by Andrew Moran | Mar 17, 2022 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Opinion
The US annual inflation rate hit a fresh 40-year high of 7.9% in February, and economists anticipate that it will most likely top 8% in March because of fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. If Americans were to believe President Joe Biden and other...
by Dave Patterson | Mar 16, 2022 | Articles, International, Opinion
While civilian homes, apartment buildings, and hospitals were being pounded, ceasefire talks between Ukraine and Russia resumed this week but failed to achieve substantive breakthroughs. Senior negotiators from Kyiv and Moscow, who met via a video teleconference,...
by Dave Patterson | Mar 15, 2022 | Articles, Exclusive Member, Good Reads, International, Opinion
There is no hyperbole in asserting Vladimir Putin is currently the most dangerous man on earth. Leader of a country with nuclear weapons, he shows no reluctance to threaten to use them. But what prompted the Kremlin’s leader to embark, without provocation, on...
by James Fite | Mar 15, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
President Joe Biden has suffered falling approval numbers since August 2021, but Ukraine could be his turning point. Unable to quite figure out the old saying “never let a good crisis go to waste,” the commander-in-chief failed to eke out a win with his response to...
by Tim Donner | Mar 14, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
Measuring presidential leadership is a tricky business. Being a wise and astute leader can often involve making high-stakes or downright risky decisions to head off expected trouble, or reacting to crises in an appropriate and timely fashion, and striking the right...