Op Ed: Bitcoin Price Rises as US President Trump Promises Power to the People
It is rare that the London sky shines so bright you can’t find one cloud, but that was the weather yesterday in the capital that once used to run an empire where the sun never sets. In Washington DC, which has in many ways taken on that banner, the weather was more somber, just slightly less rainy than during the vote for Brexit, reflecting in both cases the seriousness of a monumental task that now faces the world and the country. “We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital and in every hall of power. From this day forward, a new....
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