by John M. Curtis | Jun 6, 2015
Lurking behind Wall Street’s six-year-old bull market is Federal Reserve Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen warning of interest rate hikes in this year’s already sideways market. Instead to moving rates up based on solid corporate earnings and GDP growth, Wall Street’s...
by John M. Curtis | Jun 5, 2015
Indicted May 28, 2015 for lying to the FBI about a series of banking withdrawals amounting to $1.7 million, 73-year-old former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Il.) tried to cover-up pay outs to an unnamed male with whom he had an illegal sexual relationship while...
by John M. Curtis | Jun 4, 2015
Restoring order to Egypt after the Arab Spring that toppled U.S.-friendly dictator Hosni Mubarak Feb. 11, 2011, former 60-year-old Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi defies his critics, relentlessly pursuing what’s left of the Muslim Brotherhood. Hope sprang eternal when...
by John M. Curtis | Jun 3, 2015
More bad news for 53-year-old President Barack Obama hit the headlines with a new CNN/ORC poll showing that his aggregate 43% approval rating dropped below former President George W. Bush. Considered one of the most divisive figures in presidential history, Bush...
by John M. Curtis | Jun 2, 2015
Lecturing the U.S. and the West on the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Iran’s 66-year-old President Hassan Rouhani ripped support of Sunni rebels seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Speaking at a reception in Tehran for Syria’s...