Welfare System Advisor Pillows

'We need people who dream the impossible dreams - like pensions and health care.'

"Oh, I'll be bi-partisan alright, punishing both sides of the aisle."

"Nation-building never works."

"Obama didn’t get to name a Supreme Court justice during his final year. So how come Trump does?"

Who will determine Venezuela's future?

Foreign Markets with Big Barriers

UK/US Free Trade Deal

Mario Draghi

A Q&A with President Obama over jobs

'How can we believe anything when we can disprove everything?'

USAID Octopus Wrapping Around Globe

"Have you heard? There's talk about raising the retirement age to 170?"

G7 Summit Concern

US and the EU

We need a Europe of U-turns.

'I look forward to a bigger and bolder vision in my 2nd term.'

Two Ways out of Iraq.

'The great thing is, the poor won't be able to squander it on luxuries such as dignity, equality and hope!'

US Credit: 'I'm down grading your credit rating...'

'What I have to do first?!'

GOP exaggerating scale of immigration, inflation and crime rates

"Massive deficit spending, enormous Federal bailouts, open borders, ridiculous earmarks, pork for everybody, intervention all over the world.... Now, why didn't I think of that?"

Government and Opposition

'Staffers don't report we're managing decline. They report we met our targets and did out job!'

"Hold everything! I just thought up a terrific loophole!"

'For the economy to improve we're counting on a 'trickle down' from the super-wealthy to the wealthy.'

Where tax money goes...

The ways and means committee reaches the tipping point.

Trump Tariffs

125% tariff in escalating trade war.... ...Mitch realizes that everything he ordered is made in China

"Could you spare some change for a guy fresh off welfare?"

Labour moderates rallying cry.

Whitehall: Gave honest impartial advice

'Discipline for the PIIGS.'