VP PENCE INTENSIFIES ADVICE TO US FIRMS NOT TO PANDER TO CHINA
By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – While both parties in Congress are in the process of rebuking the Trump administration for being soft on Turkey and Russia, Vice President Mike Pence Thursday reprised his sharp condemnation of China, apparently confident the harsh words will continue to be ignored there in the pursuit of a preliminary […]
DRAGHI: ECB COUNCIL ‘UNIFIED’ DESPITE POLITICAL PRESSURE ON RATE SETTERS
By Laurie Laird FRANKFURT (MaceNews) – European Central Bank rate setters have largely settled their policy disagreements, according to ECB President Mario Draghi, while acknowledging that global central banks are coming under increasing political pressure. Addressing reporters after his final meeting, Draghi described a “general call for unity” among governing council members, after a number […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH: TRUMP’S ‘WE’RE GETTING OUT’ LEAVES MIDEAST WONDERING
–‘Let Someone Else Fight Over This Long-Bloodstained Sand.’ By Denny Gulino THE WHITE HOUSE (MaceNews) – President Donald Trump’s sweeping statements Wednesday about never again fighting “over this long bloodstained sand” signaled his determination not to send troops into harm’s way other than in line with his definition of the national interest – a statement […]
PRES TRUMP DECLARES VICTORY IN SYRIA AS RUSSIA REPLACES US AS PEACEKEEPER
–Lifting Sanctions on Turkey; May See Erdogan at White House WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – President Trump Wednesday morning said the situation at the Turkey border, with Russia replacing the U.S. as peacekeeper, is exactly what he wanted, praising Turkey’s leader and saying he has been thanked by the Kurdish leadership. “This was an outcome created by […]
US DOJ CHALLENGES CALIF-QUEBEC CAP & TRADE DEAL
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The following is the announcement Wednesday morning of a U.S. Department of Justice challenge to California’s cap and trade deal with Quebec: The United States today filed a civil complaint against the state of California, several of its officers, the California Air Resources Board, and the Western Climate Initiative Inc., for unlawfully […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH: UNWELCOME RAINDROPS FALLING, FALLING, FALLING
By Denny Gulino THE WHITE HOUSE (MaceNews) – The rain finally arrived Tuesday afternoon, making the threatened evening appearance of a White House adviser on the driveway a pain in the neck for photographers and reporters who were already given the formal “lid” announcement by the press staff at 4:52 p.m., an “all clear” that […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH: INFLECTION POINT II – QUESTIONS IN THE RANKS
–U.S. Economic Power Can Be ‘Much More Powerful … Than Playing With Guns’ By Denny Gulino THE WHITE HOUSE (MaceNews) – A new week, a Monday Cabinet meeting backgrounds another long recitation of familiar themes from President Trump, the stock market stays positive – and yet again, nothing seems quite the same. As on Friday, […]
IMF’S GEORGIEVA: ‘EVERYBODY LOSES’ IN A TRADE WAR
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The governing body of the IMF, the International Monetary and Finance Committee, Saturday wound up the Fall meetings of the IMF and World Bank, issuing a communique that again pledged not to use exchange rate manipulation for a trade advantage. In her news conference afterward, the new IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH: QUIET AFTER THE WEEK’S STORMS AND A KEY INFLECTION POINT
By Denny Gulino THE WHITE HOUSE (MaceNews) -It’s not just the sinking Fall sun casting long shadows on the White House, On a Friday afternoon, after a tumultuous week for President Donald Trump, the press room is quiet although as always, coiled like a spring in case there’s a two-minute warning for pool reporters to […]
FED’S WILLIAMS: STILL ASSESSING WHETHER MORE RATE CUTS NEEDED
NEW YORK (MaceNews) – New York Fed President John Williams Thursday declined to say he favored a rate cut at the next Federal Open Market Committee meeting, saying instead that policy-makers are still assessing the need for additional measures. Williams, speaking to reporters after a speech to an industry group, was asked whether he favored […]