$USO $BA In this time of global crisis and economic uncertainty, both Democrats and Republicans have been seeking to exploit the China Virus pandemic in pursuit of partisan policy objectives. Bad policy! The Washington Free Beacon has come up with 10 elements to fix and shield the US economy from the WHO/China Virus crisis. Congress should […]
$XAU $GLD “Gold is a place you want to be. I think that it’s partly because its inversely correlated with interest rates. But it’s also an insurance policy when things go wrong,” David Rosenberg said. “There’s no such thing as a no-brainer, but this is close.” Gold is off to a terrific start this year […]
When the US government formally asked NATO partner Germany to join in freedom-of-navigation patrols in the Strait of Hormuz, where Iranian gunboats have seized other nations’ ships, detonated mines, and flouted international law, it did so with an inducement. Tamara Sternberg-Greller, the spokesman for the US embassy in Berlin, remarked: “Members of the German government […]
President Trump has shaken the world trade order by imposing unilateral tariffs to combat what he calls unfair trade practices by the EU, Canada, Mexico, China and other major trading partners of the US. US GLOBAL TARIFFS – 25% tariffs on imported steel and 10% tariffs on imported aluminum, imposed on 23 March 2018 on […]
Commentary: Paul Ebeling on Wall Street $DIA, $SPY, $QQQ, $RUTX Again, the big cap indexes are set up well. The small and mid-caps are near the old highs and testing. Earnings are set up, ready to drive market North. The Big Q: Will the EPS provide the catalyst? The Big A: Yes, accompanied with good […]
Commentary: Paul Ebeling on Wall Street $DIA, $SPY, $QQQ, $RUTX The big cap indexes are set up well. The small and mid-caps are near the old highs and testing. Earnings are set up, ready to drive market North. The Big Q: Will the EPS provide the catalyst? The Big A: Yes, accompanied with good guidance […]
Commentary: Paul Ebeling on Wall Street $DIA, $SPY, $QQQ, $RUTX This week it is President Trump and President Putin’s Summit in Helsinki Finland, but there is a lot to move markets during this week. President Donald Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki Monday, and that is the main event this week. But earnings […]
Trump-Pence: Week 76 in the Oval Office SUPREME COURT NOMINEE President Trump announced his new Supreme Court nominee to a national audience this week. Countless legal experts, former colleagues, and even fake news anchors hailed the President’s nomination, with one blue state editorial board noting that “Kavanaugh’s record defies challenge.” Now we need Americans to […]
President Trump: “NATO Stronger Now Than it Was 2 Days Ago” Thursday, US President Donald Trump that the United States’ commitment to NATO “remains very strong” after a summit in Brussels at which he said allies had made unprecedented commitments to increase spending on their own defense. “NATO is much stronger now than it was […]
President Trump: NATO Allies Should 2X Defense Spending Targets President Donald Trump has proposed 2X’ing the 2% defense spending targets for the NATO alliance. His suggestion was informal and made in a closed-door session of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO Summit in Brussels Wednesday, the suggestion was not designed ease tensions in a forceful […]
President Trump Hammering NATO Allies Right ‘Off the Bat’ In a very forceful start to his NATO visit, US President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that a pipeline project has made Germany “totally controlled” by and “captive to Russia” and blasted NATO allies’ defense spending, opening what is expected to be a Summit with a list […]
President Trump at NATO Summit, “…Just doesn’t work!” President Donald Trump is expected to have a forceful meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the start of a Summit of the military alliance. The President is expected to continue questioning wary NATO allies about their military spending during talks in Brussels. He Tweeted en […]
President Trump to NATO Allies: “You pay more, We pay less” Tuesday, US President Donald Trump asked if members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will repay the United States just before the upcoming NATO summit in Brussels. This follows his calls for NATO countries to “pay more” and for the US to “pay […]
President Trump: “Massive US Spending on NATO ‘Not Acceptable’” Monday, President Trump blasted North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members for what he described as their measly spending, asking them to increase their contributions to the alliance, reiterating past criticism ahead of his trip to a NATO Summit this week. “The United States is spending far […]
