Submitted by George Greenwood via The Foundation For Economic Education,
Brazil has faced a sharp change in its economic fortunes. Graft, mismanagement of growth dividends and protectionism has put dreams of a seat at the top table on hold.
At the heart of this regression has been the beleaguered president Dilma Rousseff.
Bernie Sanders wins Wyoming Democratic caucus, defeating Hillary Clinton, according to AP, extending his win-streak to seven states in a row. This brings the delegate count to Hillary 1292 vs Bernie's 1044 excluding super-delegates, which as we noted here, are far from a "lock" for Clinton if the Bernie Bus continues to show this kind of momentum.
Seven In A Row for Bernie - Idaho, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Wisconsin, and now Wyoming.
On Friday, Hillary Clinton sat down with Matt Lauer for a wide ranging interview. A number of topics came up, from Bernie Sanders, to Donald Trump, to walking a fictional tree lined street in Brooklyn.
As the British prime minister faces calls to resign, it turns out he isn’t the only member of the Cameron family under scrutiny. It has emerged that his wife Samantha Cameron’s ‘special adviser’ Rosie Lyburn is being paid £53,000 a year from the austerity-hit public purse to help organise her wardrobe and social life. The Independent reports: The aide – normally a position for people who help Government ministers – receives up to £53,000 for advising the prime minister’s 44-year-old wife, according to the Mail Online.
Authored by Darrel Delamaide via MarketWatch.com,
The mainstream media is misleading the public by adopting a “fuzzy math” in treating the delegate counts for the Democratic nominating convention as carved in stone.
Given its bias against Donald Trump, the media are happy to parrot the Republican establishment’s prediction that their convention in Cleveland will be an “open convention” — that is, open to manipulation by the apparatchiks and the rules they set.