The Hamilton County Board of Commissioners are making plans for phase four of maintenance and facility improvements for Hamilton County Schools. At Wednesday’s meeting, commissioners discussed a resolution that would set aside $13.5 million for improvements. That allocation includes repairs at the Chattanooga School for Arts and Science and to bring a turf field to…
IT IS the first time that an American president has tried to sack a governor on the board of the Federal Reserve. The credibility of the central bank is one of the underpinnings of America’s world-beating economy. And yet, although dollar assets weakened a little on the news, financial markets are taking it all in…
BEFORE HIS meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Donald Trump reportedly called Norway’s finance minister to float the idea that he should win a Nobel prize once he had secured peace in Ukraine. Instead, the summit has handed Mr Putin what he wanted: a red carpet and a chance to boast that Russia’s isolation is…
MORE than 100 days after President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day”, the new global trading order is becoming clear. It is a system of imperial preference. Canada has angered the president, partly by planning to recognise Palestine as a state, and so it faces a duty of 35%. Because Mr Trump reckons that exporters unfairly cheat…
WHEN Donald Trump is making economic policy, a reprieve is little more than a pause for breath. In February investors cheered when he postponed tariffs on Canada and Mexico; by April he was torching the global trading system. So it is with his latest about-face. On April 22nd the president declared that he had no…
PRESIDENT DONALD Trump’s bullying of America’s allies and neighbours may appeal to the maga base. Unfortunately, investors feel otherwise. Confidence in the prospects for the American economy has been sapped and financial markets are sinking. The S&P 500 index of American stocks has dropped by 9% since its peak in February. Because Mr Trump’s on-again,…
THE BALL, so America’s secretary of state said on March 11th, is back in Vladimir Putin’s court. Ukraine had just agreed at talks in Jeddah to an American plan for a month-long ceasefire, and in return America has already restarted the flow of weapons and information that Donald Trump cut off following his spectacular Oval…
DONALD TRUMP’S foreign policy works on a simple formula: the more you depend on America the worse he can treat you. That is the lesson the world should take from a devastating week, which culminated in an announcement on March 2nd that America is pausing all military aid to Ukraine until it accepts Mr Trump’s…
SINCE THE early months of the war in Ukraine three long years ago, the front line on the battlefield has hardly moved. But in the Oval Office on February 28th, as Donald Trump and J.D. Vance attacked Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s defences crumbled in a few devastating minutes. Source link
DONALD TRUMP’S first two weeks in the Oval Office have featured plenty of jaw-dropping moments. Even so, his proposal of an American “takeover” of Gaza on February 4th was extraordinary. He combined sinister ideas—ethnic cleansing and a lethal indifference towards Palestinians’ rights—with unorthodox improvisation over one of the world’s most intractable problems. In his first…