Brian Brenberg, Fox News contributor and professor of economics at King’s College, reacts to the November ADP report. The explosion of US government borrowing over the past 15 years has been fueled not by loans from China and Japan, but by the purchase of Treasury bills by US financial institutions, state governments and other national …
Before COVID, business in Beijing was booming. Dercon says one of the reasons that state-led development in China has been so successful is that the country had a strong state to begin with. Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bloomberg via Getty Images Before COVID, business in Beijing was booming. Dercon says one …
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Amazon workers and activists in 30 countries marked the traditional start of the holiday shopping season with a series of walkouts and protests demanding better wages and working conditions. In Manhattan, activists, unions and Amazon workers marched past company founder Jeff Bezos’ penthouse in the Tony Flatiron neighborhood. Outside St. Louis, a few dozen workers …
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Ranked: The best countries to retire in the world Our world population is aging. By 2050, the OECD predicts that 30% of people in the world will be aged 65 or over. While some countries are relatively prepared to handle this increase in the elderly population, others are already feeling the pressure and grappling with …
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Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers in about 40 countries plan to take part in protests and walkouts to coincide with Black Friday sales, one of the busiest days of the year for online shopping. line. Employees in the US, UK, India, Japan, Australia, South Africa and across Europe are demanding better wages and working conditions …
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OTTAWA — Decades-high inflation has Canadians worried about the rising cost of living, but as bleak as things may seem, Canada appears to be doing better than many other major economies. Its national inflation rate is still lower than that of the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom, whose year-on-year inflation reached …
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