Race to the Bottom

Most solar panels come from China, and using them to fuel a clean energy transition risks reliance on Uyghur slave labor in Xinjiang.

The "Made in America" plan, which would require passage by Congress, expands on Treasury Secretary Yellen's call this week for a global minimum tax.

What's the most common "people" sight in any public place, anywhere? At this point in our evolution the answer is easy: hunched over individuals tapping away on smartphones. It doesn't...

Spain's government is set to trim its 2021 growth forecast after renewed pandemic restrictions led to a worse-than-expected first quarter and pushed back the country's recovery.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his team have offered a vastly inflated projection of how many jobs his infrastructure plan would create, an account his press secretary corrected...

Addressing Janet Yellen's call for a global minimum corporate-tax rate.

Yellen is calling call for a minimum tax levy on corporations around the world in an effort to keep companies from relocating.

A female Burger King employee got choked by a customer after she argued with him about wearing a mask inside the restaurant last month.NorthJersey.com reports that 47-year-old David Siversten of Wayne, New Jersey was arrested and charged with aggravated assault after he attacked a Burger King worker...

On Tuesday, CNBC released a new expose of the players behind "ransomware" attacks — malicious software that locks down people's most critical data and demands payment in return for de-encrypting it.The insights come from Marc Bleicher, managing director of cybersecurity company Arete Advisors, which...

"It is important to work with other countries to end the pressures of tax competition and corporate tax base erosion," the Treasury Secretary said Monday.

President Joe Biden just proposed a roughly US$2 trillion infrastructure plan, which he ambitiously compared to the interstate highway system and the space race. He aims to pay for it solely by taxing companies more, including the first increase in the corporate tax rate since the 1960s.Biden said h...

After being stripped of her committee assignments, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene responded by repeatedly motioning to adjourn legislative debate, forcing House members to come to the floor and vote to remain in session -- a strategy that is infuriating Democrats and even members of her ow...

A lawsuit prepared on behalf of a Steamboat Springs man challenges the constitutionality of a Colorado law that provides extra hurdles for new shuttle services on competitive routes.

China's rare earths are underpriced due to vicious competition and face low resource utilisation, which would lead to a race to the bottom, the country's...

The crown teachers once put on Shakespeare now lies uneasy upon his head as the English playwright comes under assault from teachers who fault his un-woke attitudes regarding race, sexuality, gender and class.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that the state is planning to open a new mass vaccination site in California's Central Valley in the coming days.

SAN DIEGO — During the Trump administration's final weeks, the Department of Homeland Security quietly signed agreements with at least four states that threaten to temporarily derail President Joe Biden's efforts to undo his predecessor's immigration policies. The agreements say Arizona, Indiana, Louisiana and Texas are entitled to a 180-day

Republicans are signaling a determination to protect their 2017 tax-cut law and prevent President Biden from making good on campaign pledges to partially undo the measure.

As Donald Trump deals with members of Mar-a-Lago quitting his "sad" club during his South Florida retirement, historians are already debating his place in history."In the race to the bottom for the title of worst American president, the same few sorry names appear at the end of almost every list, jo...

I'll admit that I've been beating around the bush for some time in my business of freelancing series.  Ever since my sales 101 primer, you all have been asking me to talk about marketing. Specifically, this bit from the end of that post was of interest: Which means that the key to a good, honest […]