Joe Biden’s economic record will be shaped by the Federal Reserve
The president-elect’s power to shape the Fed in turn is likely to be limitedNov 18th 2020BARACK OBAMA’S economic record was overshadowed by a torturously slow recovery from the global financial crisis. A premature turn to deficit-reduction left America’s recovery in the hands of a Federal Reserve that was doctrinally unprepared to engineer a rapid rebound…
As America pulls out of Afghanistan the Taliban fight on
Nov 18th 2020HERAT AND KABULTO REACH THE front line in Afghanistan’s civil war, you do not need to go far from the capital, Kabul. At a police outpost in Wardak province, about 20km outside the city on the main highway leading south, the Taliban’s encroachment is evident. The outpost is little more than a ring…
Gillian Anderson quit Hollywood after seeing ‘worst of the industry’
After enduring “the worst part of the industry,” Gillian Anderson quit Hollywood immediately moved to London in 2002. Gillian Anderson was on “The X-Files” — however, when one of the biggest TV shows of all-time went off the air in 2002, she made an audacious move and quit Hollywood. Rather than pursue another series or…