WHITE HOUSE WATCH: WILD WEEK ENDS WITH NOTHING IMPORTANT CHANGED
By Denny Gulino THE WHITE HOUSE (MaceNews) – Friday evening at the White House, no longer ground zero for an Iran retaliation, and the president’s teleprompter reading Wednesday declaring that country appears to be “standing down” is already a fading memory – and no longer distracted, the realization returns that nothing important has really changed. […]
ANALYSIS: US DEC JOBS REPORT, INITIAL CLAIMS SHOW HIRING RESISTING SLOWDOWN
–Wages Decelerate to Annual +2.9% Through December WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The latest jobs numbers Friday and the even more current initial jobless benefit claims total on Thursday showed that while American workers are seeing the hope of an acceleration in wage gains fade as growth moderates the pace of hiring remains exceptionally strong. Most analysts […]
TEXT: US APPLIES NEW SANCTIONS TO IRAN INDUSTRY, OFF’LS
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The following is the text of the U.S. Treasury announcement Friday of additional sanction being applied against Iran industry and senior officials: Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against eight senior Iranian regime officials who have advanced the regime’s destabilizing objectives, as well […]