U.S. forces continue to ramp up their presence in the Caribbean. The USS Gerald R. Ford, the nation’s largest and most advanced aircraft carrier, is in the Caribbean. Numerous combat aircraft are now in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. U.S. drones continue to target alleged drug smugglers operating out of Venezuela while President Donald […]

Last week, President Donald Trump said, “I think the two Kevins are great.” Trump was referring to Kevin Warsh, a former governor of the Federal Reserve Board, the Fed, and Kevin Hassett, the head of Trump’s National Economic Council. The financial markets believe that Trump will select one of these two men as the next Fed chairman. At the moment, betting […]

The top-line numbers of the jobs report released Tuesday are mixed. The 64,000 jobs added in November beat the 40,000 expected, but they came on the heels of a net loss of 105,000 jobs in October, which were due to scheduled buyouts of 162,000 federal government workers that month. The unemployment rate also inched up […]