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A new study finds that Texas is the best U.S. state to start a business.

Protests against Iran’s regime continued for a second day on Tuesday in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar as Iranians railed against the government for its foreign and economic policies, while the Islamic Republic’s government said the uprisings were merely a fabrication as part of “foreign media propaganda.”

TEHRAN, Iran — Protesters in the Iranian capital reportedly swarmed its historic Grand Bazaar on Monday and forced shopkeepers to close their stalls, apparently angry over the Islamic Republic’s troubled economy, months after similar demonstrations rocked the country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin invited North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un to visit Moscow on Thursday, promising to “make all necessary efforts to establish ties” such as economic cooperation with the communist dictatorship.

The American economy grew slightly less than initially estimated in the first three-months of 2018, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

A new study by the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University finds that rising costs of land is contributing to higher home prices in the Lone Star State.

Steven Brill, founder of Court TV and American Lawyer, discussed his new book “Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America’s Fifty-Year Fall and Those Fighting to Reverse It” with SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Wednesday’s edition of Breitbart News Tonight.

More than 50 male academics from Spain have pledged to boycott all conferences and speaking panels that don’t feature women.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Wednesday that Venezuelan mothers will receive a 1.5 million bolívar deposit in their bank accounts, a “bonus” to celebrate Mother’s Day in the socialist Latin American country.

A California regulatory board has passed a regulation that will require all new homes built in the state to be powered by solar panels.

The virtual currency used in the popular video game series World of Warcraft is, as of Monday, worth 62 times that of the Venezuelan Bolivar.

Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC), the second largest oil company in the United States, will buy Texas petroleum refiner and pipeline owner Andeavor for more than $23 billion, creating the largest independent oil refinery in the nation, the companies announced jointly on Monday.

Job Creators Network, one of the nation’s largest pro-jobs grassroots organizations, announced on Sunday that its scheduled rally near Chicago, Illinois, was postponed after “opposition” activists ambushed the event.

House Speaker Paul Ryan is rejecting the growing inside pressure for him to allow a new leadership team who can guide the GOP’s House caucus through the difficult 2018 elections.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R, KY) has torpedoed President Donald Trump’s plan to cut $60 billion in federal spending, despite a promise to open a “discussion” on the cuts.

With all the talk of trade war and tariffs in the media lately, we often hear from economists and CEOs of major corporations, but we don’t often hear from the small business owners who feel the pain the most when costs are increased even by just a small amount.

Perry Parker, an international businessman and a Mississippi farmer who is running for Congress in Mississippi’s third district, told Breitbart News Saturday that the Republican establishment does not “know what to make of a businessman who just wants to grow the economy, and not looking to build a power base in Washington, DC.”

A lower than expected retail sales number Wednesday has many economists revising down their forecast of first quarter gross domestic product.

American workers whose lives were uprooted by multinational free trade deals are thanking President Trump for signing into law tariffs on imported steel and aluminum to protect U.S. jobs.

President Trump’s era of economic nationalism is putting “intense pressure” on corporations to raise the wages of American workers.

The trade globalist wing of the White House has failed in its efforts to stop President Trump from following through on his promise to protect American industries and jobs by imposing tariffs on imported foreign products.

The avid free trade-wing of President Trump’s administration is trying to convince him to weaken his economic nationalist agenda, which is expected to include harsh tariffs on potentially hundreds of imported Chinese goods.

Economists have consistently underestimated the positive economic impact of Donald Trump’s policies. Often, the consensus view of economists has been dead wrong.

Job Creators Network, one of the nation’s largest pro-jobs grassroots organizations, released an ad this week slamming House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for calling the $1,000 tax cut bonuses being doled out to millions of working Americans ‘crumbs.’

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is urging President Trump to impose tough tariffs on aluminum and steel imports to protect American industries and increase domestic production.

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau toured California tech communities last weekend to drum up “Resistance” to President Trump’s threat to dump the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

President Donald Trump reacted to the recent market turmoil in a tweet this morning, calling the market’s apparent negative reaction to good news a “big mistake.”

Wage growth for Americans stalled in 2017, creating a midterm problem for President Donald Trump as he tries to raise voters’ wages but also pass an amnesty that will flood the economy with cheap imported workers.

Many members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) refused to stand or applaud when President Donald Trump touted the historically low level of black unemployment during his first State of the Union address on Tuesday — left-wing media gleefully reported a camera shot that showed CBC members grimacing in their seats.

A University of Michigan professor argued recently that the lack of women in textbooks has deterred women from the economics field.

Growth as we currently understand it — or are led to understand it — is just another establishment cudgel by which we are beaten around the head. I say if the argument is for national sovereignty — the right to make our own destiny, and maybe even our own mistakes ourselves — versus “growth”, well give me nil growth.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax cuts combined with reforms in corporate regulation are benefiting the global economy, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump will meet on Thursday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It will be the fourth meeting between the two men since Trump took office last year.

Not since before World War II has the Dow Jones Industrial Average seen a rise as powerful as what we saw in Donald Trump’s first year.

The average family of three will see their Obamacare premium increase by close to $800 in 2018. That will swallow about half of the average $1,600 tax cut middle-class families expect to receive from Republicans’ new tax reform.

Tennessee’s Republican frontrunner for U.S. Senate, Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, joins Breitbart News Sunday at the top of the show co-hosted by Breitbart News’ Washington Editor Matthew Boyle and Deputy Political Editor Amanda House.