Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the reelection of former President Trump would be the “end of democracy” in an interview released Saturday by The Guardian. “It will be the end of democracy, functional democracy,” Sanders said in the interview. The Vermont senator also said in the interview that he thinks that another round of Trump … Read more
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley traded attacks in a heated debate Wednesday night ahead of the Iowa caucuses next week. DeSantis and Haley were the only candidates on the CNN debate stage in Des Moines, Iowa. Former President Trump, who was the only other candidate to qualify for the debate, … Read more
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. On Monday, with the Iowa Caucus, the 2024 Presidential race officially begins. A year ago, Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and United Nations Ambassador under Donald Trump, seemed like a … Read more
Credit rating agency Fitch said Wednesday it expects US fiscal deficits to remain high this year, and that fiscal policy and governance implications of the presidential elections will be key issues for the country’s sovereign rating. Fitch last year downgraded the US government’s top credit rating to AA+ from AAA, citing fiscal deterioration and repeated down-the-wire debt ceiling negotiations. A major near-term shift … Read more
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. Three years after pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, the fallout continues to shape American politics, both on the campaign trail and in the courtroom. With Donald Trump leading the Republican field, conservative … Read more
How have we allowed one man to wreak so much havoc on our democracy? Years after Donald Trump was voted out of office, his destructiveness to our electoral system has become so infectious that those who loathe him are doing the work for him. In the past several months, dozens of legal challenges have sought … Read more
Happy New Year! It should be. After 2023’s 26.6% return, 2024 holds more in store. Fortunately, few are lampshade-on-head gleeful. Most investors remain skeptically timid, fretting about all those “risks” you hear abundantly. As Sir John Templeton legendarily said, “Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.” Today’s skepticism … Read more
2024 will be the biggest election year in history. About 4.2 billion people, or more than half of humanity, live in countries with upcoming elections. Can democracy survive it? That question may sound cynical. But, in the 21st century, romantic ideas of democracy are dying. The latest global reports show democracy contracting across every world … Read more
Former President Trump encouraged his supporters to “go out and vote” despite his leads in current polls at an event in Iowa Wednesday. The former president noted his leads in polls over fellow republican candidates including former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) before emphasizing the need to vote … Read more
BlackRock Chief Executive Larry Fink said Thursday that the firm was unfairly targeted by candidates in the fourth Republican presidential debate, calling it a “sad commentary on the state of American politics.” BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has faced a backlash from state pension plans in Republican-led Florida, Louisiana and Missouri for the firm’s … Read more
