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Last week’s General Election in the United Kingdom was a disaster for the new conservative government of Prime Minster Theresa… Read More »British Election Sends Shockwaves Felt Here and Abroad

Given the media’s obsession with some of the President Trump’s communication challenges, it was utterly predictable that the President’s declaration… Read More »In Defense of Trumpian Diplomacy

With his widely followed, and positively reviewed, address to Congress last week, President Trump showed how easy it could be… Read More »Trumpcare: Different Plan, Same Problems

At the Washington joint press conference with Prime Minister May held on January 27th, President Trump told the watching world,… Read More »Britain Needs Trump for Smooth Brexit

On December 7, 2016, Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resigned following defeat in a national referendum, that he had supported,… Read More »Italy’s Bank Rescue Foreshadows Nationalization of More EU Banks

The optimism that has followed the election of Donald Trump has pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average to the threshold… Read More »Bush Trumps Reagan

Over the past year, central banks, commercial bankers and prominent economists have expressed the view that digital money and transfers… Read More »War on Cash Spreads to India

The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 provides the best recent precedent for the unexpected triumph of Donald Trump (in… Read More »King of Debt Takes the Reins

Brexit and the Donald Trump presidential victory should rightly be viewed as the most significant international developments of the last… Read More »Trump Triumphs as Brexit Faces a Serious Threat