Fae Courter
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University students who sued their school for making them take online classes during the lockdowns have kind of won. The school has agreed to a settlement ...
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Despite the ongoing, upward pressure on energy prices and the impact on your wallet, the Biden administration has just canceled three major oil lease sales, two ...
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Some of America’s top companies are already pausing hiring or flat out laying off staff. Do they know something we don’t? Is a recession indeed on ...
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Florida has topped the nation in terms of price and rent increases. Floridians are being forced to move out of their homes—with the average rent in ...
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The Senate Judiciary Committee just passed a bill called “NOPEC,” which would open up OPEC to U.S. lawsuits. OPEC is an international cartel of thirteen countries, ...
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Running a brick-and-mortar clothing store is not easy. Many of these stores have either been crushed by competition from e-commerce or shuttered by the pandemic. But one ...
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The Disinformation Governance board is making many people concerned, and Republicans are calling it the “Ministry of Truth,” a fictional propaganda department from George Orwell’s “1984.”
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The world is currently facing high inflation and supply chain problems. General Motors and Ford both beat Wall Street expectations on the bottom line, but challenges ...
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Russian oil giant Gazprom says it’s cutting off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria. Both countries have refused to pay for gas in Russian rubles, as ...
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There’s a very old rule that excludes souvenirs from being taxed. But now, that rule is being exploited.
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Twitter has accepted Elon Musk’s $44 billion offer. The deal will put the world’s richest man in charge of one of the most influential social media ...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just signed the bill stripping Disney of its self-governing status. What are the economic consequences? Will taxes rise for Floridians?
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Florida has passed a bill that strips Disney of its special self-governing status. If it happens, Walt Disney World will no longer be its own little government.
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CalPERS, America’s largest state public pension fund, wants to kick Warren Buffett out of his chairman role at Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett founded the company. CalPERS says that ...
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Utility companies want to upgrade our aging power grid. Currently, it’s not always dependable, with some parts of America experiencing long outages. However, we’re also experiencing high ...
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Now for the first time ever, Amazon is placing a 5 percent fuel and inflation surcharge on sellers. Don’t be surprised if the products you buy ...
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The ruble surged to a five-month high Friday after Russia cut its interest rate. In February, it raised the key rate all the way to 20 percent in response to Western ...
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The European Union is proposing more sanctions—in fact, the fifth round so far. And for the first time, this round of sanctions involves Russian energy.
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Amid soaring energy costs, a German official is telling his people to “wear warmer sweaters.” And those costs could apparently quadruple if Russia stops sending energy—which ...
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The president wants to tax wealthy Americans even before they’ve made a profit on their investments—a tax on unrealized capital gains.
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The United States has just agreed to give Europe far more natural gas than it currently does. President Joe Biden even flew over to Belgium to ...
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European countries are taking in massive numbers of Ukrainian refugees. More people have left Ukraine in just one month than left Syria throughout 2015. In fact, ...
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After sanctions following the annexation of Crimea, Russia tried to become less reliant on imports. But those efforts don’t seem to be having much of an ...
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Oil prices have fallen pretty significantly this week. So why haven’t we seen gas prices come down?
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Disney was confronted by two activist investors during its annual shareholder meeting, over the company’s relationship with China and its race-based employee training.
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Russia has officially legalized patent theft—through official government decree—and it’s planning on seizing the assets of every firm that leaves.
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Global oil prices continued to climb Monday. Brent Crude is up over 4 percent—to $123 a barrel. The American benchmark, a barrel of WTI is now ...
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Russia now has control of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. What happened, and what might Russia’s Vladimir Putin want there?
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Sanctions aren’t just targeting the Russian government and central bank. Russian oligarchs are a small group of people who gained immense wealth after the collapse of ...
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The value of Russia’s currency continues to fall, the sanctions continue to hurt the economy, and more businesses are ending operations there. How can Russia get ...