Japan’s recent elections highlighted a poignant issue facing almost every industrialized nation, from America to Asia: the Japanese do not want mass migration, but their own demographics are collapsing so quickly that they might not be able to resist importing the next generation of young workers.
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday reported that 25 provincial authorities are set to begin distributing “maternity allowances” to women on November 1.
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) responded to a question on if she would support extending healthcare subsidies for more than a year, but with an income cap of around $200,000 by saying, “I’m just
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) stated that we “need” healthcare “subsidies right now.” But extending them for a year as part of a deal to re-open the government is “not acceptable to us.” Co-host
During an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday, House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) stated that he doesn’t regret Democrats putting an expiration date on the healthcare subsidies they passed because “We were able to extend it through the end of
Only two weeks after the Politburo signaled it would make no further efforts to stimulate weak consumer demand, the national government announced it would offer subsidized personal loans to prod consumers into spending more money.
Coca-Cola decision in 1984 to use high-fructose corn syrup instead of real cane sugar was caused by Cold War diplomacy, subsidized overproduction, and a technological leap that turned surplus grain into shelf-stable sweetener.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Harris-Walz surrogate Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that it makes sense for 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris to propose raising corporate income taxes to fund investment in subsidies for research
Courts in Hong Kong heard four liquidation suits against Chinese developers from their frustrated creditors last week, a record number of cases to hit the courts at the same time.
Chinese officials recommend using “Marxist Population Theory” to “analyze” China’s declining demographics.
Elon Musk paid a surprise visit to China to secure Chinese government approval for the automatic driving features of his Teslas.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told China that the Biden administration will “not accept” a flood of cheap industry-destroying exports.
South Korea on Sunday announced more aggressive measures to stave off the worst population crisis in the world, boosting child care subsidies into a “monthly salary for parents” and raising the already sizable cash bonus for childbirth, plus more paid family leave and subsidized mortgages for the parents of newborn children.
Automotive industry analyst Michael Dunne warned on Friday that China has become “the world’s electric vehicle (EV) Godzilla, poised to smash everything in its path.”
On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “The Open,” acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su responded to a question on why the Biden administration is using tax dollars to give wealthy people credits to buy expensive electric cars by stating that they’re
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Last Call,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that “a lot” of the electric vehicle subsidies are “ending up in places where workers are not represented” while CEOs make a ton of money and companies have
Massive graveyards filled with electric vehicles were discovered across China, ostensibly caused by the collapse of ride-sharing companies.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), an international organization heavily funded by the United States, on Friday reached an agreement with Pakistan to provide $3 billion in short-term financial aid. The Pakistani bond market perked up at news that a potential debt default crisis has been delayed, but not enough to suggest that investors see a bright future for Pakistan’s finances.
On Tuesday’s edition of CBS’s “America Decides,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) stated that if Democrats want to increase revenue as part of a package to raise the debt ceiling, they should stop green subsidies for big companies. Roy said, “[W]e’re
Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck proposed a plan for up to 80 per cent of industrial energy costs to be subsidised amid green agenda failures.
Thousands of demonstrators marched through the cities of Indonesia on Tuesday, protesting against the first hike in government-subsidized fuel prices in eight years. The blowback may prove to be the stiffest challenge to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s popularity since his re-election in 2019.
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on Tuesday revealed direct federal subsidies to the broadcast industry during the pandemic exceeded $100 million, in addition to a $36.5 million giveaway from waiving license fees.
President Joe Biden claimed the “Inflation Reduction Act,” signed into law on Tuesday, gives tax credits to American consumers for electric vehicles “if those vehicles were made in America.”
Even as House and Senate Democrats look to further subsidize electric vehicles, the New York Times admits that the cars “remain largely the province of the rich.”
A Democrat deal, agreed to by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-CA) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), subsidizes electric vehicles made in Canada and Mexico — gutting the “Buy American” rules initially included in the legislation.
The hidden green subsidies and taxes on electricity bills is the “biggest silent rip-off in Britain” according to Brexit’s Nigel Farage.
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) teachers and other district staff with young children will be returning to in-person learning with a $500 per month child care subsidy in order to further ensure schools are staffed appropriately, the district said.
Democrats in Connecticut are hoping private sector insurance companies will help them expand health care in the state by having the businesses subsidize coverage not only for low-income residents but for migrants who are living in the state illegally.
China’s Ministry of Commerce announced Thursday that it will impose temporary anti-subsidy duties on Australian wine imports starting December 11.
A second day of negotiating over the post-Brexit EU budget is looking to end again in deadlock with member-states split between the “Frugals”, who want less spending; the poorer, mostly former Soviet satellite states who want more money; and the European Parliament which wants the budget period increased to a massive €1.32 trillion to help turn the EU carbon neutral.
European leaders are said to be “fighting like ferrets in a sack” over how to fill the €12 billion annual hole left by the UK’s exit from the EU.
The latest Subsidy Tracker reveals that some of the most prominent Silicon Valley tech corporations enjoy $840 billion in government subsidies.
President Donald Trump’s decision earlier this month to end federal subsidies to insurance companies on the Obamacare exchanges will, ironically, allow many more individuals to qualify for free health insurance.
California and New York will lead 16 states, including D.C., into a lawsuit to preserve subsidies to health insurance companies on the Obamacare exchanges, after a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Tuesday.
Tom Miller, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) specializing in health insurance regulation, discussed the Senate’s Obamacare reform bill with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily.
Despite President-elect Donald Trump picking hard-core Obamacare foe Republican Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services, California’s huge Obamacare exchange thinks it can survive the promised “repeal and replace.”
AUSTIN, Texas — Local firefighters are pushing back against a lawsuit alleging they are spending a significant amount of time engaging in union activities when they should be answering calls.
The only good news from California’s wildly subsidized Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is that it has reduced its rate of incinerating wild birds from 10 to 2 per hour.
The news that insurance giant Aetna was canceling future ObamaCare expansion plans and also pulling out of most ObamaCare markets has fused the Affordable Care Act bomb for one final, cataclysmic detonation. The whole rotten scheme is falling apart, and it’s
The Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that leaving the European Union (EU) would cost the British farming industry £330 million. Yet Britain currently pays ten times that figure to subsidise its European farming competitors, meaning the government could easily
