US-China trade talks: Is a thaw on the cards after Trump-Xi call?
Top US and Chinese officials are meeting in London in a bid to defuse trade tensions over rare earth minerals and advanced technology after a phone call between Presidents Donald...
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India-Pakistan conflict claims an unlikely victim: Himalayan pink salt
For the past three decades, Vipan Kumar has been importing Himalayan pink salt from Pakistan to sell in India. The 50-year-old trader who is based in Amritsar in Punjab, the...
Putin Warned of Dual Threat to Russian Economy: ‘Countdown to a Crisis’
Moscow’s economy is sliding toward the brink of “stagflation,” according to a new report published by a Russian economics research organization close to the country’s government. The report’s author, Dmitry...
It’s the economy, estúpido: New Jersey governor’s race tests Democrats’ efforts to win back Latinos
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A congresswoman and former U.S. Navy helicopter pilot secured the endorsement of the highest-ranking Hispanic official in her state. A mayor highlighted his arrest by immigration...
‘Open prison’: The forced labour driving India’s $5 trillion economy dream
Amid the relentless clatter of machinery, Ravi Kumar Gupta feeds a roaring steel furnace with scrap, blown metal and molten iron. He carefully adds chemicals tailored to the type of...
Transportation chief seeks to weaken fuel economy standards, calls Biden-era rule ‘illegal’
DETROIT (AP) — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a rule Friday that Biden-era for gas-powered cars and trucks are illegal and moved to reverse them, paving the way for...
How to Land a Job in 2025—Even If Everyone Says It’s the Worst Time to Graduate
The economic outlook has been shaky this year for recent graduates and others searching for employment opportunities, and may be shakier still after a slowdown in job growth last month. ...
Jobs data from May could show a mostly stable economy, but economists say Trump tariffs will soon bite
Signs are growing that President Donald Trump’s unprecedented tariffs strategy is starting to take a bigger bite out of the U.S. economy. Still, the latest jobs data from the Bureau...
U.S. hiring likely slowed to 130,000 new jobs last month amid uncertainty over Trump’s policies
WASHINGTON (AP) — The American job market likely continued to slow last month, hobbled by worries over President Donald Trump’s trade wars, deportations and purges of the federal workforce. The...
Breitbart Business Digest: Why New American Populists Want to Fund the Government with Tariffs
Tax Consumption, Not Production, to Fund the Government For years, the economic establishment has begged the United States to do one thing: tax consumption, not production. Consumption taxes don’t penalize...
