[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets051711.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Thomas de Waal to discuss the modern Chechnya in a post-war environment where suspicions are high
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. U.S. borrowing exceeds the debt limit The U.S. Treasury Dept. reported that new debt auctions of $72 billion will push the debt past the debt limit by Tuesday morning, meaning that the Treasury can’t
Don’t Hurt Me September 15, 2012 New York Times – President Obama has petitioned a Virginia Superior Court judge to issue a restraining order against Fox News contributor Brit Hume prior to tonight’s Presidential debate at James Madison University. Obama
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are going to have to account for their actions on Sunday, after firing on unarmed protesters crossing into Israel from Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, an action that is being described as a violation of international
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Euro crisis talks thrown into disarray by Strauss-Kahn rape charge Dominique Strauss-Kahn (Reuters) The juiciest story to come out over the weekend was the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn on sexual assault charges. Strauss-Kahn is
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Austerity protesters clash with police in Athens, Greece, during nationwide strike Exploding petrol bombs during clashes with riot police in Athens on Wednesday Police clashed with protesters in Athens and Thessaloniki in Greece on
Syria might not be elected to the U.N.’s Human Rights Council after all. Syria has been poised for some time to be elected by the U.N. General Assembly to the “Arab seat” on the Human Rights Council. However, with Syria’s
Why has the Food Safety Modernization Act (S510) encountered opposition from the Tea Partiers and their unlikely ally, the hippy, natural food, organic farmer, granola crowd? Look at the history of the FDA and see if they truly have the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Iran’s Ahmadinejad acquiesces to Khamenei The winner — Khamenei meets with members of the High Council of Mayors (leader.ir) Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahamadinejad has acquiesced in his bitter dispute with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Link fixed. This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Muslim-Christian clashes in Cairo kill 10 Egypt’s cabinet is in crisis talks after clashes between Muslims and Christians killed 10 people (6 Muslims and 3 Christians, according to state television) and injured
Libya’s rebels in Misurata suffered a major setback early Saturday, when Gaddafi’s forces breached Nato’s no-fly zone and bombed fuel storage tanks, causing them to explode and burn, according to VOA. Fuel depot explosion in Misrata Libya (AP) It’s not
Aside from Taliban extremists, Al Qaeda fundamentalists in Yemen and some unbalanced individuals elsewhere, it is pretty difficult to find anyone who empathized with Osama Bin Laden or considered his death to be the world’s loss. And yet shortly after
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Greece denies the rumors that it’s leaving euroland Friday was another one of those days where all you can do is just shake your head in disbelief. It all started with a Der Spiegel
It all started on Sunday evening, when a dramatic international price collapse began when silver fell 12% in Asian markets, according to Barrons (Access). After reaching $48.35 last week on Friday, by Thursday it had fallen almost 30% to $34.95.
Hamas, the Palestinian terror group that runs Gaza, is mourning the death of Osama bin Laden. He is a “martyr” to these jihadists. And Hamas has just concluded a pact with the so-called Palestinian Authority (PA), or Fatah, the group
From Poynter: Reuters White House photographer Jason Reed describes how the president made his speech to a single TV camera, then immediately after finishing, he pretended to speak for the still cameras. Reed writes: “As President Obama continued his nine-minute
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Greece’s bond yields fall from 26% to 24.78% During the month of April, Greece’s 2-year bond yields — the interest rates demanded by investors to lend money to Greece for two years — jumped
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Nato searches for drifting mines near Misrata, Libya Aid ships are unable to reach port at Misrata in Libya, because Gaddafi forces have planted mines. Nato minesweepers have destroyed two of three mines laid
Let this be a lesson to our current President. A Muslim man kills thousands of your countrymen, then you treat his remains with undue respect, and in the Muslim world what does it gets you? Islamic leader condemns bin Laden
Angry supporters of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi staged revenge attacks on Sunday, burning and looting the U.S., U.K., French, Italian and Qatari embassies in Tripoli on Sunday, according to AP. The UN was forced to evacuate its foreign staff from
Even as other liberal states face the music of unfunded union pensions and benefits, Connecticut’s governor plans to do things his way. Democrat Governor Dannel Malloy, and his majority in the state legislature, have agreed on a budget that will
Wednesday’s announcement of a Fatah-Hamas reconciliation, and plans for a unity government, has thrown international Mideast politics into disarray — or perhaps I should say “further disarray,” because it’s been in disarray for a long time. (See “28-Apr-11 News —
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. A terrorist explosion in Marrakesh, Morocco, kills 14 people Marrakesh, Morocco, bombing An explosion, the suspected work of a suicide bomber, took the lives of 14 people in a popular cafe in a cultural
For the second time since the Egyptian upheaval began, the pipeline bringing natural gas from Egypt to Israel (and Jordan) has been shut down because of sabotage. The explosion took place early Wednesday morning rocked the area and caused 65-foot
