On Monday, MSNBC host Ronan Farrow compared President Obama’s recently-unveiled budget to Oprah Winfrey’s famous 2004 car giveaway. Farrow summarized the Obama budget as “basically, you get the money and you get the money, you all get the money! Just
Congressional Republicans are panning President Obama’s budget proposal, noting it offers big tax increases, but would never balance.
Instead of paying the record-breaking $4.5 million for a 30-second Super Bowl XLIX ad in hopes of going viral, Tesla apparently leaked a cell phone video of its blazingly fast Model X crossover, ripping it on a California pier and dominating downloads over the weekend.
Posturing as champion of needed public investments and fairness, President Obama wants new taxes on the overseas earnings of American businesses. That would kill jobs and punish retired Americans.
In the traditional pre-Super Bowl interview, President Barack Obama discussed the Chicago Bears, beer, snacks and politics from the White House kitchen with “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie. Obama touted his economic policy vision set forth in his State of
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer laughed as he said repeatedly there was”absolutely zero” chance any of the tax increases President Barack Obama proposed in his State of the Union address would happen. Cramer
On CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” President Barack Obama said he was most proud of “saving the American economy” and he is”very confident that America is stronger, more prosperous, safer, and more influential today than it was when I took office.”
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said President Barack Obama is exploiting “envy economics,” with his proposed tax increases on the wealthy. In discussing the president’s plan to tax inheritance Ryan said, “I think it is
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher argued that Socialism created America’s thriving middle class on Friday. While Maher admitted that the middle class is struggling, he criticized Republicans for talking about middle class struggles because “up until like Thursday, the
In 2014, GDP growth bounced back in the spring and summer from a tough winter, but in the fourth quarter, it fell off to 2.6 percent. History indicates the country should be doing a lot better—simply, too many prime working-age Americans are despondent and have permanently dropped out of the workforce.
At the House Democratic Retreat in Philadelphia on Friday, Vice President Joe Biden made a stunning admission about the last six years for the country under President Barack Obama. “To state the obvious, the past six years have been really,
Perhaps Greece’s new far-left government will rethink its plans to shake Europe down for cash to fund its wild spending binges, now that the German economy has officially entered a deflationary cycle, as reported by Business Insider
The people who run America’s federal government are doing well for themselves, financially. You must make more than 100,000 to “live comfortably” in Washington, D.C.
After Apple (AAPL) reported that it had sold $74.6 billion in products and earned a record corporate profit of $18.04 billion profit in a single quarter, Samsung Electronics admitted Thursday that much of Apple’s gain came at its expense. Korea’s former corporate juggernaut reported its lowest annual profit since 2011, with a 32% drop in quarterly profit, to $21.3 billion.
The ultimate professional insult to a CEO is to be fired and then watch your former company’s stock jump 3.5% on the announcement. That was the story for Don Thompson, who was dumped by McDonald’s Corporation (MCD) late Wednesday.
Apple (AAPL: NASDAQ) may have printed the largest quarterly earnings in the history of capitalism, but the smartphone market is moving against the future of the Apple iPhone as Google’s Android operating system software gains market domination.
The Federal Reserve has declared economic growth “solid.” But several new reports show most Americans are treading along a dangerous financial tightrope, where one slip could be devastating.
The White House announced Thursday morning that President Barack Obama wants Congress to “fully reverse” bipartisan sequester spending limits by boosting domestic and defense spending by $70 billion in an effort to “end the era of manufactured crises and mindless austerity.”
Despite President Obama’s happy talk, it is clear that America’s recovery from recession isn’t going as well as it needs to.
Marissa Mayer appears to be gaining traction in a turnaround of an Internet pioneer that most of Wall Street thought would be impossible.
A recent House rules change by Republicans designed to curb insolvency in the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) trust fund has sparked ire among some Democrats and guaranteed a forthcoming debate over the explosive growth in America’s disability program.
On Tuesday, talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin argued that the national debt will lead to a full, real government shutdown. “You’ll hear these people ‘we can’t have a government shutdown’…the government’s going to shut
Facing strong opposition from parents and both political parties, Barack Obama is abandoning plans to tax college savings accounts, also called 529s.
The government of Venezuela, believed to be the most oil-rich nation in South America, is considering raising gas prices to keep the national economy afloat, though such a move could spark protests and unrest in a nation already rife with political tension.
CBO Director Douglas Elmdorf testified that debt will exceed 100% of GDP within 25 years and continue to rise, a “trend that could not be sustained” and would eventually heighten “the risk of a fiscal crisis” before the House Budget
