Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused a CNBC reporter of purposefully acting as if she did not hear his answer to her question regarding Russia’s supply of natural gas to Europe, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reported Thursday.
President Joe Biden and his administration released a 40-page report on Friday on how climate change threatens the U.S. economy.
The White House continues struggling to move beyond the fact President Joe Biden wants to spend trillions of dollars during a period of high economic inflation.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Sunday urged officials of his country’s ruling party to work on improving citizens’ quality of life amid a “grim” economic situation, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Monday.
Global food prices have reached a decade high and increased for the second month in a row in September, according to a Thursday report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
A 65-year-old Virginia Vietnam veteran has been unable to find work since losing his job as a go-kart mechanic at the start of the pandemic.
The Chinese government is allegedly blocking domestic airlines from purchasing “tens of billions of dollars” in planes from Boeing, a U.S. multinational aerospace company, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told reporters on Tuesday.
Islamabad has held talks with Taliban leaders in recent days in the hopes of expanding China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in Pakistan to neighboring Afghanistan, Pakistan’s envoy to Kabul told Reuters on Monday.
Several suppliers of Apple and Tesla have been forced to suspend production at Chinese factories in recent days to comply with strict energy rationing mandated by local governments in response to a nationwide power crisis, Reuters reported Monday.
China’s government on Monday vowed to “reduce non-medical abortion” in the country by 2035 as the world’s most populous nation continues efforts to boost its birth rate, which has declined in recent years.
Tokyo said Thursday it “cannot accept” Moscow’s recent proposal to establish a special tariff-free economic zone on disputed islands administered by Russia but claimed by Japan, Kyodo News reported.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro devoted much of his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to touting his country’s business environment and talking up progress on Amazon deforestation, but for much of the media, it was difficult to hear Bolsonaro over the sound of him not being vaccinated.
A plurality of Americans remain pessimistic about the future of the economy, predicting it will be “weaker” one year from now, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday found.
Fifty-six percent of Americans disapprove of the direction of the country after President Biden’s first eight months in office according to a Fox News poll.
The U.S. has successfully prevented the Taliban terror group from accessing roughly $10 billion in reserves in Afghanistan’s central bank, the New York Post reported Tuesday.
New York passed a law last week that will outlaw the sale of new passenger vehicles that produce emissions by the year 2035.
House Democrats released 645 pages of the $3.5 trillion spending bill on Friday, revealing a far-left wish list that includes global warming, tax increases, expanded child tax credit, medicare expansion, and a national paid-leave program.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a regional economic bloc, suspended the membership of Guinea on Wednesday after a military coup deposed the country’s government on Sunday.
Credit Suisse is allegedly closing a bank account operated by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei due to his alleged “criminal record,” despite the dissident saying he has never been convicted of a crime, Ai told Reuters in an article published Tuesday.
President Joe Biden is failing on nearly every single major issue for Americans as support for his presidency continues to drop.
The United States economy only created 235,000 jobs in August, a disastrous number as analysts predicted as many as 740,000.
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan, to protest an ongoing, months-long closure of banks in the national capital and across the country on Saturday, Afghanistan’s Khaama Press reported.
Reports this week indicate the Afghan economy is not faring well under Taliban domination, thanks to a combination of public terror, Taliban mismanagement, and the termination of foreign aid programs that were propping up civil services.
The Taliban terror group on Tuesday claimed Afghanistan “will no longer be a hub for poppy cultivation or for the drug business” now that the jihadist group has gained control of the country, Afghanistan’s Tolo News reported Tuesday.
Left-wing billionaire George Soros once again warned that Chinese leader Xi Jinping is “the most dangerous enemy of open societies in the world” in an op-ed published Friday by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
Recently inaugurated communist President Pedro Castillo is seeking to expand political and trade ties to China, Reuters reported on Friday, with little room to grow given China’s status as Peru’s largest trade partner already and Peru’s participation in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Lawmakers in Kenya are planning legislation to ban companies from importing fish from China, the country’s Daily Nation reported Tuesday, after years of controversy involving exploitation of natural resources and reports of Beijing selling the African country poisoned fish.
Samoa’s new prime minister confirmed to Reuters on Wednesday she will cancel plans by her predecessor to build a China-funded port development on the island, the news agency reported Friday.
The government of northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state unveiled draft legislation on Sunday proposing a “two-child” policy that would punish couples who choose to have more than two children, India’s NDTV news site reported on Monday.
Chinese internet censors are deleting online forums promoting the millennial phenomenon known as “lying flat,” in which young Chinese people quit their jobs to opt out of an overworked lifestyle the Chinese Communist Party has pushed in recent years, the Hindustan Times reported Tuesday.
President Joe Biden again snapped at reporters on Friday after delivering remarks to celebrate the substantial employment gains in June.
The Indonesian Pediatric Society in Bali on Wednesday urged parents on the island to limit their children’s outdoor activities citing an alleged risk to their health from the Chinese coronavirus, the Indonesian news site Coconuts Bali reported Thursday.
President Joe Biden boasted of “historic progress” handling the economy Friday, even though the number of jobs created in May disappointed expectations of many economic analysts.
Indonesia’s Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy said Monday it may soon “require” Indonesian civil servants to work from Bali for a limited number of weeks throughout the year as part of plans to “formalize” a recent tourism initiative designed to boost the island’s economy.
The $8.2 trillion number dwarfs Trump’s proposed $4.094 trillion budget for 2018.
Larry Summers, a former economic advisor to former President Barack Obama, warned President Joe Biden on Monday that inflation is a looming threat to the United States economy.
Hong Kong Express Airways placed a limited number of galley boxes and waste trolleys used on its flights for sale on its website this week as the budget airline struggles to offset the financial losses suffered over the past year due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday taunted the White House over the “alarming” and “disappointing” jobs report from April, suggesting the unexpectedly weak 266,000 jobs created “cast doubt over the recovery path of the world’s biggest economy.”
Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) said April’s jobs report was a function of paying Americans not to work, as opposed fears of coronavirus.
Friday’s jobs report is a five-alarm disaster. Do not let the fake news media spin this failure any other way. The expected one million jobs collapsed to about one quarter of that with just 266,000 new jobs, which is such a dreadful number we would shrug at it during normal economic times.
