Forbes 500 List Reveals A Disturbing Truth About Our Economy
The Forbes 500 is still, as Finance — banking, investing, hedge funds and private equity — accounted for 14 percent of the world’s 500 richest people in 2015, as listed…
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The Forbes 500 is still, as Finance — banking, investing, hedge funds and private equity — accounted for 14 percent of the world’s 500 richest people in 2015, as listed…
A task force organized by Concerned Veterans for America said the VA should begin offering subsidized private insurance to veterans and transform its healthcare department into a nonprofit corporation instead…
The hubbub over Rep. Aaron Schock’s (R-Ill.) “Downton Abbey”-themed office was just the beginning. The six-year veteran of Congress is facing his third ethics complaint in less than a month…
I was raised in a tight knit family. Both sets of my grandparents lived in my small home town, as well as all of my aunts and uncles. I went…
Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, announced last week that it will raise the wages of approximately 500,000 of its employees by lifting its base wage to $10 by 2016…
House ethics rules changed in January 2013 to allow members of Congress to fund private flights with taxpayer dollars as long as they pay for just their share of the…
LONDON — The British bank HSBC said on Monday that profit declined 15 percent in 2014, adding to the bank’s challenges as it continues to reel from revelations about efforts…
The Geneva prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Wednesday that it had opened a criminal inquiry into possible aggravated money laundering against HSBC Private Bank (Suisse), but it did…
* HSBC admits failings by Swiss subsidiary * Leaked documents allege bank helped clients to evade taxes * Allegations date back to 2006-07 * Clients include music and sports stars,…
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Harper Lee has issued a new statement expressing her happiness with the publication of her second novel, “Go Set a Watchman,” amid growing speculation that the fiercely private novelist may…
SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean Army sergeant was sentenced to death on Tuesday for killing five of his fellow conscripts and wounding seven others in a shooting rampage…
Financial executives remember the attacks in 2012 all too well and, faced with the possibility of another Romney campaign, are wary of another round of negative attention. “His formal entry…
BERLIN (AP) — Governments and private donors, among them the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, have pledged a record $7.5 billion to replenish a global vaccination program for the poor….
“This nation’s energy renaissance has been totally dependent on private investment on private land,” said Andy Radford. a senior policy advisor with the American Petroleum Institute. Critics of the Obama…
PARIS — It was close to 11 p.m. on Sunday and Stephen A. Schwarzman, chief executive of the private equity firm Blackstone Group, was sitting on a small, curved couch…
A surge of private jets—roughly 1,700—converged on Switzerland’s airports this week. The Swiss Armed Forces even had to open up a military base to accommodate the air traffic jam. That’s…
Bowing to an outcry over privacy, the Obama administration reversed itself Friday, scaling back the release of consumers’ personal information from the government’s health insurance website to private companies with…
The Obama administration is moving closer to its goal of 9.1 million people signed up for private coverage under the president’s health care law. – The law offers subsidized private…
Guilherme Leal, co-chairman of the board of directors of Natura Cosmetics, said The B-Team is issuing a challenge to companies to help eliminate greenhouse gas emissions and fight for “climate…
Nearly all campus police officers at public universities now carry guns, pepper spray and other weapons, according to a new Justice Department report, and experts say more private schools are…
How many books have you been “meaning to read”? Personally I’ve avoided contact with the third of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels since Christmas (I know it’ll be all-consuming) and am…
It comes courtesy of the award-winning cocktail waitress at Waoo!, a private restaurant run by 41-year-old Cuban entrepreneur Alain Rodriguez. “The recipe for success is maintaining the real taste of…
However, the committee concluded, for the government to know everything, it has to collect everything. The committee suggested putting automatic controls that limit who can access the data collected by…
Last week, China’s Ministry of Transport banned private cars from providing rides through taxi apps, after other drivers went on strike in some Chinese cities in early January, according to…
The White House said a new executive order targets leaders in North Korea’s government, preventing them from accessing property and entering the United States. The isolated nuclear regime, which has…
That’s a shame, because while it rules the Mediterranean in the heat of July and August, it’s also got some pretty cool moves in the dead of December. Falling temperatures…