Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Forbes.com: Times Running Out For College As Student Enrollment Dwindles

By SIMON CONSTABLE

For many people the cost of getting a degree is the biggest investment they ever make. It’s supposed to be a path to higher earnings, many experts say. Read more here.

 

Haverford College. Class of 1900, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

Monday, November 6, 2023

Sunday, November 5, 2023

WSJ: Where Are Commodities Prices Headed?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

China’s economy, war in the Middle East and a predicted El NiƱo are among the factors experts are looking at. Read more here.


Lady Maria Mine at Charters Towers, 1891.
Early diggings on the Charters Towers mining district. Makeshift shade for the miners.
Allom, H. B., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Thursday, November 2, 2023

#France: BUY Japan, Defence, Energy for the long wars ahead, @RealConstable, Kiplinger's Retirement Report @BatchelorShow

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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State Archives of North Carolina, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons 
Photograph of a pilot and his aerial observer with the 278th Aero Squadron, 2nd U.S. Army Air Service, pictured seated in their airplane on an airfield in France during World War I (undated) [Photograph taken by or collected by Henry L. Graves].

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

CONSTABLE CONFIDENTIAL: Mid-east Update: Yemen Fires Rockets At Israel and Israel Braces for an Attack from the Lebanon

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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Photo caption: soldiers in the Gaza Strip 1956


Constable Confidential: U.S. Refuses To Offer Passports to Non-American Hostages Held in Gaza

By SIMON CONSTABLE 

Ben Weinthal joins Constable Confidential from Jerusalem to discuss his recent story about lobby groups urging the U.S. and other countries to give hostages held in Gaza citizenship.

So far, no country is offering such potential refuge.


Photo caption: Great Britain: The children of Polish Jews from the region between Germany and Poland on their arrival in London on the "Warsaw".

Photo credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-S69279 / CC-BY-SA 3.0CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons.




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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Constable Confidential: Reform UK's Ben Habib weighs in on the Israel-Hamas conflict and explains how the Tory Party dropped the ball on Brexit

By SIMON CONSTABLE


Photo Credit: אלכה אגו×Ø / . Tanks of the 14th Brigade advancing on the Crimson Axis (south of Abu Aguila). 
Location - Sinai Desert (Crimson Axis). This file contains content and released by the IDF Spokespersons Unit.

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