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Will not run for public office again, says Clinton

Bloomberg Hillary Clinton said she won’t run for public office again, but the former Democratic presidential nominee isn’t giving up on trying to make her mark on American politics. “As an active politician it’s over. I am done with being a candidate,” Clinton told CBS News in an interview before Tuesday’s release of “What Happened,” her memoir about the 2016 ...

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While Trump takes the shots, Tillerson runs the offense

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has often been the silent man in the Trump foreign policy team. But out of the spotlight, he appears to be crafting a broad strategy aimed at working with China to resolve the North Korea crisis and with Russia to stabilize Syria and Ukraine. The Tillerson approach focuses on personal diplomacy, in direct contacts with ...

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ECB shouldn’t worry about the euro

The European Central Bank (ECB) has spent much of this decade convincing markets that the euro is irreversible. It is therefore mildly ironic that policy makers in Frankfurt may be in trouble because of the sudden return of confidence in the single currency. Investors flocking to the euro have pushed it above $1.20, a 14 percent appreciation since the start ...

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