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 […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH: DID THE PRESIDENT’S BOLD MOVE SAVE IRAN’S THEOCRACY?
By Denny Gulino THE WHITE HOUSE (MaceNews) – Okay, bashing President Trump is thriving these days, a niche of success in a news business that is largely on life support, a tempting refuge even for reporters who try to preserve the neutrality that has long been the purists’ worthy ideal. Does reflex criticism contaminate ordinary […]
PRES TRUMP TELLS THE WORLD US AND IRAN SHOULD ‘WORK TOGETHER’
–More Sanctions vs Iran on the Way; Continuing to Assess ‘Options’ ’ –No Military Follow-Up for Now By Denny Gulino THE WHITE HOUSE (MaceNews) – As the world exhaled in relief, President Trump Wednesday called on Iran and the U.S. to “work together” and siad the United States “is ready to embrace peace.” Having focused […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH: CALCULATING ‘LDON’ (LAST DAY OF NORMALCY)
By Denny Gulino THE WHITE HOUSE (MaceNews) – For anyone who hasn’t had their fill of facile and obvious scenarios for the near-term future, there’s plenty more to choose among yet somehow the graybeards among the talking heads seem somewhat quiet, unlike their young colleagues for whom escalating geopolitical threats and impeachment efforts are only […]
POOL REPORTS/PRES TRUMP: IRAN CULTURAL SITES VALID US TARGETS
— If US Military Expelled from Iraq, Will Want Payment, Otherwise Sanctions WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The following White House pool report transcription excerpts are the portions of President Donald Trump’s remarks to reporters aboard Air Force One returning to Washington Sunday night that were placed on the record: POTUS pulled the pool in to his cabin […]
WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING ON KILLING OF IRAN QUDS FORCE CHIEF
–Would Be ‘Disappointed’ If Iraqi Parliament Votes to Expel US Troops WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The following is the White House transcript of a rare on-the-record news briefing Friday, this one held by the National Security adviser to the president, on the operation that killed the head of Iran’s Quds Force: ON-THE-RECORD PRESS CALLBY NATIONAL SECURITY […]
FOMC MINUTES: CONTENTMENT ABOUNDS WITH STAND-STILL POLICY
— ‘Current Stance of Monetary Policy as Likely to Remain Appropriate For a Time’ WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The minutes of the most recent Federal Open Market Committee Friday revealed nothing beyond general contentment with current stand-still monetary policy, containing no hint of any change contemplated for down the road. The text of the section of […]
ANALYSIS: IN US-IRAN CONFLICT, STRATEGIC CONTEXT STILL A MYSTERY
–If ‘The Game Has Changed,’ What’s the New Game? By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – Acting in the face of what it considered an imminent attack, the Pentagon’s killing of the Iranian Quds Force chief has set the stage for inevitable retaliation of some sort with the missing element for analysts the strategic context for […]