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2019: An unpredictable, confrontational and financially ominous year

December 27, 2018 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

The global outlook for 2019 was already looking unpredictable and dangerously confrontational, but the firing of US Defense Secretary, the moderate retired general Jim Mattis makes it exponentially more so. During the past few months ‘America first’ President Donald Trump has dismissed all the top three reasonable American policy makers. First it was the State Department […]

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