Buttigieg Disrupts the Gerontocrats' Party
The counting & reporting fiasco in Iowa continues, but it is clear from the early returns (62% of precincts) that 38 year old former Mayor Pete...
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2020: The Year of the Gerontocrats; Advantage Trump
The key to watch out for in the Iowa caucuses on Monday is whether Bernie Sanders wins. If he does, he will be looking like the presumptive...
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Bloomberg's Money Will Help the Democrats but Unlikely to Win Him the Nomination
Bloomberg has Democratic positions on most issues but the party has no particular fondness for billionaires, even self-made entrepreneurial ones....
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Weekly Oil Views: Crude Collapses in Trade War-Led Market Meltdown
Investors dumped stocks and other risk assets, including oil, and fled into the safe havens of US dollar, the yen and gold last week, as the US and...
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Roaring Labour Market Despite Renewed Signs of Broad-Based Weakness in ISM
The first two data points for April 2019 were contradictory -- with a powerful surge in non-farm payrolls (263,000 net new jobs, far ahead of...
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