Janet Yellen: Covid stimulus may have contributed ‘a little bit’ to inflation

Janet Yellen: Covid stimulus may have contributed ‘a little bit’ to inflation

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Wednesday that the stimulus spending signed into law by President Joe Biden to aid the U.S. recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic may have contributed “a little bit” to the country’s subsequent inflation woes. But the widespread rise in prices that marred the Democrat’s administration was mostly “a supply-side phenomenon” caused…

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https://www.rt.com/news/610587-blinken-trump-greenland-bad/Top US diplomat comments on Trump’s Greenland plan

https://www.rt.com/news/610587-blinken-trump-greenland-bad/Top US diplomat comments on Trump’s Greenland plan

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke against the incoming president’s idea US President-elect Donald Trump’s idea of taking Greenland is not good and will never actually happen, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. Trump has argued that US control over the Arctic island is a matter of national security and has refused to…

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Taliban refute Trump’s claims on US financial aid to Afghanistan

Taliban refute Trump’s claims on US financial aid to Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD —  Taliban leaders in Afghanistan on Wednesday denied President-elect Donald Trump’s assertions that they have received billions of dollars in U.S. financial aid since regaining control of the country. Hamdullah Fitrat, the deputy Taliban spokesperson, responded to Trump’s claims by asserting that the Kabul administration neither anticipates nor seeks any assistance from the United…

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