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Trump's Gamble On Afghanistan: What It Means
Monday, August 21, 2017 - 9:49pm | 850Read More...(Editor’s note: The author covered the Afghanistan war for The Associated Press in 2003) President Donald Trump asked Americans to support his decision to put more U.S. troops in the rugged terrain of Afghanistan, perhaps staking his imperiled presidency on bringing peace to a place that has...
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Defense Contractors Have Strong Q1 Amid Trump's Pro-Defense Rhetoric
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 12:29pm | 910Read More...The saber rattlings from the White House during President Donald Trump’s first 97 days in office have coincided with a boom in defense stocks, a stretch that includes first-quarter earnings exceeding expectations for most of the big contractors. The exception is Lockheed Martin Corporation (...
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Where Is All The Market Fear?
Sunday, April 23, 2017 - 1:15pm | 718Read More...The United States dropped a 21,600-pound Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan. The attack is the first time the U.S. has used the so-called “Mother of all Bombs” in combat, and news of the bombing came just days after President Donald Trump authorized bombing...
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Erratic Trump Prompts Investors To Seek Safety In Silver, Gold
Thursday, April 20, 2017 - 12:06pm | 507Read More...Precious metals were the best-performing commodities of the first quarter, and some analysts believe the volatile nature of President Donald Trump’s first months in office played a big part. A composite of the active month futures prices of the four exchange-traded precious metals moved...
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War-Torn Afghanistan Sits Stubbornly Atop Vast Reserves Of Battery-Grade Lithium
Monday, April 10, 2017 - 10:49am | 582Read More...The world’s potential reliance on lithium — the silvery white metal used to make batteries powering electric vehicles, laptops and cell phones — has turned investor attention to unstable Afghanistan, which is sitting on vast deposits. “We have more than enough lithium in the...
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These Awesome Charts Highlight Just How Diversified (or Homogeneous) Some Nations' Exports Are
Friday, April 12, 2013 - 3:36pm | 136Read More...Ever wondered what the leading exports of Antarctica or North Korea or the Solomon Islands are? Well you've come to the right place. Courtesy of the Wikimedia Commons and the Observatory of Economic Complexity, Benzinga has compiled an array of export tree maps from countries and regions around the...
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Are Iran Fears Totally Baseless?
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 10:11am | 708Read More...There has been a lot of discussion lately about the rising threat of Iran becoming the new top enemy of the United States. Especially, the Republican presidential candidates have voiced their concerns over Iran's nuclear program and actions to shut the Strait of Hormuz, which is a main shipping...
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Last Troops To Return From Iraq This Month
Monday, December 12, 2011 - 4:40pm | 551Read More...Thank God. Or rather, thank Barack Obama, who finally, mercifully, years-later-than-necessary pulled the plug on the pointless war in Iraq. The last few thousand troops still stationed in Iraq will fly out of the country on December 31. That date will mark the end of a nine-year campaign that...
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Afghanistan, Vietnam...Same ****, Different Decade
Monday, October 10, 2011 - 2:16pm | 1188Read More...Ten years is a long time to chase ghosts through the desert. Last week, America blew out the candles on the 10th birthday cake for the War in Afghanistan. Not a soul was in the mood for celebrating. Well, perhaps Darth Cheney, who has never met a war he did not support enthusiastically. (Except,...
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Don't Blame Bush for Obama's Failures
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 10:08am | 689Read More...I get a dizzying sense of déjà vu whenever I hear what's left of President Barack Obama's supporters blame the current state of the economy on former President George W. Bush. As the U.S. economy fell into recession early in Bush's presidency, many Republicans put the blame on former President Bill...
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How to Profit from Improving Relations between India and Pakistan
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 10:02am | 447Read More...Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar met on Wednesday to discuss a range of issues. Although no major political breakthroughs have come from the meeting, the two sides plan to improve trade and travel conditions between the two long-term antagonists...
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Trading a US Military Withdrawal
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 3:52pm | 466Read More...Following the attacks of September 11th, the U.S. began a staggeringly large military campaign, the total cost of which could total nearly a third of the GDP of the United States. Reuters cites a study by Brown University, alleging that—all things considered—the total cost of the war-on-terror...
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Ron Paul Should Be The Next President Of The United States
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 6:38pm | 1286Read More...The United States of America may potentially be on the precipice of a Greek-style debt crisis within a few years, and our economy is increasingly looking like it may be at risk of entering another recession - and the Financial Crisis 2.0 could make the Great Recession look tame. Simply put, the Fed...
