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OPINION - Donald Trump vs Wall Street is the showdown of the century

The President's aggressive tariff strategy is causing economic uncertainty and impacting the stock market

Evening Standard · Mar 12, 2025

LBJ's daughter Luci watched him sign voting rights bill, then cried when Supreme Court weakened it

Luci Baines Johnson watched her father, President Lyndon Johnson, sign the Voting Rights Act in 1965, and she recalls asking him why the ceremony was in the U.S. Capitol instead of the White House

The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2023

OPINION - The Standard View: Absent economic growth, Britain’s debt burden will go in only one direction

“A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money,” former US senator Everett Dirksen once reportedly quipped. He had yet to see the UK in 2023.

Evening Standard · Apr 25, 2023