Federal Reserve now expected to start cutting interest rates well after its European counterpart. Annual US inflation, as measured by the Fed’s preferred gauge,...
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On the 2020 campaign trail, candidate Joe Biden said President Trump had abandoned all fiscal discipline on military spending. Four years later, the Pentagon budget is $146 billion higher than when Trump left office, and President Biden just exploited a loophole in his budget deal with Rep. Kevin...
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For a very long time, many in the Western world have not engaged at all with the issues stemming from the occupation of Palestine. The occupation was in the news, every year or so, for a day or two, and then it would go again. It was too “complicated”, those who knew about the context – on either...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Joe Biden averaged 38.7% job approval during his recently completed 13th quarter in office, which began on Jan. 20 and ended April 19. None of the other nine presidents elected to their first term since Dwight Eisenhower had a lower 13th-quarter average than Biden....
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<p><em>By Marc Champion</em></p>.<p>Why are Donald Trump and MAGA America so fascinated by Viktor Orban, the prime minister of a small, landlocked central European nation that many of them likely couldn’t find on a map? Because, as he said in 2022 when he addressed a US...
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