Posts by Kim Browne
Trump’s pressure on Fed independence holds global risk, ECB’s Rehn says
[HELSINKI] President Donald Trump’s escalating attacks on the US Federal Reserve could have substantial and global knock-on effects on the financial markets and the real economy, ECB policymaker Olli Rehn said in a speech on Thursday (Aug 28). Uncertainty surrounding the world’s most important monetary authority, the Federal Reserve, has risen this year as Trump…
Read MoreMost Gen Zs lack retirement plans and overlook insurance: Prudential Singapore
[SINGAPORE] While it is never too late or too early to start planning for retirement, about seven in 10 Gen Zs in the Republic aged 16 to 28 said they do not have a retirement plan. Yet, more than half are confident that they will be able to retire well and cover daily necessities, healthcare…
Read MoreTranscript: “We Can Prevail” over Trump By Building a Broad Coalition
Mitchell: No, no. In most urban areas you have to pretty wealthy to live the lifestyle that most people think of as the regular middle-class lifestyle. So even people in New York City and other urban areas that are making six digits are having to make really hard choices in order to afford the city.…
Read MoreCDC Director Remarkably Ousted After Less Than a Month on the Job
The Defense Department lost the most workers—more than 55,000 federal civilian employees were given the chop, HuffPost reported. The Treasury Department also suffered major cuts, losing more than 30,000 employees, as did the Department of Agriculture, which lost more than 21,000 people. Those impacts have already been felt across the country. So far this year,…
Read MoreMinneapolis Mayor Slams Anti-Trans Hate After School Shooting
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey excoriated transphobes for tying a mass shooting to their hateful ideology. At a press conference Wednesday about the Annunciation Catholic School shooting Wednesday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called out groups and individuals for attacking the trans community in the wake of the horrific event. “Anybody who is using this as an…
Read MoreRFK Jr Just Made It Very Hard to Get a Covid Vaccine
Breakfast Club host Charlamagne says of Hakeem Jeffries: “I call him AIPAC Shakur.” “I just don’t think he stands for anything.” pic.twitter.com/BGuqattvk7 — Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) August 27, 2025 “Well, well … we need to talk about messaging,” Jordan responded, stopping Charlamagne in his tracks. “I actually went to the Capitol and had a meeting…
Read MoreTrump Admin Spouts BS as It Takes Over D.C.’s Union Station
“I would have much more respect for Pritzker if he’d call me up and say, ‘I have a problem, can you help me fix it?’ I would be so happy to do it,” Trump ranted. “I don’t love—not that I don’t have… I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the…
Read MoreTranscript: GOP Senator Shocked at How Badly Trump Screwing His Voters
Thorne: Stunned that someone like Senator Murkowski is surprised by this, but also it makes sense. This is actually what we’re seeing from a lot of voters in rural Virginia this year. Part of what our organization has been doing for the last several months is calling folks who are registered to vote but haven’t…
Read MoreSingPost starts corporate service for US parcels after de minimis tariff exemption ends
Senders will be billed US duties under the new service, which is not available to individuals [SINGAPORE] Singapore Post (SingPost) has introduced a new service for corporate customers to send parcels to the US after suspending standard postal services for commercial items sent there. The latter came into effect from Monday (Aug 25), ahead of…
Read MoreTrump Just Said Exactly What a Dictator Would Say
But her treatment does stand in stark contrast to the publishing giant’s recent history of documenting the country’s first ladies. Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, and Jill Biden all appeared in Vogue while their husbands were president, sometimes more than once. President Barack Obama also graced the magazine’s cover three times, while President Joe Biden was…
Read MoreIn Funniest Twist, Trump Now Wants to Nationalize Lockheed Martin
As the Trump administration contemplates further incursions into the private sector following its Intel deal, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the defense industry could be in the administration’s sights. When the administration acquired a 10 percent stake in the tech company Intel last week—a move that began with the president attempting to get its CEO…
Read More“Wake Up”: George Conway Issues Stark Warning About Trump
A high profile conservative lawyer is calling Donald Trump’s political strategy what it is: “authoritarianism.” George Conway, the ex-husband of Trump’s first term adviser Kellyanne Conway, warned that Americans need to “wake up” to the Trump administration’s dangerous maneuverings, citing recent targets of Trump’s retribution campaign as evidence that the country’s typical backstops were caving…
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