And, the stock market — using the Dow Industrials — fails to make new highs. The U.S. economy grew at its slowest pace in two years the first quarter 2016, with GDP rising .5 percent, less than half the gain posted fourth quarter 2015. For some time, the U.S. was the shining star among world
According to the New York Times, Saudi Arabia recently told Obama administration officials and members of Congress that it could be forced to sell up to $750 billion in treasuries and other assets in the United States if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts
April 15 is behind us, and that gives a feeling of relief to those Americans who labored and toiled in 2015 to provide for themselves and their families while seeing billions of dollars confiscated from their earnings. (And, now they must keep records for years just in case they are later audited by the IRS.)