"This toxic mix – rising interest rates and record high consumer debt in relationship to disposable income – has now started to bite the most vulnerable consumers once again. And for them, debt service is getting very difficult."
"While making 100-year loans to an insolvent country with a long history of default is especially insane, it’s important to realize there are a lot of 'Argentinas' out there today."
"Hundreds of federal, state, local, and even some campus law enforcement departments across the country have trained in some capacity with the Israeli forces now gunning down Palestinian protesters in droves."
"Iran remains one of 33 countries, including the United States, that mete out the ultimate punishment for drug offenses -- but it dramatically raised the quantities of drugs needed to merit the death penalty."
"It is unsettling that so many innocent people are being killed by U.S. forces, especially in wars that are not authorized by Congress and have an increasingly tenuous connection to American security."
"It’s the culmination of a long, arduous effort to legalize medical marijuana in the Sooner state."
"Who is going to bail out the government?"
"Seeking to soothe feathers ruffled by comments from the US ambassador to Berlin, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert only made it worse by citing the Allied landings in Normandy as an example of US ties with Germany."
"Some wondered if Mario Draghi wasn't allowing Italian bonds to tumble without ECB intervention, simply to 'pressure' the domestic political process against the formation of a populist, Euroskeptic cabinet."
"The two men ensnared in Ukraine’s 'clever' ruse to weed out Putin’s assassins have turned out to be former Ukrainian counterintelligence officials, who despise Russia, and pledge allegiance to radical, ultra-right neo-Nazi group 'Right Sector'."