Chris Fenn
- Aug 31, 2018
- 4 min
Cyber Attacks Prove Why Russia is an Adversary
Recently signed into law, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (NDAA) elects to label both China and Russia as competitors. This designation mirrors rhetoric employed in the National Security Strategy of the United States (NSS) published in December 2017 and by President Trump while conversing with leaders in the international community. Declining to deem Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin as adversaries, President Trump has faced bipartisan, y
Mark Lu
- Aug 7, 2018
- 4 min
How The GOP Tax Cuts may have doomed the economy
Two words: stock buybacks. In May, JPMorgan projected that in 2018, S&P 500 companies would invest about $1 trillion (with a "t") stock buybacks due to “savings on tax, strong earnings and the repatriation of cash,” according to MarketWatch’s Ciara Linnane. Companies that have committed to buybacks include Alphabet (Google’s parent company), PepsiCo, Wells Fargo, and Cisco. Just today, Goldman Sachs released a report that this year’s buyback total may reach $1 trillion. Last