New anti-protest laws are incompatible with American democracy
Apr 08, 2017 05:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Civil protest is a crucial tenet of any free democracy and in the US its protected by the Constitutions first amendment. But a wave of new anti-protest laws may infringe on this hard-won constitutional right one that...

It was Big Tobacco, not Trump, that wrote the post-truth rule book
Apr 07, 2017 08:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
(Corrected typo on seventh paragraph) After two chaotic months as president, Donald Trump is widely credited with rewriting the political rule book. We are witnessing Trumps new era of post-fact politics, where...
US under Trump Series: Trump-Xi meeting would determine inflation or deflation for global economy
Apr 06, 2017 11:31 am UTC| Commentary Economy
The US President Donald Trump is set to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping today and they will hold meetings over the next two days in President Trumps Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. The future of the global economy...

US under Trump Series: Growth in business sales very encouraging
Apr 04, 2017 11:27 am UTC| Commentary Economy
What drives stocks (other than cheap funding from FED), is their earnings, some which investors get returned in form of dividends and buybacks, rest of which goes into the books as reserves. And what drives earnings higher...
US under Trump Series: Close Obama aide requested unmasking of Trump associated in Intel report
Apr 04, 2017 09:11 am UTC| Commentary Economy
After weeks of political drama, it has now been confirmed that a close Obama associate, the former Presidents National Security Advisor Susan Rice is the person behind the unmasking of Trump associates. On March 4th, Trump...
US under Trump Series: Measure Trump’s promise with trade numbers
Apr 04, 2017 08:39 am UTC| Commentary Economy
As discussed earlier, we would use jobs numbers, especially from the manufacturing sector to measure the success of President Trump in keeping his promises. There would be some other measures too and the most important of...
US under Trump Series: Measure Trump’s promise with jobs data
Apr 04, 2017 07:18 am UTC| Commentary Economy
During the campaign, President Donald Trump has promised many a thing and what he is betting on is that if he succeeds in delivering on those promises, the people who voted for him in 2016 will do the same in his...