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WILKES-BARRE — With primary elections looming, U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick will be back in town Friday along with Senator Ted Cruz supporting. McCormick and Cruz will be attending the Luzerne County Firehouse Breakfast from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. at 150 Watson Street. “Pennsylvania needs a true battle-tested America First fighter to fight for their values,” Cruz said via a release. “If you want a bad (expletive), U.S. Army veteran with backbone in the Senate, Dave McCormick is that leader who will go to Washington and work to defend and protect our values.”

Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Associates is doing far better in China than in the rest of the world.The $148 billion money manager raised about 900 million yuan ($136 million) for its second China fund in September, doubling assets, according to people familiar with the matter. Investors were partly drawn to its All Weather China strategy fund that boasted an annualized return of about 22% for the 22 months from inception to the end of July they said, declining to be identified discussing private matters.While the size of the onshore business remains tiny, the latest fundraising lifted assets under management to about...

At Bloomberg’s “The Year Ahead” summit, CEO David McCormick considers the persistent challenges America will face even after a recovery from the pandemic — rising inequality and competition for global leadership — while emphasizing how uncertainty in global markets and economies will force investors and policymakers to prepare for a wide range of potential outcomes.

“The U.S.-China relationship will be the most defining bilateral relationship for our lifetime,” David McCormick, the co-CEO of hedge fund powerhouse Bridgewater Associates and a former White House official, told a room at the Bloomberg Invest New York Conference on Tuesday. Speaking on the ongoing and increasingly hostile trade war between the world’s two largest economies, McCormick, a former U.S. Treasury undersecretary for international affairs under George W. Bush, warned that both the U.S. and China have “a lot of incentives” to reach a reasonable trade deal, but the latest developments in the negotiation are pushing things in the wrong...

EXCLUSIVE - Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas will team up on Thursday and Friday with Dave McCormick, one of the front-runners in Pennsylvania’s crowded, combustible, and expensive GOP Senate primary. [cut] Cruz’s two days of campaigning with McCormick will come just ahead of Pennsylvania’s May 17 primary, and it also comes less than a week after former President Donald Trump headlined a rally in western Pennsylvania with McCormick’s rival for the nomination, Mehmet Oz, whom Trump endorsed just a couple of weeks ago.

Increasing evidence suggests Joe Biden is running the American government for the benefit of the Chinese Communist Party.A Chinese state-run oil and gas company linked to the son of the President of the United States, Hunter Biden, hit record levels of production amidst President Biden’s decision to halt the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Sinopec, also known as China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, is a Chinese Communist regime-controlled oil and gas enterprise. Its “fully-owned subsidiary” Sinopec Marketing Company enjoyed nearly $1 billion in investment from Hunter Biden’s private equity firm BHR Partners.Finalized in March 2015, the investments from the...

Biden Admin Denies Parking Permit for Bikes in 3-Decade-Straight Veterans Motorcycle Ride on Washington, DC By C. Douglas Golden Published May 2, 2021 at 10:19am For 34 years, motorcycle-riding veterans and the supporters have flocked to Washington, D.C., on Memorial Day weekend for a ride to remember American prisoners of war and those missing in action. For 32 of those years, they’ve used the Pentagon’s parking lot as a staging point. This year, President Joe Biden’s Department of Defense might finally put an end to that. According to WJLA-TV in Washington, the Pentagon announced Friday that it’ll refuse to allow...

Senate leadership hammered out a bipartisan deal to block President Trump from possibly vetoing the defense authorization bill, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced early Tuesday. “The Democrat leader and I have agreed to unanimous request as follows: The Senate will meet for pro forma sessions only until Dec. 29 when we will return to session,” the top Republican said from the Senate floor.

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