Tag: business

Inflation fell in August amid fears of an economic slowdown following disappointing job gains in previous months, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) release on Wednesday.

State and local government workers were roughly 40% more expensive to employ than private sector employees in the second quarter of 2024, largely due to generous benefit plans, according to ...

The Federal Reserve Board's Vice Chair for Supervision, Michael Barr, announced on Tuesday in a speech that the Fed was watering down a proposed regulation hiking the amount of cash ...

Southwest Airlines Executive Chairman and former CEO Gary Kelly will retire following a Monday meeting with activist investor Elliot Investment Management, according to a letter from Kelly shared with shareholders ...

U.S. discount retail chain Big Lots filed for bankruptcy Monday as Biden-Harris era inflation continues to weaken consumer spending and push retailers out of business.

The U.S. economy lost hundreds of thousands of full-time jobs in August in a shift that suggests the U.S. is hemorrhaging higher-paying jobs.

The U.S. economy hemorrhaged manufacturing jobs in August despite the Biden administration's attempt to boost the industry with hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies.

Nonprofits are ditching Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policies at a stunning rate, according to a 2023 report by the Council on Foundations and The Commonfund Institute.

Volkswagen (VW) AG is considering shuttering factories in Germany as European car companies struggle to compete with Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers.

“Shark Tank” star Mark Cuban claimed Thursday that Vice President Kamala Harris was a moderate, citing her recent campaign proposals on tax policy during a CNBC phone interview.

A small business owner spoke with Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn about how stubbornly high inflation under the Biden-Harris administration is impacting their bottom line.

Vice President Kamala Harris' proposed "price gouging" ban has been panned as a radical policy, and some Democrats and members of the press are working to clean up the fallout.

Over a third of the more than 3 million jobs the Biden administration announced were added in initial reports between April 2023 and March 2024 did not actually exist, according ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell showed concern regarding recent cooling in the labor market during a speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's Jackson Hole Symposium on Friday.

Cryptocurrency firms have been responsible for nearly half of all corporate spending so far in the 2024 election, according to a new report released by Public Citizen.

Billions of dollars worth of U.S. trade was put in danger due to a Canadian railroad lockout of more than 9,000 employees Thursday after the parties failed to reach new ...

Rules proposed by the Biden-Harris administration in July intended to stop foreigners from purchasing land near U.S. military installations fail to cover a Chinese Communist Party-linked company building a facility ...

Insiders in Vice President Kamala Harris' orbit are reportedly walking back her suggestion that her proposed grocery "price gouging" ban would lower prices for consumers, The New York Times reported ...

A federal judge struck down a Biden administration rule on Tuesday that banned employers from using noncompete agreements, which would have affected the contracts of millions of Americans.

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) that he intends to do his part to help wealthy filers living in blue states pay ...