by drjmcurtis | Feb 13, 2016
Pretending that the war in Syria is a “civil war,” Saudi Arabia and Turkey have dragged the U.S. into the worst relations with Russia since the Cold War. Saudi Arabia’s King Salman demanded various states stop “interfering” in the Kingdom, when, in fact, Saudi Arabia,...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 12, 2016
Meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Munich Feb. 11, 70-year-old Secretary of State John Kerry announced a “cessation of hostilities” March 1 in Syria, for the purposes to getting humanitarian aid into the war-ravaged area. Since Russia joined the...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 11, 2016
Telling Congress Feb. 10 that a rate cut was unlikely, Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen hinted that there’s still a chance the Fed will tighten more in 2016. Yellen’s words aren’t taken lightly by Wall Street, with the Dow Jones Industrials and S&P 500...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 10, 2016
Tossing the mainstream political establishment into chaos, New Hampshire’s landslides for GOP real estate mogul Donald Trump and Democratic Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders served notice that voters looked for something different in 2016. Since Bernie announced April 30,...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 9, 2016
Jockeying for position in last-ditch efforts to find a lane to continue their presidential races, GOP candidates took out the knives in ABC’s Feb. 6 debate. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ripped into Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) whose impressive third-place Iowa finish...