Posts by Kim Browne
Barclays beats first-quarter forecasts as Trump turmoil supercharges trading
[LONDON] Barclays booked a stronger than expected 19 per cent increase in first-quarter profit on Wednesday (Apr 30), as trading activity surged in the early months of US President Donald Trump’s tenure and the bank made progress on boosting its share of the lucrative UK lending market. The British bank’s profit before tax for January…
Read MoreEurope: Stoxx 600 clocks second consecutive monthly loss hit by tariff woes
[BENGALURU] European shares closed higher in a volatile session on Wednesday (Apr 30) as investors assessed key data around the world and corporate earnings, ending a sluggish month marred by US President Donald Trump’s erratic tariff policy. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index closed 0.5 per cent higher on Wednesday, helped by a 1.3 per cent…
Read MoreEven MAGA Is Disgusted by Trump’s “Kim Jong Il–Style” Cabinet Meeting
President Trump’s all-hands Cabinet meeting Wednesday to mark his 100 days in office was such a shameless display of fealty that even commentators on the far-right felt compelled to criticize it. Trump hosted a two hour-long televised meeting starring each of his Cabinet appointees. They all took turns going around the table talking about how…
Read MoreJudge Gives Powerful Warning While Freeing Pro-Palestine Protester
Thanks to the USPS’s cooperation, immigration officials now have access to photographs of the outside of envelopes and packages, as well as the postal service’s surveillance systems, including mail tracking, IP addresses, online account information, credit card data, and other financial information. While DHS has partnered with other agencies in areas such as taxes, housing,…
Read MoreTrump’s New MAGA Slogan: Kids Will Get Two Dolls and Not 30
Just one day after his commerce secretary claimed that the American Dream is a return to multigenerational factory serfdom, President Trump stated that parents might have to buy less toys for their kids while his destructive tariffs on China take effect. “[China] made a trillion dollars with Biden, a trillion dollars, even a trillion and…
Read MoreTrump Pulls the U.S. Post Office Into His Cruel Deportation Efforts
Thanks to the USPS’s cooperation, immigration officials now have access to photographs of the outside of envelopes and packages, as well as the postal service’s surveillance systems, including mail tracking, IP addresses, online account information, credit card data, and other financial information. While DHS has partnered with other agencies in areas such as taxes, housing,…
Read MoreMarco Rubio Brags About Ignoring the Courts in Abrego Garcia Case
But as of this week, Trump has seemingly decided to rope The New York Times into the alleged offense, claiming that the newspaper’s reporting that the case is “baseless” is tantamount to “tortious interference” and, apparently, worth its own lawsuit. Trump sued CBS for $10 billion after the interview, claiming that the different clips amounted…
Read MoreTrump Fumbles When Asked Why He Blamed Biden for Bad Economy
“I didn’t take over until January 20th,” Trump wrote. “Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden ‘Overhang.’ This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he…
Read MoreMissouri’s New Fight to Roll Back Abortion Age Restrictions
The group bringing the legal challenge, Right By You, is a free abortion-support text line that aims to be, for young people, “basically in their pocket as a resource,” executive director Stephanie Kraft Sheley told me by phone this week. “A young person is free to text us throughout their entire experience.” Sometimes, the text…
Read MoreHakeem Jeffries Reportedly Fed Up With Democrats’ Trips to El Salvador
“I didn’t take over until January 20th,” Trump wrote. “Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden ‘Overhang.’ This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he…
Read MoreRepublicans Move to Give Themselves More Power Over Entire Government
“I didn’t take over until January 20th,” Trump wrote. “Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden ‘Overhang.’ This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he…
Read MoreHow Trump Convinced El Salvador’s President to Take His Deportees
“I didn’t take over until January 20th,” Trump wrote. “Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden ‘Overhang.’ This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he…
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