by drjmcurtis | Mar 2, 2018
Announcing March 1 that he intends to slap foreign steel producers with a 25% tariff and 10% for aluminum, 71-year-old President Donald Trump said he intends to win the trade battle to save the steel and aluminum industries. Called a risk for a trade war by economist...
by drjmcurtis | Mar 1, 2018
Sitting at a conference table at the White House with 84-year-old Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) by his side, 71-year-old Donald Trump stunned the National Rifle Assn. [NRA] speaking boldly about seizing guns from the mentally ill. Trump told the group of Democratic...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 28, 2018
When 71-year-old Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions recused himself March 2, 2017 from the Russian probe into alleged Trump collusion in the 2016 election, 71-year-old Donald Trump was furious. Once Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein convinced Sessions to stay clear of the...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 27, 2018
Taking the reins from 71-year-old former Federal Reserve Board Chaiwoman Janet Yellen Feb. 5, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell freaked out markets announcing that he expect to raise the Federal Funds Rate four times in 2018. Market showed their displeasure selling off the...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 26, 2018
Hoping for a diplomatic breakthrough at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, neither the U.S. nor North Korea spoke one word during the two-week love-fest. North Korea performed a charm offensive with its 22-member crew marching in the Opening Ceremony under one Korean...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 25, 2018
Declaring that the U.N. Security Council demand an end to the seven-year-old Syrian War, 63-year-old Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan showed how he plays all sides against each other. Turkey backed the Saudi proxy war for seven years in Syria to topple the...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 24, 2018
Democrats protested wildly when Republicans led by House Intelligence Committee Co-Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) released Feb. 2 a secret memo detailing abuses at the FBI and Justice Department with regard to wiretapping Trump campaign officials. Released over the...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 23, 2018
Coerced into a plea bargain with Special Counsel former FBI Director Robert Mueller, 45-year-old former Trump campaign aid Rick Gates proved only one thing: If you can’t pay the freight, you’ll fold like a stack of cards. Mueller knew that Trump’s former campaign aid,...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 22, 2018
Showing revolting tone-deafness to the nation’s agony over the Feb. 14 Valentine’s Day massacre killing 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Fl., 68-year-old National Rifle Assn. [NRA]. CEO and Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre turned peoples’...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 21, 2018
With the hoopla of the Pyeongchang Winter Games winding down, North Korean officials cancelled what was billed as an historic meeting with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence. While sitting close to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s younger sister Kim Yo-jong at the...