by drjmcurtis | Jun 28, 2015
Calling the European Union’s bluff, 40-year-old Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras imposed capital controls, shuttering Greece’s banks Monday, after rejecting a bailout deal with EU finance ministers. Tsipras bet that Greece’s financial solvency is worth more to the...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 27, 2015
Greece’s 40-year-old Prime Minister Alex Tsipras has pushed the European Union finance ministers and Christine Lagarde’s International Monetary Fund to the brink, making unrealistic demands to Greece’s creditors. Begging for a $16 billion cash infusion as a part of...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 26, 2015
Handing another blow to the conservative cause, a divided Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 for posterity to permit same-sex marriage. What’s lost in the endless battle of dissenting opinions is that the case was never about religious, historical or traditional definitions...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 25, 2015
Ruling 6 to 3 the U.S. Supreme Court in King v. Burwell, government subsidies for the Affordable Care Act continue, protecting over 6 million subscribers receiving untold millions in government help. Conservatives thought they had the legal ace-in-the-hole against a...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 24, 2015
Insisting publicly that Russia doesn’t supply arms or weapons to Alexandr Zakharchenko’s pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukaine, Russian President Vladimir Putin exposed himself as a master propagandist. When Malaysian Flight 17 was downed by a Russian...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 23, 2015
Ignoring Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warning about deploying military hardware near Russia’s western border, 60-year-old U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter answered pleas of Poland the Baltic States to have military reinforcements. Fearful that Putin could do...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 22, 2015
Since the Eurozone launched Jan. 1, 1999, it didn’t take long for the honeymoon to wear off in Greece, where transitioning from the affordable drachma to the pricey euro seemed OK at first but headed south quickly. With Greece’s socialized government, its $2.07...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 21, 2015
Looking more like a farce, the Iranian nuke deal got some bad news from Iran’s parliament and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: No nuclear inspections at Iran’s military sites. Without verification of Iran’s cessation of all sensitive nuclear weapons research,...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 20, 2015
Answering questions at an economic forum in St. Petersburg on the Bering Sea, 62-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed his real reasons for invading Crimea March 1, 2014 and supplying arms and troops in the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine. Calling...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 19, 2015
Lashing out at the U.S., China and several other governments used the June 17 massacre at historic Charleston, S.C. Emanuel AME Church as proof of lingering racism and a flawed U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, guaranteeing the right to bear arms. Foreign...