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Earlier this month, Larry Kudlow insisted that it is "it's incumbent on the U.S. government, no matter who's in power, to maintain the reserve currency status of the dollar." Kudlow laments that a toppling of the dollar from that perch "seems to be the direction we're going in." Kudlow's remarks came a day after Donald Trump declared that China is trying to displace the U.S. Dollar [sic] as the NUMBER ONE CURRENCY" and that if this occurs, it would be the biggest defeat for our Country [sic] in its history." Neither Trump nor Kudlow actually explain why maintaining reserve currency...

<p>September 6, 2002 -- Congress has lost patience with Martha Stewart in its probe of the ImClone insider-trading scandal and will take action against the domestic diva next week, sources told The Post.</p> <p>"We have reached the end of the road with respect to Martha Stewart," said Ken Johnson, spokesman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee.</p>

Embattled media mogul Martha Stewart is said to see a political conspiracy behind the deepening investigation into her questionable stock trades, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. "Martha really believes it is the Republicans who are behind this -- and they are chasing her for purely political reasons," a Stewart intimate said this weekend. "Martha told me that she believes they are doing the very same thing to her, they did to President Clinton. What Ken Starr did. She believes it is nothing short of a witch hunt! They are even digging into her private e-mails! They are demanding to know...

Martha probes widen Prosecutors look into possible obstruction of justice and false statements, reports say. June 26, 2002: 8:43 AM EDT NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Prosecutors have widened their investigation into Martha Stewart's sale of ImClone Systems stock to include possible obstruction of justice and making false statements in addition to insider trading allegations, newspapers reported Wednesday. Douglas Faneuil, the sales assistant to Stewart's broker, also has changed his account of what occurred with the sale of the stock, according to the Wall Street Journal. Faneuil initially backed up the explanation Stewart and Merrill Lynch broker Peter Bacanovic gave for...