America This Week: August 15-21

More fallout from Raid Week, a Saudi shopping spree, Liz Cheney's pyrrhic victory, an eastward NATO deployment, News Bingo, Drinking Syria's milkshake, Three finance headlines and more

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Clockwise from top left: A stoked bin Salman, the tiny receding image of Liz Cheney, Hageman walks off with a win and someone’s child, the alleged Syria tanker convoy, Trump in full plumage, and the 101st tweets its move

Editor’s note: the audio recap of “America This Week” with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn is up. Click here to listen:

Welcome back to America This Week, wrapping up a week in news from the country that brought you cheeseburgers, rock n’ roll, “forever chemicals,” Annie, the Balingiga massacre, most of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, gun-toting robot dogs, electric light, three-named assassins and Internet porn. This week in our illustrious history:

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A guest post by

Eric Salzman

Eric Salzman has been a financial market professional for 35 years, serving as a trader, risk manager, salesperson and regulator.