By Rick Manning If there is any part of government that America assumed, indeed prayed, works it is the Secret Service.  These very special men and women whose sworn duty is to protect the President and Vice President of the United States have had a very bad […]

By Robert Romano One of mainstays in the postwar economy, and in particular, the post-gold standard economy after 1971 has been the dollar’s unchallenged status as the world’s reserve currency. It has been called the exorbitant privilege . At the time, as the story goes, to help resolve to the 1973 oil shock, Richard Nixon convinced Saudi Arabia to only accept dollars for payment of oil in return for protecting […]