by John M. Curtis | Jul 6, 2019
Economists at the Federal Reserve Board and elsewhere can’t explain why the otherwise booming U.S. economy has little-to-no inflation, something Chairman Jerome Powell said heated up in 2018, prompting four straight 0.25% rate hikes. President Donald Trump slammed...
by John M. Curtis | Jul 5, 2019
Seizing Supertanker Grace in the Mediterranean near Strait of Gibraltar July 4, British Marines enforced European Union sanctions against Iran for its malign behavior in the Middle East and North Africa. Since signing the P5 + 1 [U.S., U.K., France, Russia, China and...
by John M. Curtis | Jul 4, 2019
Thanks to the eight-year-old Saudi proxy war to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, remaining pockets of terrorists exist in Syria’s Northwestern Idlib desert region. Former President Barack Obama and the European Union [EU] was all-in backing rebel groups to...
by John M. Curtis | Jul 3, 2019
President Donald Trump’s 38-year-old son-in-law Jared Kushner hinted at political concessions to Palestinians after spending a week in Bahrain, getting a $50 billion commitment for Palestinian economic development. Palestinian Liberation Organization [PLO] Chairman...
by John M. Curtis | Jul 2, 2019
Making good on threats to ramp up uranium enrichment by July 7, Iran exceeded the limit of enriched uranium, going over its 300-kilogram limit. While denying that its was ever working on a nuclear bomb, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani warned the P5-1, excluding the...