by Carmen Reinicke | Feb 19, 2018 | Economy, Newest
Retail sales declined in January, failing to meet analysts’ expectations that growth would hold steady going into 2018 and signaling more cautious consumer spending. The monthly report from the U.S. Census bureau showed a 0.3 percent decrease in retail sales from...
by Sharif Paget | Feb 16, 2018 | Economy, Newest
U.S. consumer prices rose more than expected in January due to gasoline, shelter and medical care, raising concerns that inflation is picking up and interest rates will follow. The consumer price index rose by 0.5 percent in January, exceeding the economist median...
by Alix Langone | Jun 1, 2017 | Canada, Economy, Housing, International Trade, Jobs, Lumber, Newest
President Trump has proposed a tariff on Canadian softwood lumber, but American lumber is becoming more expensive as a result. The new timber tariff proposed by the president – an almost 20% tax on softwood lumber imported from Canada – may sound beneficial for...
by Elizabeth Ramanand | May 30, 2017 | Autos, Featured, Newest
Freely roaming an open world, with fire arms, speeding down highways throughout the streets of New York might not fully be reality in city but it’s certainly the case in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV, which is being used to advance real life driverless cars....
by Teddy Grant | May 30, 2017 | Economy, Newest, Regulations
Depending on what side of the aisle you’re on, government regulations can be seen as necessary measures to roll back abuses in certain industries or job killer that stifles businesses and slows the economy. President Trump believes the latter and has promised to roll...
by William Mathis | May 23, 2017 | Durable Goods, Economy, Featured, Jobs, Newest
Five years ago, Rishvanth Kora, 31, was about to finish a graduate program in electrical engineering at the University of Kentucky, when he finally got a job offer. The Fortune 500 manufacturing company Cummins wanted a worker with an advanced engineering degree badly...