Chris White Those worried that rock-bottom crude prices might collapse the oil industry have little to fear, according to a report by research group Wood Mackenzie. Citing analysis of production costs on 10,000 oil fields, Wood Mac said it believes only 4 percent of the global oil supply is unprofitable at oil prices below $35 per…
Richard Pollock Federal Reserve Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen overseas the country’s $16.7 trillion economy, but she appears clueless about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a small $620 million financial regulatory agency that operates within her organization. Yellen was asked Feb. 10, 2016, during her semi-annual presentation before House Financial Services Committee, if the Federal…
Connor D. Wolf The New York Labor Department released a study Thursday that purports to show the $15 minimum wage will have a positive influence on the state, but may have ignored the negative side. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo commissioned the study as part of his push to enact the $15 minimum wage…
Blake Neff A newly-released video shows students at George Mason University struggling mightily to identify Joe Biden and Ronald Reagan based on photographs. Despite being located in Fairfax, Virginia, which is less than 20 miles from Washington, D.C., the students in the video prove completely unable to identify even figures as notable as Joe Biden…
Juliegrace Brufke In a 75-20 vote Thursday, the Senate agreed to place a permanent ban on state and local Internet taxes. A provision in a larger bipartisan customs bill – the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act – that would force states to phase out the tax by 2020. Congress had passed a number of…
Jonah Bennett Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio expressed support for drafting women at the GOP debate over the weekend, but he has since said he will co-sponsor a bill that would entrench the current male-only draft requirement, unless Congress expressly expands it to include females, as well. “I do believe selective service should…
Juliegrace Brufke Martin Shkreli, the controversial former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, offered rapper Kanye West $10 million Thursday to refrain from releasing his album publicly. The notorious “pharma bro” – who was widely criticized for marking up a life-saving drug used to treat cancer and AIDS by 5000 percent – took heat for spending $2 million on the…
This documentary remained unseen for 25 years and now you can watch it here. Trump: Whats’s the Deal? takes a hard look at Trump during his hay day. It’s a damning examination of a man who has no character.
To vote or not to vote: that is the question in our hands. Which of the two is more like the art of onanism? Joey Clark [dropcap size=big]B[/dropcap]eing one who usually finds it absurd to vote for the Presidency, election day often leaves me with a peculiar feeling I can only compare to a…
By Russ Read Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gave a grim warning that failure to resolve the conflict in Syria could result in a “new world war.” “The Americans and our Arab partners must think well: do they want a permanent war?” Lavrov said to German newspaper Handelsblatt Thursday, “all sides must be compelled to sit at the negotiating…