How To Reign In The New ‘Digital Economy’
At the annual World Economic Forum underway right now in Davos, Switzerland, the agenda typically vacillates from human rights topics to environmental concerns to financial polemics. But there’s no stopping…
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Eurozone Economy Shows Hints of Improvement, Survey Indicates
FRANKFURT — The eurozone economy appears to have perked up a bit at the start of 2015, an industry survey showed on Friday, just a day after the European Central…
Rethinking The Three Rs: Why We Need A New Model Of Education
In America, traditional schooling has frequently drawn inspiration from the trusty “three Rs”: writing, reading and arithmetic. But as the technology sector continues to boom, educators have realized that this…
Europe says no reason to ease pressure on Russia over Ukraine
Related: Ukraine president says no room for negotiations with Russia Sanctions left Russia more exposed to the collapse in oil prices that is wreaking havoc on its economy, still heavily…
Talk of Wealth Gap Prods the G.O.P. to Refocus
The president laid the groundwork for middle-class economics during his State of the Union address on Tuesday. WASHINGTON — President Obama’s push for a new “middle-class economics” may go nowhere…
Our Economy Is Growing ’90s Fast, So The State Of The Union Set To A ’90s Sitcom Audience Just Makes Sense
Barack Obama’s bringing back the ’90s. ALL of the ’90s. In Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, President Obama touted our new revamped economy. According to the president, “Our…
Republicans Really Don’t Like Obama Taking Credit For Anything
WASHINGTON — After spending the past six years laying the blame for most of the nation’s ills on President Barack Obama and his policies, Republicans sure weren’t happy that he…
Planet Politics: The U.S. Is Back, But Still Cautious In The World
WASHINGTON — The speech is, after all, called the State of the Union, not the State of the World. So perhaps President Barack Obama can be excused for dwelling on…
In State of the Union, Obama Sets an Ambitious Agenda
President Obama giving his State of the Union address to a Republican-controlled Congress.” WASHINGTON — President Obama claimed credit on Tuesday for an improving economy and defiantly told his Republican…
Microsoft’s Mark Penn, A Former Clinton Adviser, Weighs In On 2016
Mark Penn, executive vice president and chief strategy officer at Microsoft, weighed in on the 2016 U.S. presidential election during an interview with HuffPost Live at Davos on Wednesday. Penn,…
Obama’s State Of The Union Address 2015 Gets Fact Checked
The U.S. may not have “risen from recession” quite as rousingly as President Barack Obama suggested in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night. Seven years after that severe…
State Of The Union Text: Read Obama’s Full Remarks
President Barack Obama delivered the 2015 State of the Union speech on Tuesday in front of a joint session of Congress, laying out his policy vision for the next year….
Here’s A Preview Of What Obama Will Say In The State Of The Union
President Barack Obama will deliver the annual State of The Union address on Tuesday evening. With the economy improving, Obama is set to unveil an ambitious agenda for his final…
Show This Chart To The Next Person Who Isn’t Worried About Income Inequality
If you find it hard to grasp just how unequal the global economy is, here’s one stat that should put it all in perspective: The richest 80 people on Earth…
Give the unemployed a second chance
Even though the 46-year-old mother of five has an accounting certificate and a mind for numbers, prospective employers “don’t so much as look at me because of my age or…
Why 2015 will be defining year for India
If there were an annual prize for the “World’s Most Hopeful Economy,” it would likely go to India. After years of disappointing returns, the world’s largest democracy rediscovered vigor in…
Republicans will have to spin struggling state economies in 2016
That comes in contrast to an increasingly rosy economic picture nationally, with a strong December jobs report that capped off the best year in terms of economic growth for the…
Big banks face big hurdles
And just last week, Citi said that it was cutting the bonuses of some of its traders. So it will be very interesting to see if BofA, Goldman and JPMorgan…
Why 2015 could be the year Europe starts to unravel
Few European Union politicians will have raised a New Year glass in expectation of a brighter future. Many fear that 2015 could be the year in which both the euro…
America is roaring back to life
For much of the past year, the Republican Party has been doing its best to scare people. Its electoral strategy was dependent on people feeling that we are a nation…