While the Fed's traditionally drab Beige Book described the US economy in conventional terms, growing "at a modest to moderate" pace, one relatively new development was the recurring complaint by employers that they are having an increasingly more difficult time in finding qualified and skilled workers to fill empty positions.
Earlier this morning Vice President Pence offered up one of the Trump administration's most stern warnings yet to North Korea saying that the U.S. would "defeat any attack and meet any use of conventional or nuclear weapons with an overwhelming and effective American response." Per The Hill:
"The United States of America will always seek peace but under President Trump, the shield stands guard and the sword stands ready."
Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,
Authored by Antonius Aquinas,
It is altogether fitting that the US attack on a Syrian airport, the dropping of a MOAB on defenseless Afghanistan, and the potential outbreak of nuclear war with North Korea have all come in the very month one hundred years earlier that an American president led the nation on its road to empire. President Trump’s aggressive actions and all of America’s previous imperialistic endeavors can ultimately be traced to Woodrow Wilson’s disastrous decision to bring the country into the First World War on April 6, 1917.
The enemy of my enemy has safe air bases.