“My lawyers will tear that contract apart before breakfast,” said numerous movie and TV actors playing the role of the arrogant corporate antagonist. The variety of threats rings with a tone of authenticity, given the American public’s largely negative view of lawyers as unscrupulous, ...
Last month, President Biden called for a “gas tax holiday” to ease the pain of gas prices that have climbed nearly $2 a gallon this year. However, doing so could result in a $10 billion deficit for the nation’s Highway Trust Fund. Biden has asked Congress to find “other revenues” to ...
If your household is affected by inflation, you might want to have a word with your elected officials. A new report from the American Consumer Institute’s Center for Citizen Research says excessive spending, regulations and restrictions on domestic energy production have driven up prices for ...
Even as Europe has been dealing with its hottest summer on record, it has been fearfully aware that it may face its worst winter since the one at the end of World War II, from 1944 to 1945. Electricity shortages and unpayable fuel prices for many households are in store for ...
Imagine a formal White House meal. Glistening silver, glittering china, gleaming crystal. And the food! The chow there is good. Except once during the 20th century when the woman charged with feeding the president served meals that were so bad that guests cringed. That hottest ticket in ...
Chinese rhetoric over Taiwan is getting more strident all the time. It’s hard to believe the Chinese will go beyond the kind of big talk we’ve been hearing since Chiang Kai-shek fled there with his defeated forces before the victory of Mao’s Red Army on the mainland in 1949, but the ...
