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  • Biden should signal to the Fed that it's okay to raise rates next year

    11/22/2021 12:07:19 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 20 replies
    The Hill ^ | 11/22/2021q | NICHOLAS SARGEN
    With President Biden reportedly reappointing Jerome Powell to a second term as Federal Reserve chair and make Lael Brainard as vice chair, he will have an opportunity to meet with them privately. So why am I suggesting Biden should do what no other U.S. president has done and indicate that he wants the Fed to raise rates in an election year? To be sure, throughout the Fed’s history, the opposite tack has been more common: Presidents Johnson, Nixon and, most recently, Trump all jawboned the Fed to keep interest rates low to support the economy and their reelection prospects. The...
  • 14-year-old Yazidi boy killed in Turkish airstrike laid to rest

    04/27/2017 7:34:24 PM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 21 replies
    KOM News ^ | 27 April 2017 16:35 CEST | none stated
    14-year-old Siviyan Casim was killed in the Turkish airstrike on 25 April 2017 on Shingal, Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq. A 14-year-old boy who was killed in Turkish airstrikes on Shingal (Sinjar), in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, has been laid to rest.Siviyan Casim was killed as at least 8 airstrikes, which Turkey said targeted Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) bases, struck the Yazidi homeland on Tuesday morning.Mother kidnapped by ISAccording to Kurdish Roj News agency, the boy’s father and brother joined the Shingal Resistance Units (YBS), affiliated to the PKK, after the Islamic State (IS) kidnapped the boy’s mother in the onslaught...