

President Trump’s schedule (EST): 11:30 AM: Signs an anti-human trafficking bill, H.R.2200; 12:00 PM: Daily intelligence briefing; 1:00 PM: Attends the Senate Republican policy luncheon, S-207, The Capitol; and 3:00 PM: Meets with congressional leaders in the...
Letter from Washington

Trump won’t win the Nobel Peace Prize – whether or not he deserves it
There we have it. The date and time for Donald Trump’s meeting with the Kim Jong-un are set. It was announced when Trump’s newly appointed secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, returned from Pyongyang with three Americans who had been imprisoned in North Korea. The summit...
Trump won’t win the Nobel Peace Prize – whether or not he deserves it

The seductive simplicity of blaming Trump’s win on Cambridge Analytica
For the last two years, on both sides of the Atlantic, liberals and other concerned citizens have spent their time searching for an answer to the agonising, appalling, question “How did this happen?” How, for the love of God, could the United States have elected...
The seductive simplicity of blaming Trump’s win on Cambridge Analytica

Forecasts by George Costanza
In the 86th episode of Seinfield, George, egged on by Jerry and fed up with his lack of romantic and professional success, decides that to succeed he must from now on do ‘the opposite’. It is a triumph, immediately bringing him both a beautiful girlfriend...
Forecasts by George Costanza

The anatomy of a British pound collapse
It took a North Korean ballistic missile launch and Hurricane Harvey’s devastation of the $500 billion Houston/Galveston/Corpus Christi economy to push sterling higher to 1.2950 against the US dollar. While the British pound is the most undervalued G-10 currency on...
The anatomy of a British pound collapse