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Greece’s Prime Minister Tsipras Overplays His Hand

by | Jun 30, 2015

Playing a dangerous game of chicken with the European Union, 40-year-old socialist Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gambled and lost with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Mario Draghi’s Frankfurt-based European Central Bank. Spending over 240 billion euros...

GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE TOSSES HAT INTO THE RING

by | Jun 30, 2015

Declaring himself a 2016 GOP candidate for president, 52-year-old New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie started his uphill battle for the GOP nomination. Polling relative to other GOP candidates at 4%, Christine finds himself in a deep hole, hoping to attract one of the...

CONSERVATIVES GO WILD OVER GAY MARRIAGE RULING

by | Jun 29, 2015

Showing why he’s polling in a crowded 2016 GOP field at only four percent, 44-year-old first-term Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) went off-the-wall, insisting the Supreme Court “rewrote the Constitution,” ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges June 26 legalizing same-sex marriage....

GREECE’S TSIPRAS CALLS THE EU’S BLUFF

by | Jun 28, 2015

Calling the European Union’s bluff, 40-year-old Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras imposed capital controls, shuttering Greece’s banks Monday, after rejecting a bailout deal with EU finance ministers. Tsipras bet that Greece’s financial solvency is worth more to the...

GREECE’S EUROZONE CRISIS CLOSE TO THE BRINK

by | Jun 27, 2015

Greece’s 40-year-old Prime Minister Alex Tsipras has pushed the European Union finance ministers and Christine Lagarde’s International Monetary Fund to the brink, making unrealistic demands to Greece’s creditors. Begging for a $16 billion cash infusion as a part of...