
Despite investing billions into turning Africa into a friendly business environment for them, a recent poll found that Kenyans perceive China as “the biggest threat to the country’s economic and political development.”
by Frances Martel28 Dec 2015, 9:54 AM PST0

In a Tuesday morning interview with radio host Bill Bennett, Paul Ryan defended his omnibus bill’s controversial expansion in the H-2B visa program, which would allow foreign workers to fill blue-collar American jobs, by arguing that if the provision were not included, American companies would be forced to shut their doors.
by Julia Hahn23 Dec 2015, 5:41 PM PST0

At the heart of Korea’s Onsan Refinery lies a street called “A.I. Naimi Road,” an homage to Saudi Arabia’s oil minister. The reason: state-owned Saudi Arabian Oil Co. holds a 65 percent stake in the complex.
by Breitbart News16 Dec 2015, 7:52 AM PST0

The Cadillac tax was made famous last year by Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber who said it was a ploy designed to fool “stupid” American voters. Now the tax is facing a 2-year delay as part of a congressional budget deal, with leading Democrats helping push the deal forward.
by John Sexton9 Dec 2015, 6:40 PM PST0

GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina came out swinging against President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for politicizing the mass shooting in California.
by Alex Swoyer2 Dec 2015, 7:01 PM PST0

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, a 2016 presidential candidate and billionaire businessman, for the first time ever brought his wife and kids on stage before a rowdy crowd in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Tuesday night.
by Matthew Boyle24 Nov 2015, 10:25 PM PST0

“The current system isn’t fair,” 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz responded before explaining the details of his recently released tax plan at Tuesday night’s Fox Business-Wall Street Journal debate.
by Michelle Moons10 Nov 2015, 10:06 PM PST0

In Tuesday nights’s Republican debate, Donald Trump further distinguished himself from the other top-polling GOP presidential candidates by expressing his adamant opposition to the massive 5,554-page TransPacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.
by Julia Hahn10 Nov 2015, 9:50 PM PST0

While Breitbart News has been reporting for months that John Boehner’s speakership was in jeopardy, the Washington media was stunned on Friday with the historic announcement of Boehner’s resignation.
by Julia Hahn27 Sep 2015, 8:10 PM PST0

(Reuters) Islamic finance is gaining prominence as a channel for China to expand its economic influence abroad as banks strengthen ties with Muslim-majority countries and Chinese companies start to tap offshore pools of Islamic funds.
by Reuters22 Sep 2015, 6:08 AM PST0

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker used his sooner-than-expected exit speech to spout the anti-Trump, populist-hating narrative now being pushed by the establishment’s entwined GOP, Democratic, Wall Street, and media wings.
by Neil Munro21 Sep 2015, 6:48 PM PST0

The strong dollar, low interest rates and pent-up demand should drive after-tax growth in real consumer spending and a doubling of the rate of housing growth, according to Lombard Street Research.
by Chriss W. Street21 Aug 2015, 4:15 AM PST0

GOP presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum spoke at the National Press Club on Thursday in Washington, D.C., telling the audience that in America no one is above the law, “including presidents, judges, and, yes, immigrants.”
by Alex Swoyer20 Aug 2015, 5:23 PM PST0

A former milk magnate has poured scorn on recent campaigns by farmers to drive up the price of supermarket-sold milk. He says global over-production and reduced demand are to blame for falling profits, not supermarkets, which are ironically among the
by Donna Rachel Edmunds18 Aug 2015, 7:58 AM PST0

Secretary of State John Kerry warned Tuesday that the U.S. Dollar may “cease” to be the world’s reserve currency should Congress vote to re-apply sanctions to the dictatorial Islamic regime in Tehran.
by Jordan Schachtel11 Aug 2015, 2:32 PM PST0

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Aug. 3 (UPI) — Puerto Rico paid only $628,000 on a $58 million debt bill due Monday, putting the country into default for the first time.
by Breitbart News3 Aug 2015, 2:50 PM PST0

The tidal wave of migrants fleeing the bloody chaos of the post-Obama Middle East has been hitting Mediterranean nations particularly hard. But Hungary has seen a sizable number of migrants from Syria and Afghanistan as well, experiencing what the Wall Street Journal describes as a doubling of last year’s total migrant population in just the first six months of 2015.
by John Hayward26 Jul 2015, 7:41 PM PST0

Hillary Clinton just laid out her economic agenda, and ambiguous statements about companies like Uber and Airbnb leave the entire sharing economy industry in limbo. Clinton said she “vows to crack down on employers who misclassify workers as independent contractors.” She also noted that the “so-called gig economy offers exciting opportunities but raises hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future.”
by Ferenstein Wire14 Jul 2015, 6:20 AM PST0

In a striking series of admissions, Pope Francis told journalists on the flight back to Rome from Paraguay that he has an aversion to the economy, which he does not understand very well, and that he has neglected the middle class.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.14 Jul 2015, 5:27 AM PST0

It was a very deep depression, as deep as the one that succeeded in 1929. But in this case, the government did not intervene, and it was over in less than two years. Was this a coincidence? Grant does not think it was. He believes, as this writer does, that present government interventions have deepened our current economic malaise and are retarding a full recovery.
by Hunter Lewis12 Jul 2015, 9:55 AM PST0

Japanese health officials are attempting to deal with a growing problem—a million young adults, mostly men, have locked themselves in their bedrooms and are refusing to come out. This condition, called “hikikomori” by Japanese health professionals, is deeply troubling Japanese leaders.
by Michael Lucchese8 Jul 2015, 5:48 PM PST0

Since humans don’t behave the way models say we should, those economic models make a lot of bad predictions. “Virtually no economists saw the financial crisis of 2007-08 coming,” he admits (although another behavioral economist, Robert Shiller, did warn about soaring housing prices). “Worse, many thought that both the crash and its aftermath were things that simply could not happen.” The answer is to empower people through free markets.
by Rich Tucker27 Jun 2015, 11:15 AM PST0

Supporters of the world’s wealthiest terrorist group, the Islamic State (ISIS), have begun circulating images on social media, confirmed by anti-ISIS activists, of gold coins minted within ISIS strongholds, allegedly a “currency” that will be put to use in the near future.
by Frances Martel24 Jun 2015, 7:51 AM PST0

In a “Dear Colleague” letter addressed to congressional Republicans, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions warns against rushing to deliver disastrous trade bills to President Obama’s desk by voting for cloture on Tuesday morning.
by Katie McHugh22 Jun 2015, 5:20 PM PST0

Venezuela is collapsing rapidly before the eyes of Latin America, with most of the region standing idly by. This exposes isolationism by countries throughout the Western Hemisphere, and exemplifies how the lack of engagement within the region is now confronted with a regional bloc that will not let it engage even if it wants to.
by Liana Eustacia Reyes28 May 2015, 4:00 AM PST0