Print Wynton Hall Read Full Bio U.S. Carries Out Simulated Nuclear Bombing Raids on North Korea On Monday, Pentagon officials confirmed that U.S. B-52 bombers carried out simulated nuclear bombing raids on North Korea. 21 Mar 2013 Economists: Obama Exaggerated Sequester Job Losses President Barack Obama’s dire warnings that the across-the-board sequester cuts would spawn massive unemployment—losses of up to 750,000 jobs—were exaggerated, say top economists. 20 Mar 2013 Senate Democratic Budget Increases Debt $50,000 per Household The Senate Democratic budget will increase America’s gross federal debt per household by more than $50,000 over the next decade, according to GOP Senate Budget Committee staff. 20 Mar 2013 AP: 45% of K-12th Grade Students Minorities Last year, more U.S. babies were born to minorities than whites. Today, over 45% of kindergarten through 12th grade students are minorities, a figure projected to tip to a nonwhite majority in just five years, according to the Census Bureau. 19 Mar 2013 'Underwater' Mortgages Decline by 1.7 Million Over Last Year The number of U.S. homeowners owing more on their mortgages than their homes are worth declined by 1.7 million from a year earlier, according to recently released data from research company CoreLogic. 19 Mar 2013 Study: 28% of Americans Have 'No Confidence' of Retiring Comfortably Increasing life-expectancy and low interest rates are combining to create a retirement crunch that could reach crisis levels, a new report finds. 19 Mar 2013 Execs Launch PR Campaign For 25% Corporate Tax Rate Playing off the theme of “March Madness” basketball fever, the Business Roundtable is launching a public awareness campaign called the “Campaign for Home Court Advantage” to build support for lowering the corporate tax rate to 25% and limiting corporate taxes for offshore income. 19 Mar 2013 Former Top Obama Official: Obamacare Transition Will Be 'Messy' During a Center for American Progress seminar on Monday, a former top Obama administration official charged with developing Obamacare said the shift to the president’s healthcare overhaul will be “messy” and fraught with “unanticipated” challenges. 19 Mar 2013 Cypriot Bank Tax Not Unlike Federal Reserve Policies Cypriot bank patrons say they were stunned and outraged by the unprecedented announcement of a possible one-time confiscation of up to 9.9% of ordinary savings accounts as part of Cyprus’s €10bn ($13 billion) eurozone bailout deal. 18 Mar 2013 Employers, Unions Outraged by $63-Per-Worker Obamacare Fee A provision buried inside Obamacare will force many employers to pay an extra $63 per employee next year. Analysts say most of the cost will likely be passed on to workers. “At a time when we are facing economic uncertainty,” said Chantel Sheaks of Buck Consultants, a subsidiary of Xerox, “[companies will] be hit with a multimillion-dollar assessment without getting anything back for it.” 16 Mar 2013 Previous 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Next
U.S. Carries Out Simulated Nuclear Bombing Raids on North Korea On Monday, Pentagon officials confirmed that U.S. B-52 bombers carried out simulated nuclear bombing raids on North Korea. 21 Mar 2013
Economists: Obama Exaggerated Sequester Job Losses President Barack Obama’s dire warnings that the across-the-board sequester cuts would spawn massive unemployment—losses of up to 750,000 jobs—were exaggerated, say top economists. 20 Mar 2013
Senate Democratic Budget Increases Debt $50,000 per Household The Senate Democratic budget will increase America’s gross federal debt per household by more than $50,000 over the next decade, according to GOP Senate Budget Committee staff. 20 Mar 2013
AP: 45% of K-12th Grade Students Minorities Last year, more U.S. babies were born to minorities than whites. Today, over 45% of kindergarten through 12th grade students are minorities, a figure projected to tip to a nonwhite majority in just five years, according to the Census Bureau. 19 Mar 2013
'Underwater' Mortgages Decline by 1.7 Million Over Last Year The number of U.S. homeowners owing more on their mortgages than their homes are worth declined by 1.7 million from a year earlier, according to recently released data from research company CoreLogic. 19 Mar 2013
Study: 28% of Americans Have 'No Confidence' of Retiring Comfortably Increasing life-expectancy and low interest rates are combining to create a retirement crunch that could reach crisis levels, a new report finds. 19 Mar 2013
Execs Launch PR Campaign For 25% Corporate Tax Rate Playing off the theme of “March Madness” basketball fever, the Business Roundtable is launching a public awareness campaign called the “Campaign for Home Court Advantage” to build support for lowering the corporate tax rate to 25% and limiting corporate taxes for offshore income. 19 Mar 2013
Former Top Obama Official: Obamacare Transition Will Be 'Messy' During a Center for American Progress seminar on Monday, a former top Obama administration official charged with developing Obamacare said the shift to the president’s healthcare overhaul will be “messy” and fraught with “unanticipated” challenges. 19 Mar 2013
Cypriot Bank Tax Not Unlike Federal Reserve Policies Cypriot bank patrons say they were stunned and outraged by the unprecedented announcement of a possible one-time confiscation of up to 9.9% of ordinary savings accounts as part of Cyprus’s €10bn ($13 billion) eurozone bailout deal. 18 Mar 2013
Employers, Unions Outraged by $63-Per-Worker Obamacare Fee A provision buried inside Obamacare will force many employers to pay an extra $63 per employee next year. Analysts say most of the cost will likely be passed on to workers. “At a time when we are facing economic uncertainty,” said Chantel Sheaks of Buck Consultants, a subsidiary of Xerox, “[companies will] be hit with a multimillion-dollar assessment without getting anything back for it.” 16 Mar 2013
Republicans: IRS scandal shows agency 'rotten at the core,' needs major reform18 May 2013, 9:01 AM PDT
Republicans: IRS scandal shows agency 'rotten at the core,' needs major reform18 May 2013, 9:01 AM PDT
50 to 60 injured after car drives into hikers at Virginia parade, emergency official says18 May 2013, 2:25 PM PDT