Commentary: Paul Ebeling on Wall Street $DIA, $SPY, $QQQ, $RUTX Looking at the major US stock market action as President Trump bears down hard on trade issues, focuses on SCOTUS pick, teeing up NATO demands and the Putin Summit. The market will tell us now if the Key moves Thursday and Friday on moderate volume will hold […]
The Trump Impact: NATO Allies are Hiking Defense Spending Sunday, US NATO Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison praised President Donald Trump for “making an impact,” and is the 1st in 3 administrations to get allies to hike their defense spending. In an interview Sunday, Amb. Hutchinson remarked “I’ve worked for 3 presidents, all of whom have […]
Commentary: Paul Ebeling on Wall Street $DIA, $SPY, $QQQ, $RUTX Looking at the major US stock market action as President Trump continues coming down hard on trade issues, and NATO next. Over the past few weeks we have a lot of pundit chatter about a market top, and stocks sold into the test during that frame. Notably, new […]
President Donald Trump: the Right Man, at the Right Time Promises Made, Promises Kept, Laser Focused on Making America Great Again A Supreme Court vacancy just opened, another, perhaps 2 coming, offering President Trump the unique opportunity to shape the court for decades. The current court handed him 2 favorable rulings this week alone. There’s […]
President Trump Set to Destroy the Crumbling European Union Recently, US President Donald Trump proposed French President Emmanuel Macron leave the European Union, suggesting he would get a better bilateral trade deal for France in return European officials told reporters the President approached the subject during a private meeting at the White House with President Macron […]
President Trump to NATO Nations, “Pay up!” Just ahead of a US-Russia Presidential Summit US President Trump has sent letters to NATO allies ahead of the July Summit in Brussels warning that Americans are tired of funding Europe’s defense and want NATO members to carry more of the load aka ‘Pay up!” The only letter […]
Countries Not Meeting NATO Obligations Will be “Dealt With” US President Donald Trump said Thursday that NATO members that do not contribute fully to the organization would be “dealt with,” and singled out Germany as one country he said was not doing enough. President Trump’s remarks came at a Cabinet meeting attended by the North […]
President Trump, “America’s Security Means ‘America First’” Monday, US President Donald Trump declared a new national security strategy, stressing his “America First” message of his 2016 campaign and faulting previous US leaders for failing to measure up to it and look out for the nation’s citizens. “Our leaders engaged in nation building abroad while they […]
US President Donald Trump’s Accomplishments in the Oval Officets In mid-May, I wrote an article entitled The Juggernaut & the Jerks, which spelled out the stupendous accomplishments of President Donald Trump in his first three months in office. The response was tremendous, many people thanking me for bringing to their attention hundreds of the president’s […]
NATO Continue to Attack Russia Two NATO jets which were intercepting Russian planes over neutral waters near Estonia briefly violated Finnish airspace, the alliance said. Two Spanish F-18 jets were scrambled on Tuesday from Estonia’s Amari Airbase to intercept Russian aircraft, identified as two MiG-31 jets and one Antonov AN-26 cargo plane, according to the […]
World War 3: The Battle for the Oceans Washington refuses to wake up to the new reality of a multipolar world; China and Russia are no longer willing to accept the American writ, those days are over, political commentator John Wight told RT. The British Royal Navy scrambled to shadow three Chinese warships passing through […]
NATO Promotes Nazi’s NATO is so Anti-Russian they are now even celebrating Adolf Hitler’s Nazi fighters for fighting Russia. NATO is hellbent on painting Russia as the world’s enemy, so much so they will even embrace the Nazi Party. NATO wants was, pure and simple, Europe Socialists and America’s DEEP STATE are pushing for conflict […]
World War 3: NATO Provoking Russia Since the end of the Cold War, Moscow hoped for international peace and cooperation, but certain decisions and actions of its Western partners have led to further “dividing lines” in Europe, and “have largely provoked” the Ukrainian crisis, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. In the early 1990s, […]
