Tag Archives: Stock market
Stocks Dive on Inflation Report
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Econ 101: The financial markets took a dive yesterday on the news that inflation was higher in August than had been expected. The S&P 500 slumped 4.3 percent for the day and the Dow was down 3.9 percent, more than 1200 points. …
Trump Blocks Dem Memo, Another Resignation
Saturday, February 10, 2018
Dead Letter Office: President Trump last night blocked the release of the Democratic rebuttal to a memo from House Intelligence Committee Republicans that claimed anti-Trump bias in the FBI’s Russia investigation. The President’s lawyer, Don McGahn, said in a letter …
Surrender and Transition, Who Voted
Thursday, November 10, 2016
In Transition: Donald Trump is expected to meet with President Obama at the White House today to talk about a transition to Trump’s new administration. But hours after Hillary Clinton and President Obama made conciliatory speeches about Trump’s election victory, …
El Chapo Back, Mein Kampf Again
Saturday, January 9, 2016
South of the Border: The elusive Mexican drug dealer Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as “El Chapo,” has been re-captured six months after his elaborately executed escape from Mexico’s most secure prison. Guzmán was taken after a ferocious gun battle in …
Obama Declares on Guns, Downeast Dumb
Friday, January 8, 2016
GunBeat: In a dramatic declaration, President Obama says in an opinion piece in the NY Times today that he will not support for election any politician who doesn’t advocate gun reform. He writes, “Even as I continue to take every …
Obama Cracks on Guns, It’s Elementary
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
GunBeat: President Obama is expected to announce today that he’s taking executive action to tighten gun-buying background checks and step up enforcement of the nation’s’ gun laws. The President will not be able to close the so-called “gun show loophole,” …