Weekly Perspective

In celebration of our anniversary, our team decided to feature the Atlantic Festival Ideas Stage here and throughout our Properties as we look forward to to serve:

It is the eve of the first US Presidential Debate here in the United States as we went to press.   Our team curated a sampling of the discourse over Social Media this Past Week courtesy the Financial Times, Defense One, The Bulwark as we also hereby note two articles courtesy the New York Times & New Yorker On the state of America:   Politics Trump links Supreme Court vacancy to a disputed election result President says Senate must approve ninth justice to avoid split ruling over contested outcome SEPTEMBER 23, 2020   by Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington World Democrats prepare $2.4tn stimulus plan in push to kickstart talks Smaller relief package may still be too high for Republicans SEPTEMBER 24, 2020   by James Politi in Washington Why the SCOTUS nomination could move quickly, beginning Oct. 12 The week of Oct. 12 marks the likely start of confirmation hearings for the next nominee to the Supreme Court. Republican sources on Capitol Hill signaled the process will begin mid-Oct

 

 

  Justice Ruth Baden Ginsburg passed away.   Our team hereby presents the following as a tribute to her memory as our team will continue to assess the transformation of the US Supreme Court: We also present a discourse of the debate that ensued in the aftermath of the passing of Justice Ginsburg:

As our team continues its' on-going assessment of the US Election Scene, we hereby present the following courtesy Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah on the week that was: This is as this occurred this week: Fed commits to interest rates near zero until economy is at 'maximum employment' In its last meeting before the November elections, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday did as expected and announced that it will maintain a target interest rate at or near zero percent until the economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, which could take years to accomplish. Read the full story here. As we continue our assessment of a POST-COVID World, we present this snapshot of the expected recovery courtesy the team at the Visual Capitalist:  This is as we continue to assess the state of the US Senate Race as the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee warned that the US Senate control may change hands : Democratic Senate majority likelier due to Maine's ranked-choice voting sy

  As we noted historic developments earlier with the signing of the Abraham Accords, there has been a lot going on in Iran. Iran executed a championship wrestler, Navid Afkari, in spite of pleadings for mercy from throughout the World.   This is as the leading Iranian Civil Rights Lawyer, Nasrin Soutodeh, continues her hunger strike and another one of the leading activists, Mohammad Nourizad, is in poor health based on the report we received from his wife.    Our team is continuing to assess it all as we leave all with a sense of the true realities in Iran right now: Reza Pahlavi, the Son of the Late Shah of Iran, released an editorial for the Wall Street Journal regarding Navid Afkari:  

It was a historic day yesterday at the White House: One perspective from the region was also noted below along with the analysis by the Haaretz' Noa Landau available here: