FOMC PREPARES FOR FIRST MEETING IN NEW MONETARY FRAMEWORK ERA
By Steven K. Beckner (MaceNews) – There was very little chance the Federal Reserve was going to raise interest rates anytime soon but, just to make sure, the Fed’s rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee gave itself a dual justification for holding rates down indefinitely with the new monetary policy framework it announced on Aug. 27 […]
STATUS CHECK: FOOD LINES AND GOVT INERTIA; VIRUS, STREET UNREST, JOBLESSNESS
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The following is Monday’s status check of developments in the U.S. that can influence economic, health and political outcomes: Life in these United States, another chapter. President Trump holds a news conference and defends his MAGA truck rally firing paint balls at Black Lives Matter protestors – “Paint is not bullets.” – […]
SATURDAY/SUNDAY WHITE HOUSE SCHEDULE
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The following is the public White House schedule for Saturday and Sunday: WEEKEND GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORSATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 2020, THROUGH SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 2020 Saturday, August 29, 2020 EDT 8:00AM In-House Pool Call Time 8:00AM Out-of-Town Pool Call Time 10:00AM THE PRESIDENT departs the White House en route to Joint Base Andrews West […]
STATUS CHECK: BAD VIBES ACCUMULATE RE CHINA
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The following is Monday’s status check of developments in the U.S. that can influence economic, health and political outcomes: A new week filled with echoes of last week. Weekend rioting, Chicago after midnight looted stores. A police shooting in the afternoon and mistaken rumors about that shooting was the spark. There was […]
STATUS CHECK: ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER 1,000 US VIRUS DEATHS
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The following is Friday’s status check of developments in the U.S. that can influence economic, health and political outcomes: · Hours of testimony by the nation’s pandemic experts before the House virus oversight committee Friday should have updated the nation with a factual treasure trove of information but instead was mostly a […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH COMMENTARY: AN AMERICAN METEMPSYCHOSIS?
By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – Some say Donald Trump has turned himself into a cultural anachronism. Some say his single-minded push to reopen schools is grotesque as the virus resurges. All the lies, or self deceptions or delusions – China is paying the tariffs; the virus spikes are because of all the testing; it […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH: HAPPY ENDING, UNHAPPY ENDING OR NO ENDING?
By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – Amid all the bad virus news there are a few nuggets of good news. How much good news could there be when another 2,000 or more Americans are killed by the virus every day. One set of projections see that increasing to 3,000 a day by the end of […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH COMMENTARY: HOPES VS REALITY? OR HOPES BECOME REALITY?
By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The virus is still moving, killing more than 2,000 people in the United States for the fourth day in a row Friday and only for the fifth time ever. The death toll is leveling, on a deadly plateau. Except in those states like Illinois, where the daily death toll […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH: TRAGIC VIRUS DISCONNECTS MAY BEGIN TO YIELD TO PHASE 3
By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The sharply different accounts, stories of critical shortages from hospitals and medical personnel versus sweeping assurances from the White House, were in especially sharp contrast Friday while both sides looked to the new rules and mountains of money that finally became available with the day’s signing of Phase 3 […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH: VIRUS STILL UNCHALLENGED, DOMINATING THE NARRATIVE
–President Trump Would Like ‘Beautiful’ Packed Churches on Easter -DJIA Up a Record 2112.98 Pts/11.4%; S&P Up 209.93/+9.3% -US Virus Death Tolls Goes Up By 129 in Latest 24 Hours By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The corona virus, heedless of the new battle of narratives, is steadily spreading mostly unseen Tuesday in and beyond […]