Economy

A jury has delivered a guilty verdict on Friday in the trial of the school superintendent at the center of the 2021 transgender assault and rape scandal in Loudoun County, Virginia. 

More than 25,000 auto workers are now striking against General Motors (GM), Ford, and Stellantis as negotiations stall over worries that President Joe Biden’s Electric Vehicle (EV) mandates will spur massive job losses and wage cuts down the road.

The Biden administration is attempting to tackle student loan debt once more, months after the Supreme Court nixed the administration’s controversial $430 student loan debt transfer.

The hot new trend in Chinese culture is “full-time children,” young people who have given up looking for jobs as unemployment soars past 21 percent for their demographic and are, instead, paid “salaries” by their families to stay home and take care of their aging parents.

Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing Chat has recently fallen prey to a sophisticated malware advertising campaign, with malicious ads infiltrating conversations and directing users to fake download sites known to distribute malware.

Linda Yaccarino, the newly appointed CEO of Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, has raised eyebrows by displaying an apparent lack of alignment with Musk’s plans and seemingly minimal engagement with the platform she leads during interviews at the recent Vox Code Conference. Yaccarino accidentally revealed on video that her company’s app isn’t even on her iPhone’s home screen.

Elon Musk says he wants a huge increase in migration, despite the evidence that migration imposes massive pocketbook and civic damage on ordinary Americans.

Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda met with members of Congress Thursday to push for a taxpayer-funded bailout for failing theater companies across the country. The actor helped introduce a new bill that would earmark $500 million annually for five years, or $2.5 billion, to non-profit stages.

Both the Tories and likely gov-in-waiting Labour are talking up more tax rises, even as the UK suffers the highest peace-time tax surge ever.

Califoria Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was exultant Thursday after signing a law to raise wages in fast food restaurants to $20 per hour and to create a new “council” that will govern the industry.

On Thursday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Rep. Brandon Williams (R-NY) said that it is a “fair” criticism of House Republicans that they didn’t pass all the appropriations bills and haven’t done so right before the end of the fiscal

A German member of parliament says his bank account has been closed for political reasons, a move he says reminds him of the communist era. 

Donald Trump’s speech in Michigan to striking autoworkers showed why he’s the GOP frontrunner, Breitbart Economic Editor John Carney told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow.

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) wants to offer much-needed wage hikes to American auto workers by replacing President Joe Biden’s Electric Vehicle (EV) mandates with tax credits for gas-powered cars made in the United States at high-wage plants.

The economic challenge facing the U.S. today is not that auto workers are demand to be paid too much. It’s that inflation has destroyed too much of what they are paid. 

The Mexican state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil company is evaluating ways to start charging Cuba for the multimillion-dollar oil shipments Mexico has been donating to the island nation’s communist regime, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

Paul Fitzpatrick, the president of the 1792 Exchange, explained in an op-ed on Wednesday that Wall Street asset managers are using state pension funds to advance “racial equity audits,” green energy schemes and other leftist goals.

A Microsoft executive testified at the ongoing Google antitrust trial that Apple seemingly used Bing as a mere “bargaining chip” against the internet giant, never intending to replace Google Search with Bing as the default search engine on its devices.

Barry Diller, chairman of IAC and Expedia, said the current agreement between the Writers Guild of America and the studios doesn’t go far enough to protect copyright holders from being gobbled up by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The major Democratic-run cities cannot survive without their Ponzi scheme of low-wage migration, says author Michael Lind.

Costco is apparently selling gold bars that consumers are snapping up at a record pace.

The rise of AI girlfriends is ruining an entire generation of young men by fostering a silent epidemic of loneliness, according to Washington University Professor of Data Science Liberty Vittert.

Sales have dropped to near all-time lows.

During an interview with CNN during their coverage of Wednesday’s Republican presidential primary debate, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) stated that President Joe Biden’s economic record is sound, but people don’t feel that because Democrats are “just prone to distraction

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) argued that gas prices in California are higher than prices in other states mostly because of price gouging, but acknowledged that taxes, environmental regulations, and California’s

During CNN’s coverage of Wednesday’s Republican presidential primary debate, CNN Senior Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser David Axelrod said that the reason why people have such negative views of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy is because “food prices,

While Senator Tim Scott declared from the Reagan Library that union demands for higher pay and shorter work weeks “will not stand,” Donald Trump told workers in Michigan that “we love being with you.”

Former President Donald Trump took a swipe at President Joe Biden while speaking to autoworkers in Macomb County, Michigan, painting the president as mired in corruption and family scandal.

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) defended auto workers at the Republican presidential primary debate on Wednesday evening.

Former Vice President Mike Pence declared that Americans should have a right to join a union or not join a union during the Republican primary presidential debate on Wednesday night.

Donald Trump mocked Joe Biden for declaring himself the “most pro-union president” despite supporting job-killing free trade.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) took a shot at striking auto workers in the first question pitched his way at the Republican presidential primary debate on Wednesday evening.