Laurence Ashworth | October 3, 2018 Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, made headlines in the U.K. recently for his speech at the Trades Union Congress conference in Manchester, England. His remarks were forcefully pro-union and strongly disapproving of corporations, the profit motive and the wealthy. He singled out Amazon for not paying their fair… Read More »
By Joe DelCasino | 2018 When I heard the news yesterday, I nearly fell off my chair, not because it’s a bad idea, but the timing in my humble opinion could not be worse. The Treasury Secretary is studying the ramifications of reducing capital gains taxes on investments like stocks, bonds and real estate, by… Read More »
By Amanda M. Countryman | October 2, 2018 On Sept. 30, the U.S., Canada and Mexico reached a deal to scrap NAFTA and replace it with a new trade accord, narrowly meeting a self-imposed deadline for consensus. Although U.S. President Donald Trump plans to sign the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement in 60 days, the new accord… Read More »
(NewsUSA) | October 1, 2018 Ongoing concerns about reducing carbon emissions and identifying clean energy sources continue to drive demand for clean energy products and support the development of technology that produces them. For instance, while solar panels have long been a way of minimizing one’s carbon footprint – be it a homeowner or a company… Read More »
By Jay L. Zagorsky| September 21, 2018 The U.S. Labor Department continues to release wonderful news for U.S. workers. Just this week, on Sept. 20, the agency said that the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits reached the lowest level in almost 49 years. Unemployment benefits track changes in the number of workers who… Read More »
By Simon Usherwood | September 20, 2018 The informal meeting of EU leaders in Salzburg on September 19 and 20 was not intended to be primarily about the UK or Brexit. The EU faces serious challenges around internal security and migration that come much higher up the list of priorities for most member states. And… Read More »
By Richard Holden | September 13, 2018 There’s a meme around official interest rates since the financial crisis, and it goes like this. Central banks have already cut them to nearly zero (or actually zero) but advanced economies are still languishing. Therefore cutting them further won’t achieve much. There are a number of problems with… Read More »
By Christina Fattore | September 7, 2018 The announcement last month that the U.S. and Mexico had reached an agreement to replace NAFTA without Canada surprised trade experts around the globe. A deadline of Aug. 31 was set for the Canadians to join or be left out in the cold – and hit with fresh… Read More »
By Jeffrey Kucik | September 5, 2018 President Donald Trump recently threatened to pull the United States out of the World Trade Organization “if they don’t shape up.” His argument is that the organization treats its single-largest investor unfairly, claiming that the U.S. loses “almost all of the lawsuits in the WTO.” Is Trump correct… Read More »
By Shea Karssing | September 2, 2018 The UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has published statistics the UK’s energy production and consumption. The department released four key publications under the Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics 2018: ● Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics 2018 ● UK Energy in Brief ●… Read More »