Why Is China's Embassy In D.C. Hardening Security Perimeter With Barbed Wire

In studying history, it is key to avoid definitional anachronism—failing to note how a word has changed over time and assuming the present meaning was the same in the past. This is often the case with the word currency as used in colonial America.

Economic Sentiment Belies Strong Economic Estimates Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Economic growth metrics for the United States have recently shown surprising resilience; however, consumers’ economic sentiment has not. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s advance estimate, real Gross Domestic Product expanded at an annualized rate of just 1.4%, well below expectations and a steep drop from the 4.4% pace in the third quarter. However, the record-long federal government shutdown, which ran from October 1 through November 12, subtracted roughly 1 full percentage point from growth, as federal outlays plunged...

The US has launched two more airstrikes in Somalia, according to press releases from US Africa Command, as the Trump administration is keeping up the bombing campaign in the country amid the US-Israeli war against Iran. AFRICOM said that one strike was launched on March 15 and targeted al-Shabaab in the vicinity of Mubaraak, a […]