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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Since its summer offensive, Ukrainian forces have pushed Russian troops back considerably from the territory they captured in first several months of the conflict. They have caused perhaps 100,000 Russian casualties, but have suffered a significant number of casualties as well. The momentum has shifted in their favor, but what would it take for them
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Last February, Vladimir Putin, Russia’s President, sent a 200,000 man army across the border from Russia into the sovereign nation of Ukraine. He apparently believed that the Ukrainian forces would fall easily, as the size and strength of his invading force has proven to be inadequate for the job it was assigned to do. In
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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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It’s been nearly seven months since Russia’s military forces invaded sovereign Ukraine. The response in Western Europe and North America has been to levy sanctions against Russia in an effort to hobble its economy, and force it to seek peace in the region. These sanctions have also unleashed a backlash from Russia that’s resulted in
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The economy is now in the midst of serious inflation unseen for over forty years. This condition could give way to a long, frustrating period of stagflation as occurred in the 1970’s. Those who were around in the developed world in those days got a good first-hand look at stagflation and what it can do
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As it looks as though a recession may be looming on the horizon, many investors are concerned about the depth and duration of a potential economic pullback. No two recessions are exactly alike, but it’s worthwhile nonetheless to take a look at what got our economy into the worst one ever in our history. Vulnerabilities:
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From the day it was first written, the Declaration of Independence went through quite a journey to reach the place where it resides today. In that it constituted a death warrant for all those who signed it, the protection and preservation of it maintained a higher priority for the Continental Congress and the founding fathers
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Inflation is upon us, and it won’t be going away very soon, echoes the sentiment in Washington D.C. as the Federal Reserve sets out to combat it. Whenever inflation passes above 4% and unemployment falls below 4%, the U.S. economy has gone through a recession, as per Lawrence Summers, Harvard professor and former Treasury Secretary.
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