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WALL STREET SINKS ON CHINA AND EUROPE

by | Jan 7, 2016

Sinking another 392 points to close at 16,514 today, the Dow Jones Industrial average is down 10% from its record close May 19, 2015 of 18,312. While still not in the correction category of 20%, the market’s CBOE VIX or market volatility index hit 24.77, less than...

NORTH KOREA’S HYDROGEN BOMB BLUFF

by | Jan 6, 2016

Claiming to detonate a “hydrogen bomb,” North Korea’s state-run new agency claimed the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea broke new ground in its nuclear program testing a thermonuclear device. Generating at 5.1 on the Richter Scale, roughly the same...

OBAMA’S EXECUTIVE ORDER ON GUN CONTROL

by | Jan 5, 2016

In what’s become the true legacy of his two-term presidency, President Barack Obama bypassed Congress to sign another executive action this time on gun control. What Obama couldn’t get from Congress on immigration reform, he signed Nov. 21, 2014 an executive order...

HILLARY ROLLS THE DICE WITH HER HUSBAND

by | Jan 4, 2016

Rolling the dice less than one month before the Iowa caucuses, 68-year-old Democratic front-runner former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton chose to put her husband on the campaign trail. With the primaries and nomination all but locked up, Hillary didn’t need...

SAUDI ARABIA ACCUSES IRAN OF TERRORISM

by | Jan 3, 2016

Storming the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran, angry Shiites protested the Jan. 2 execution of Shiite Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr together with 46 other prisoners accused of sedition in The Kingdom. Executing 157 prisoners in 2015, Saudi Arabia takes the lead in capital...