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Cohen Raid Brings RICO Into Play
With the raid of Michael Cohen’s office, it is becoming clear that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had decided to pursue a RICO case against Trump and his associates and perhaps his family. Passed in 1970, the Racketeer Influenced... Read →
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No Guardrails for the US Economy
At first, the market dipped, then rallied after China matched Trump’s $50 billion tariff threat. Now it is dipping at his latest salvo – $100 billion more. Traders are searching for some rationale for ignoring the very real... Read →
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Trump and Amazon
The man has never walked alone down Madison Avenue, Lexington Avenue, anywhere in New York. He probably has never bought a newspaper by himself or a slice of pizza on the streets of the City. He has lived a protected life – and the... Read →
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Thank God for America’s High School Students
We have so little cause for optimism these days, constantly unnerved as we are by a seriously unstable President and a corrupt and compromised Congress. Our world, including our place in the hierarchy of nations today and the ever more... Read →
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Putin Fires Tillerson
News is just out that Rex Tillerson has been replaced by Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State. Of course, we had predicted Tillerson’s ouster for some time, and had indicated late in 2017 that Tillerson was waiting for his deferment... Read →
Setting the Record Straight on Gary Cohn
Gary Cohn resigned on Wednesday as the Director of the National Economic Council and Chief Economic Advisor to Donald Trump. The media has been very generous to Cohn, writing about how principled he was to resign on the basis of a... Read →
This Qualcomm Debacle Would Look Awful If It Happened In the Third World
Many who follow financial news have been aware that Qualcomm has been battling against a hostile takeover by Broadcom since last fall. Qualcomm is the wireless technology company whose stock seemed to multiply weekly in 1999, but has been... Read →
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With Jared Kushner in the White House, Americans Have No Need to Invest in Emerging Markets
Generally, emerging market investing gives American investors (or Western European investors) the opportunity to achieve higher returns on their investment in return for the increased risk associated with a system involving a certain... Read →
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Georgia Just Shot Itself
Georgia's attack on Delta Airlines for shedding its NRA ties following the Parkland massacre will cause Amazon to look elsewhere for HQ2.
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One Hope in A Sea of Hopelessness
America is in a very bad place today, no matter what perspective one takes. Politically, one is deluged by intrigue, chaos, corruption, greed and ignorance from the party in power; and the Democrats, with rare exceptions, have little to... Read →
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Rick Gates Cops a Plea With Mueller; How It Leads Us to a Constitutional Crisis
The evidence against Rick Gates is overwhelming. The evidence against Paul Manafort is also definitive. By turning Gates, Mueller is going to get additional insight into the collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians. Since... Read →
It's Finally Time to Follow Australia
In April 1996, some lunatic opened fire in the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur, killing 35 and wounding 23. Port Arthur involved only a single shotgun and a single deranged individual. Yet, Australians were sensible enough to just say... Read →
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Open Season
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s latest charges that Russia did indeed play a major and invasive role in the 2016 Presidential Elections, are finally incontrovertible evidence that Russian operatives did everything they could to take... Read →
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Where is My Roy Cohn?
Donald Trump, at a moment of great insecurity, was heard recently to exclaim, "Where is my Roy Cohn?" It was, at the same time, unsettling and telling. Unsettling because it revealed much about Trump when he is most... Read →
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