At the beginning of the month, the hard-fought-for Dutch coalition that Geert Wilders had won the right to be part of – and forfeited his right to be prime minister of the country for – had iced out the conservative leader one too many times over his party’s hard-line immigration stance. After all, campaigning on...
Ed, David, and I have all written about some aspect of the alternate joint US-Israeli aid program underway in Gaza right now. American contractors have set up a relief system to get food into the area and are predicting that they will be able to feed over half of the residents, hopefully by the end...
Getty Images US stocks and the dollar plunged again as President Donald Trump intensified his attacks on US central bank boss calling him “a major loser” for not lowering interest rates. In a social media post, Trump called on Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates “pre-emptively” to help boost the economy, saying...
EPA Stock markets in London, Paris and Berlin fell as trading began on Thursday after US President Donald Trump’s sweeping announcements on tariffs. The UK’s FTSE 100 share index was down 1% while France’s Cac 40 fell 1.7%. Earlier Asian markets had slid, while the price of gold, which is seen as a safer assest...
