Category: Economics
Cruz delivers all-night floor speech against ObamaCare as vote looms
After an all-night marathon speech decrying ObamaCare, Sen. Ted Cruz was still going strong Wednesday morning as he staged a last-ditch effort to rally support for Republicans’ bid to defund the health care law....
China, Europe orders signal economic healing but U.S. disappoints
(Reuters) – A flood of new orders gave a boost to European and Chinese firms in September although weakness in U.S. factory activity tempered evidence of a healing global economy. Purchasing managers’ indexes, surveying thousands...
Obama to ask business leaders to push Congress to raise debt limit
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama will appeal to business leaders on Wednesday to urge Congress to approve an increase in the U.S. debt limit and avoid a default that is possible as early as mid-October. Obama is to...
Republicans move to halt ObamaCare ‘bailout’ for angry unions
Capitol Hill Republicans are trying to stop the Obama administration from offering labor unions a sweetheart deal on ObamaCare, as the White House tries to quell a simmering rebellion from Big Labor over the...
U.S. SPENT $1,010,354,195 ON SYRIAN HUMANITARIAN AID 2012-2013
U.S. taxpayers have spent at least $1,010,354,195 on Syrian humanitarian aid for fiscal years 2012 and 2013, according to official numbers from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID, which was created by President...