World War 3: NATO Sparks Dangerous Military Build Up NATO constantly undermines the strategic balance and fuels a new arms race, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Oliver Stone, calling NATO’s build-up a “big, glaring mistake.” In the second part of Oliver Stone’s Showtime series ‘The Putin Interviews’ aired on Tuesday night, the Russian president called […]
Trump Shames NATO Members in to Paying Fair Share Free Ride Ends for NATO Members as Trump saves American Taxpayers Billions of dollars. Canada’s overall defense budget will jump by almost three-quarters over the next 10 years, reaching $24.2 billion in 2026/27 – a significant increase from $13.9 billion in 2016/2017. He said the boost […]
Trump Should Dump NATO Next Trump has stuck to his pre-election promise and dropped out of the Paris Climate deal, one of the many platform promises that seen America elect him as president. Now that he has shown a willingness to break the traditions of globalization he should look to Dump the UN and NATO […]
NATO is Useless: America has More Enemies in Europe than Russia Thanks to Angela Merkel’s open door policy to refugees Europe has suffered a mass radicalization, America now has more individuals in Europe that would like to do the nation harm than any possible threat from Russia. The only place that a Russian threat exists […]
President Trump Rolling Out America First Policies President Donald Trump fired a shot over Germany’s bow Tuesday morning, issuing a Tweet continues to hammer the European nation for paying too little for NATO and complaining about the “massive” US trade deficit with the European nation. Follow Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump We have a MASSIVE trade […]
Germany is Already Feeling the Pain of President Trump’s Rebuke A funny thing, the Merkel/Hussein Obama Berlin rally was an arrogant mistake on their part. Germany a nation rebuilt by American taxpayers Monday is railing against US President Donald Trump, slamming his “short-sighted” policies that have “weakened the West” and hurt European interests worldwide. The […]
World War 3: Situation Report, ISIS In Asia, N. Korea Missile Hits Japan Waters, NATO Provoking Putin ISIS on the Rise in Muslim Parts of Asia The military says it has killed at least 61 Maute fighters, bringing the total death toll to over 100 people. The militants seemed significantly weakened by the ongoing military […]
World War 3: Why is NATO Trying to Provoke Russia NATO has moved in on Russia’s doorstep and is conducting drills that are openly aimed at dealing with Russian aggression. The World War 3 scenario that NATO has focused on is not Syria, North Korea, Iran or ISIS, it’s Russia. Why NATO feel that Russia […]
NATO Countries Paying Up after President Trump’s Public Scolding President Donald Trump Saturday tweeted that NATO member states have “agreed to step up payments considerably” and that “money is beginning to pour in” after his speech on Thursday scolding the nations’ leaders in Brussels. Follow Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump Many NATO countries have agreed to […]
Terror Attack in Kabul Near US Embassy Pajhwok Afghan News also cited reports saying there were “10 people killed and wounded.” At least four people were killed in the blast and 22 more injured, Reuters reported citing local health officials. A reported suicide bomb blast apparently targeting a convoy of NATO vehicles has hit the […]
President Trump’s 1st 12 Weeks, Defending Our Constitution +++ President Trump promised that he would put in place common sense reforms to eliminate waste so that the government better serves all Americans. There is duplication and redundancy everywhere. Billions and billions of dollars are being wasted on activities that are not delivering results for hardworking […]
A Defiant Hillary Clinton, Libya, and History Although Hillary Clinton lost her bid for the White House in part because of lingering public resentment over the 2012 terror attack that left 4 Americans dead in Benghazi, history will judge her harshly for her decisive role in the preceding US-led military intervention in Libya. In fact, […]
The EU on the Verge of Breaking Up UK, France, Hungary are no-shows as EU foreign ministers gather to consider ramifications of US election EU foreign ministers insisted Sunday they expected good relations with Donald Trump, after a crisis meeting that Britain, France and Hungary snubbed in a move that exposed rifts over the US […]
Donald Trump, “Hillary is pretty close to ‘unhinged’” Donald Trump boomeranging the negative remarks made against him, calling Democratic Presidential rival Hillary Clinton “pretty close to unhinged” and lacking the temperament to lead the country. “She’s really pretty close to unhinged,” Donald Trump said. “She’s like an unbalanced person.” At a campaign rally in Des […]