Is The U.S. Economy Headed For A Bout Of Stagflation? The possibility that the U.S. economy could enter a period of stagflation came into focus Thursday as the quarterly GDP report showed a sharp slowdown in growth and a surprising surge in inflation. 04/25/2024 - 1:50 pm | View Link
Global economy set to stay on a roll for the rest of the year The global economy is likely to carry its solid momentum for the rest of the year and into 2025, defying earlier expectations of a slowdown, according to a Reuters poll of economists who said stronger ... 04/25/2024 - 12:13 pm | View Link
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As EV growth slows, GM and Ford count on gas-powered trucks U.S. automakers GM and Ford face a common challenge as they prepare to report first-quarter results: explaining where profit growth will come from amid a slowdown in electric vehicle growth ... 04/24/2024 - 2:18 am | View Link
China’s rapid solar growth slows as grid seeks to keep pace Its roll-out of solar capacity slowed as grids struggled to build enough power lines and backup capacity. Read more at straitstimes.com. 04/21/2024 - 8:44 pm | View Link
U. S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan briefly stunned John Sauer, Donald Trump's attorney, by asking if the president could stage a coup.
The confrontation came Thursday during oral arguments before the high court about whether Trump enjoys presidential immunity for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
On Wednesday, Joe Biden signed into law a bill that could lead to TikTok being banned in the U. S. if ByteDance, the app’s Chinese-owned parent company, does not sell it within a year. Lawmakers are increasingly worried that the app could pose national security concerns to the U. S.
Former President Donald Trump lashed out at his former attorney general for endorsing him in the November presidential election. And I'm not sure what Bill Barr expected, but this is the status quo with the twice-impeached, four-times indicted, petty, petulant, wannabe potentate.
Bill Barr, who was one of Trump's most prominent critics, said that despite his differences with his former boss, he will support "the Republican ticket" in November.
Courtesy of TP USA, Killer Kyle Rittenhouse has been doing a tour of campuses to talk about something, but no one was sure quite what it was he wanted to speak about because he kept getting run off of campus, time and time again.
But when Killer Kyle went to Kent State - the most offensive of his stops thus far - the campus cooperated by shutting down the voices of the students that actually go there in favor of the emotionally stunted social outcast.
New York’s top court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, the watershed case that sparked Hollywood’s #MeToo movement.
The 72-year-old has been serving a 23-year sentence on rape and sexual assault charges in an upstate New York correctional facility since February 2020.
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Here’s what we know about the landmark decision.
Why was Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned?
In a 4-3 decision, the New York Court of Appeals found that the appointed judge prejudiced the disgraced movie mogul’s case by allowing prosecution to call women who were not part of the case to testify as witnesses.
What does it tell us, my students ask, that nine years after Donald Trump oozed down the golden escalator and into contention as Leader of the Free World, the American press, mainstream edition, is still arguing about how to cover him?
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Once the charge was that he gets millions of dollars in free media because reporters obsessively overcover him; now it’s that he gets a free ride because they have outrage fatigue.