Economy

According to the Washington Post, Facebook is in the process of negotiating with the FTC over a multi-billion dollar fine that would settle the agency’s investigation into Facebook’s privacy breaches.

U.S. consumer sentiment snapped back in February from a two-year low hit last month, indicating that the weak December retail sales reported this week were a temporary slump.

Amazon officials reportedly defended the company’s facial recognition programs during a meeting with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Thursday, just hours before Amazon reversed its controversial deal to base its new “HQ2” headquarters in New York City.

Insider analysts now believe that a foreign government was behind the Equifax data hack that impacted 143 million people, to identify and recruit spies.

The British economy is matching or outpacing growth in the Eurozone’s leading countries as Brexit approaches, with inflation falling and real wages rising.

The GOP Majority Leader in the Senate persuaded President Donald Trump to not veto the GOP’s flawed border security bill by promising to back a national emergency construction of border walls, according to insider leaks to the establishment media. 

The United Kingdom and the United States have signed a Mutual Recognition Agreement to ensure British-American trade continues seamlessly after Brexit, undercutting EU loyalists who claimed it would be damaged.

A majority of Americans disagree with socialists Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and like capitalism.

Keniel Aeon Thomas, 29, attempted to scam former Reagan and Bush administration veteran William H. Webster — it did not go well.

GOP legislators won some extra cheap labor for their donors while letting Democrats insert a series of anti-wall, pro-migration, and anti-enforcement policy riders into the 2019 spending package. 

The latest price data deals a sharp blow to the fearmongers who said consumers would pay for Trump’s tariffs.

GOP staffers and activists are rushing to find the political landmines buried by Democratic and Republican legislators in the seven-agency, $328 billion, 1,159-page 2019 spending bill.

Silicon Valley giant Google reportedly plans to spend $13 billion on real estate in 2019 as part of the company’s rapid expansion.

The 2019 spending plan for the Department of Homeland Security includes numerous rules that will help Democrat legislators and activist groups stigmatize and choke immigration enforcement prior to the 2020 election. 

Amazon announced Thursday it will not build its headquarters in New York City amid growing opposition to the project.  

Democrat legislators added numerous aid and welfare programs in the 2019 spending bill to support the growing wave of economic migrants, even as they agreed to provide $1,375 billion for construction of a border wall.

In a Thursday interview with Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow cautioned against overturning President Donald Trump’s pro-growth policies. “[M]y biggest concern, frankly, is that these pro-growth policies might be overturned. That’s my biggest

As the stock market slumped and the government headed into a shutdown, American consumers pulled back on spending in December.

Trump on canceled bullet train: “They owe the Federal Government three and a half billion dollars.” Gavin Newsom: “This is CA’s money.”

Americans who switched jobs gained wage increases of 4.6 percent in the 12 months leading up to January 2018, according to a report in Bloomberg News. 

President Donald Trump and GOP legislators are withholding their approval as top congressional staffers and leaders work behind closed doors to write the critical details of the 2019 spending plan for border security and the border wall. 

Wage growth in manufacturing has not been this high since before the financial crisis and the great recession.

Note what Cuomo is not talking about: fixing the problem, which would require lowering his state’s taxes, most especially New York’s obnoxiously high 8.82 percent income tax rate

New York state announced this week that it will penalize Tesla and Panasonic if they don’t hit the employment targets at their massive shared facility in Buffalo, which was largely built with taxpayer funds.

Consumer prices once again demonstrate that American households are not being squeezed by tariffs on metals and China imports

Amazon and General Motors are reportedly in talks to invest in electric car manufacturer Rivian, which could spell trouble for Tesla.

Inflation is running well below expectations with U.S. consumer prices unchanged in January, the third consecutive month of flat prices.