Ellen Gaugler remembers driving her father to the Bethlehem Steel mill, where he spent his working years hauling beams off the assembly line and onto rail cars. When the Pennsylvania plant shut down about two decades ago, Ms. Gaugler thought it was the last time she or anyone in Bethlehem would come to its gates […]
Read moreCongress is speeding toward a budget plan that, in the name of cutting taxes, lets the government collect $1.5 trillion less revenue for the next 10 years. One big problem: the government needs more revenue as it is — a lot more. The biggest reason is as simple as it is inevitable: millions more Americans […]
Read moreAs President Donald Trump and the GOP rush to push tax reform, small-business owners and advocates are speaking out on what taxing issues are crippling them and the reforms they would like to see. With the sector creating two-thirds of U.S. jobs, freeing up money to help them invest more in their business is critical, […]
Read moreA far-left separatist party in Catalonia has called for “mass civil disobedience” after the Spanish central government sought to crush the region’s independence movement by triggering its so-called “nuclear option” over the weekend. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced plans to dissolve the Catalan parliament on Saturday, under a previously unused article of the country’s […]
Read moreThe populism threat in Europe continues to worry investors despite a string of election results that suggested the movement was in decline, according to the CEO of Chantico Global. At the beginning of the year, possible far-right election victories in the Netherlands, France and Germany were perceived as the biggest threat to European politics. However, […]
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Killing British ISIS fighters the only option 'in almost every case,' UK minister says
The only way of dealing with British ISIS fighters in Syria “in almost every case” is to kill them, a British government minister told the BBC on Sunday. Rory Stewart, an international development minister and former diplomat, said converts to the terror group should expect to be killed because of the “serious danger” they posed […]
Read moreThe British government must act urgently to secure a Brexit transition deal or risk losing jobs and investment in the country, business leaders representing millions of workers are due to warn. In a draft letter due to be sent to Brexit minister David Davis, Britain’s five leading business organizations said a deal to provide a […]
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'Wolf of Wall Street' warns raising money through ICOs is the 'biggest scam ever'
Jordan Belfort, the infamous penny-stock broker formerly known as the “Wolf of Wall Street,” has urged investors to dismiss the current craze of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), calling them the “biggest scam ever.” In an interview with The Financial Times published Sunday, Belfort warned promoters of ICOs were “perpetuating a massive scam of the highest […]
Read moreThe websites used for presentation of the Czech Republic’s election results were hacked on Saturday afternoon, the Czech Statistical Office (CSU) said on Sunday, adding that the vote count was not affected. Czechs voted on Friday and Saturday in the parliamentary election, with the results then shown on two websites that CSU maintains with an […]
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Europe shares set for mixed open as investors look to earnings, Catalonia crisis
European markets are expected to open mixed on Monday morning, as Spain’s constitutional crisis continued to aggravate investors’ concerns about political unity in the region. Looking to the major bourses, the U.K.’s FTSE 100 is expected to open 3 points higher at 7,519, while the German DAX is set to start on a positive note, […]
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