Several times over the past couple of weeks we've written about various Trump 'flip-flops' on several key issues that took center stage during the 2016 campaign (see: "Trump Flips On Five Core Campaign Promises In Under 24 Hours").
Authored by Martin Armstrong via ArmstrongEconomics.com,
A quick glance at the soaring Italian stock market and one would have faith in the future of the euro, with Alitalia just a 'storm in a teacup'. However, bond traders are as worried about political uncertainty as ever with Italian bond risk surging to over 3 year highs.
As Bloomberg reports, the FTSE MIB Index is trading near a 15-month high after ex-Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resoundingly won back the leadership of the Democratic Party.
Authored by Dennis Prager via TruthRevolt.org,
"If college presidents, mayors and police chiefs won’t stop left-wing mobs, other Americans will."
In a recent column, I made the case that Americans are fighting the Second Civil War. The deep chasm that has opened up between the left - not liberals, the left - and the rest of the country is so wide and so unbridgeable that there is no other way to describe what is happening. But I noted that at least thus far, unlike the First Civil War, this war is not violent.
Following Hillary Clinton's earlier proclamation that she "was on the way to winning before Jim Comey's letter and 'Russian' Wikileaks... scared off late voters," it appears President Trump has his own perspective on how he won the greatest upset election in US history...
FBI Director Comey was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds! The phony...
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2017