Four months after entering the White House, US President Donald Trump will today meet for the first time with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Despite the impression created by senior Palestinian figures, there are no great expectations at this stage among Abbas’s associates, and there is also a good deal of fear of all the […]
Jordan and Egypt Key to Abbas’ Washington Visit…
Trump Wants September Shutdown to Kill Legislative Filibuster…
President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed ending filibusters of legislation in the Senate and allowing bills to pass via a simple majority — while calling for a government shutdown in September seemingly to force such a momentous change. Trump made the stunning call a day after his White House and congressional GOP leaders struggled to […]
Pro-Clinton Probe of 2016 Reveals That, Yes, Democrats Have a ‘Wall Street Problem’…
Underscoring previous assessments that the Democratic establishment, including the party’s 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, has “a Wall Street problem,” new polling and focus group data shows that Democrats are perceived as woefully out of touch when it comes to the economy. The pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA surveyed 801 voters who backed former President…
Here’s Why Trump Is Talking about Breaking Up the Biggest Wall Street Banks…
Yesterday, Bloomberg News reporters Jennifer Jacobs and Margaret Talev snagged an interview with President Donald Trump. Headlines quickly spread that during the interview Trump had indicated he was looking at breaking up the biggest Wall Street banks (so that commercial banks holding taxpayer-backstopped deposits were no longer under the same ownership as the high-risk…
Spending Deal Has Border Wall Money After All…
Trump: ‘We’re Very Happy with’ Republican Budget Agreement…
Man Trump Named to Fix Mortgage Markets Figured in Infamous Financial Crisis Episode…
In early 2007, a group of Morgan Stanley bankers bundled a group of subprime mortgage instruments into a package they hoped to sell to investors. The only problem was, they couldn’t come up with a name for the package of mortgage-backed derivatives, which they all knew were doomed. The bankers decided to play around with […]
Challenge to Trump’s Sanctuary Cities Policy Supreme Court-Bound…
A federal court in California dealt President Donald Trump another legal setback on Tuesday in his efforts to combat illegal aliens, blocking an executive order (EO) that denies federal funds to sanctuary cities. This issue appears eventually destined for a Supreme Court showdown. The president issued Executive Order 13,768 on January 25, 2017. The order […]
The FBI and Hillary, Again by Andrew Napolitano…
In 2015, a committee of the House of Representatives that was investigating the deaths of four Americans at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, learned that the State Department had no copies of any emails sent or received by Clinton during her four years as secretary of state. When committee investigators pursued this — at […]
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