Is inflation over? Will interest rates be coming down soon? Some economists reading their stat sheets and perhaps their tea leaves are pointing to future trends that will be bringing inflation in many of the G7 countries under control by the end of the year. However, central bankers have thrown a damp towel over investor
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Since the famous ship sank in April, 1912, there have been at least seventeen attempts to put together an expedition to find the wreck. Many of these attempts seemed credible at the time, but most of them failed owing to a lack of funding. Finally, after failing to find the sunken ship in a 1977
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Recent headlines have pointed to the apparent use of espionage balloons by the Chinese over U.S. airspace. Other parts of the world, including Latin America and China itself, have reported sightings of high-flying balloons drifting over their airspace. All these balloons may or may not have been involved with espionage, but they did demonstrate the
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Much has been made in the media lately about classified government documents turning up in the homes and offices of two presidents and one vice-president. These documents were supposed to be turned over to the National Archives for proper retention and disposition after their use. The handling and retention of classified documents in a special
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He’s been called the world’s greatest lover. He was certainly a major womanizer, having over a hundred affairs with different women. In many cases his partners were what would be considered underage by today’s standards, and some of his liaisons involved women who were emotionally or psychologically unstable. He was an adventurer looking for pleasure
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To determine the worst U.S. president in history, some criteria must be selected as popular presidents are not always good presidents, and good presidents are not always popular. It would be impossible for any president to make every person in the country happy all the time with the difficult and sometimes divisive decisions that are
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A few years after the end of World War II, George Marshall, a former general who became the U.S. Secretary of State, put together an aid package to help the economies of the war-torn countries in Europe to rebuild. This package was referred to as the Marshall Plan. As another war in Europe is now
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In today’s world we are familiar with giant international corporations that dominate industry, commerce, and technology. But one of the largest in history dates back to the year 1600 in England—The British East India Company. It rose to become not only a trading corporation, but a nation-state as it reaped massive profits primarily from places
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The Berlin Wall was arguably the most significant symbol of the Cold War. After the end of World War II, Germany became a divided country between the Soviet Union in the east, and Western powers. Before long, tensions between the Soviet Union and the Western powers began to increase over disputes surrounding the administration of
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In May of 1845, Sir John Franklin led an expedition of two British Navy ships to seek out the waterway through the North American Continent that would connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. They never returned. It’s a mystery to this day as to what exactly happened to them. Passageway for East/West Commerce: Both the
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