Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has now laid forth his agenda for the Republican Congress—and while his advocates have praised him as a forward-thinking, public relations-savvy replacement for predecessor Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), his speech on Thursday didn’t show it.
Wall Street began to wake up to the “deep-value” Yahoo! play that Breitbart News has been reporting, with a 10 percent jump in the stock price to over $36 on December 2.
A Reuters report takes a look at a new challenge facing the world of Cuba’s lax trademark enforcement: “normalization” of relations with the United States allowing American corporations to challenge copyright violations by small business owners using names like “McDunald” for their burger huts.
Greek unions are holding their second general strike in less than a month Thursday, this time against a planned social security overhaul that could enforce new pension cuts. The labour ministry is working on a new system under which state-guaranteed
Retail analysts at Foursquare Direct reported that Black Friday shopping traffic was down only 2 percent, but mall and superstores sector traffic plunged by 5 percent.
According to a new Fusion 2016 Issues Poll, the percentage of young white people age 18-35 who believe the American Dream is dead has almost tripled since 1986.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican leaders in Congress are putting the final touches on a massive omnibus spending bill that will fund the federal government until after the presidential election.
Volvo Trucks North America has confirmed that it will be reducing production of several truck lines and will therefore be laying off 1 in 4 workers beginning in February of next year.
A Burlingame couple is renting out their children’s one-bedroom, one-bathroom treehouse for $275 a night on Airbnb.
Monday’s Chicago Purchasing Manager’s Index for Mid-West manufacturing plunge to a score of 48.7 would have caused widespread economic concern three decades ago, but today’s blue-collar employment is down to only one in twelve Americans.
The U.S. Business and Industry Council (USBIC) is launching a print ad series in several media outlets around Capitol Hill to “highlight the lack of enforceable currency provisions in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)” trade deal between the United States and 11 other countries.
For years, water, or, more accurately, its scarcity, has been predicted to be the next doomsday scenario.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott heads for Havana, Cuba, on Monday with a large trade delegation from the Lone Star State. The move comes less than one year after President Barack Obama re-opened diplomatic relations with the nation still under the tight grip of the Castro regime.
Russian President Vladimir Putin issued economic sanctions against Turkey in response to the downing of a Russian warplane on Nov. 24.
Hillary Rodham Clinton called for hundreds of billions in new federal spending on infrastructure on Sunday, kicking off what her campaign says will be a month-long focus on job creation.
Mercedes-Benz research and development lab in Sunnyvale, California is racing to beat Apple, Google and Uber to dominate commercial and luxury self-driving vehicles. Google, Tesla, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Volkswagen and four other developers of autonomous vehicles already have permission from
A third day of protests descended upon Chicago’s busy downtown Michigan Avenue shopping district, shutting down some stores as protesters barricaded doors arm-in-arm to prevent shoppers from entering or leaving stores on Chicago’s famed “Magnificent Mile.”
Democratic socialist candidate for president Bernie Sanders wasn’t getting into the Black Friday spirit, spending the day tweeting an angry missive against retail giant WalMart.
The 20th Annual Blessing of the Fleet was held in Trinidad, California early Thanksgiving morning at the usual start of the busy season for crab fishing.
Consumer spending is always driven by a certain amount of hype, but the barrage of Black Friday events, sales and deals belongs in its own alternate reality. Sales can only be as good as the underlying economy. On that fundamental, this year’s retail sales picture looks bleak. For at least the past six years, the actual economy has almost always turned out to be weaker than the markets, analysts or the Fed have believed.
Californians are about to be punished for exceeding the 25 percent statewide mandatory water savings edict with $300 million in conservation-related rate hikes.
Turkey could lose billions in all sectors of their economy after the government shot down a Russian jet on the Turkey-Syria border. Tourism might be the first to suffer, as the country hosts over 4 million Russian visitors a year.
The United States has issued 680,000 green cards to immigrants of Muslim-majority countries, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Big Labor is set to have their annual Black Friday Walmart protests this week, but critics say that the protest is more about extorting big business than trying to raise the minimum wage for Walmart employees.
BERLIN – The French and German economy ministers have proposed setting up a 10 billion euro ($10.65 billion) fund to pay for tighter security, external border controls and care of refugees, French minister Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday. Speaking in
