... se in the federal minimum wage and urged its competitors to follow its lead as the union-led “Fight for Fifteen” movement pushes for higher remuneration. Amazon’s move comes when US unemployment is at ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
... orts. The Federal Reserve on Wednesday (Thursday in Hong Kong) lifted the benchmark overnight lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point to a range of 2.00 percent to 2.25 percent, its third rate ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
... with the federal government in the early 1980s. He was named assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration, became assistant secretary of state during the presidency of George Bush Sr., and ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
... t filed a federal court in New York, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Musk had put out "false and misleading” tweets last month about potentially taking Tesla private, Reuters reports ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has a new message for financial markets: watch the data on jobs, wages and inflation for signals on monetary policy – not the US central bank’s words or forecast ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
China’s central bank left short-term rates unchanged on Thursday, choosing not to follow a benchmark interest rate rise by the US Federal Reserve despite the risk that it could that it could put renew ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-27
The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates and left intact its plans to steadily tighten monetary policy, as it forecast that the US economy would enjoy at least three more years of growth, Reuters ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-27
With the Federal Reserve widely expected to raise interest rates on Wednesday, financial markets are focused on whether signs of an acceleration in US economic growth will prompt the central bank to r ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-26
... EU5, the Federal Motor Transport Authority has declared an engine charge control as not being in line with the law. This was about nitrogen oxide, not CO2.” Blume said Porsche is owning up to the iss ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-24
... – the US Federal Reserve, the People’s Bank of China, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England – now hold some US$20 trillion in assets on their balance sheets. Critics of the program argue, ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-24
... lier that federal prosecutors had opened a criminal fraud investigation. Tesla did not say whether the Justice Department probe was criminal or civil. Musk surprised investors on Aug. 7 with his plan ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-19
... tes for a federal jobs guarantee have been gaining momentum on the traditional left. But while such a program could employ millions of workers to deliver basic public services and rebuild and moderniz ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-18
New York state has launched a lawsuit against the US federal government, calling for voiding of a decision to award national bank charters to online lenders and payment companies. The state's top bank ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-17
... ng at the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy in Quantico, the United States; the China Executive Leadership Academy in Shanghai; the Chinese Academy of Governance, Beijing; and the Royal ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-14
... t. The US Federal Reserve will thus continue to raise the federal funds rate from its current 2 percent to at least 3.5 percent by 2020, and that will likely push up short- and long-term interest rate ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-14
... mand. The Federal Reserve has warned for two years about rising rates and policy normalization. Yet governments ignored this and continued to increase imbalances as well as rising debt in US dollars. ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-12
... ubject to federal laws. US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Jay Clayton said in February he believed most of the sales of new tokens, known as initial coin offerings, should be considered secu ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-12
... ky Act, a federal law that allows the US government to target human rights violators around the world with freezes on any US assets, US travel bans, and prohibitions on Americans doing business with t ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-12
... ependence federal political party Bloc Québécois swept to an unprecedented victory in the general election in 1993 and became the second-largest party in the Canadian federal parliament. Then in the f ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-11
... , and the Federal Reserve, all of which had suggested – based on the same information available to Stiglitz when he wrote his paper – that implicit guarantees to Fannie Mae were potentially costly. I ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-07
