by drjmcurtis | May 13, 2022
Federal Reserved Board Chairman Jerome Powell, 69, said yesterday that there was no guarantee that the FOMC’s move to ratchet up interest rates would result in taming inflation without a recession. Powell said recently that he thought the Fed’s moves to end...
by drjmcurtis | May 12, 2022
President Joe Biden, 79, and Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky insist that Ukraine is winning the war, started by Russia invading Ukraine Feb. 24. Biden and Zelensky cite numerous reports that the Kremlin could not takeover Kiev in the first...
by drjmcurtis | May 12, 2022
Deciding to join NATO after Russia Feb. 24 war in Ukraine, Finland announced today that plans to join the Trans-Atlantic Alliance after warnings from the Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin, 69, knows that Helsinki was aligned with the Western Alliance all...
by drjmcurtis | May 11, 2022
Going after former President Donald Trump with a vengeance, 58-year-old former Defense Secretary Mark Esper won high praise from Trump haters, hoping to prevent the former president from running in 2024. Esper’s book, “A Sacred Oath,” paints Trump as a dictator and...
by drjmcurtis | May 11, 2022
Standing up to President Joe Biden, 79, 74-year-old Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, former head of the Frankfurt-based European Central Bank [ECB], said today that Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin should meet to end the Ukraine War. Draghi’s the first...
by drjmcurtis | May 10, 2022
Warning that the world is running out of fossil fuels, 62-year-old Saudi Oil Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman that the world is “running out of energy capacity at all levels,” music to he ears of climate change activists like Rep. Alexeandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y)...
by drjmcurtis | May 10, 2022
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, 58, slammed his former boss 75-year-old President Donald Trump in his new book, “A Sacred Oath,” claiming for his brief tenure as Defense Secretary he resisted Trump attempts to impose dictatorship on the United States. Esper...
by drjmcurtis | May 9, 2022
Marking the defeat of the Nazis in WW II today, 69-year Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a somber 11-minue speech in Red Square while a traditional military parade showed off Russia’s latest military hardware. With the war in Ukraine raging on, Putin told...
by drjmcurtis | May 8, 2022
Ukraine’s U.S. Amb. Okasna Markarova said her country was “preparing for everything” as Moscow celebrates Victory Day, May 9, with Russian President Vladimir Putin commemorating the USSR’s April 20, 1945 defeat over Nazi Germany. USSR lost about 27 million troops and...
by drjmcurtis | May 8, 2022
When 23-year-old homeless man Isiah Lee charged and tackled 48-year-old comedian David Chappelle at his Hollywood Bowl performance May 3, the public was aghast after watching March 28 53-year-old Best Actor Will Smith slap 57-year-old Chris Rock for making a joke...