Topline First lady Jill Biden said Tuesday she has “not yet” spoken to her husband, President Joe Biden, about whether he will seek a second term in the Oval Office, amid questions about the 79-year-o...
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Biden Sleepwalking Into New National Security Disaster
Supplying Ukraine with military equipment has the U.S. now running low on certain types of ammunition and weapons. This episode of What’s Ahead asks, “Why?” The answer is the Pentagon’s gross sloth an...
White House Tries To Avert $2 Billion A Day Transportation Strike
Topline Biden administration officials are continuing to push for a resolution between major freight companies and unions representing thousands of rail workers after some unsuccessful negotiations ov...
The House Stablecoin Bill Should Foster Innovation And Competition, Not Squash Them
House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters, of Calif., right, speaks as ranking … [+] member Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., listens during a hearing of the House Financial Servic...
White House Inks Strategy To Grow Trillion Dollar US Bioeconomy
White House Inks Strategy to Grow Trillion Dollar US Bioeconomy Dall-e x John Cumbers The US bioeconomy is booming. Valued at nearly one trillion dollars and predicted to grow globally to over $30 tri...
Rep. Tim Ryan Suggests Biden Shouldn’t Run In 2024—Joining These Other Democrats
Topline Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio)–the Democratic nominee for Ohio’s open Senate seat–told a Youngstown TV station Thursday that he believes his party needs to make a “generational...
Biden, Macron, Trudeau, Zelensky Other World Leaders Mourn Death Of Queen Elizabeth
Condolences poured in after the announcement of Queen Elizabeth’s death at the age of 96 on Thursday at her residence at Balmoral, ending a historic 70-year reign on the throne. In a statement release...
Blinken—On Surprise Visit To Kyiv—Announces $2 Billion In U.S. Military Aid For Ukraine
Topline The U.S. will send $2 billion in military support to Ukraine and its European neighbors threatened by Russia, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced during a visit to Kyiv on Thursday, bo...
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve Is At Its Lowest Level Since 1984
HOUSTON, TEXAS – APRIL 01: A person pumps gas at a Shell gas station on April 01, 2022 in Houston, … [+] Texas. The Biden administration announced Thursday that the U.S. will release up to...
Buy These 2 Oil Stocks For Big Dividend Hikes (Thanks To Biden)
Declining row of crude oil barrels getty We aren’t falling for this “head fake” oil plunge. Instead we’re buying what I like to call the “Biden barrel discount”— grabbing beaten-down oil stocks with s...
Russia Tightens The Geopolitical Energy Screws On Germany And The EU
The natural gas storage facility operated by Astora GmbH & Co KG, one of the largest in Western … [+] Europe and formerly controlled by Gazprom Germania GmbH, in Rehden, Germany, on Tuesday,...
Biden Taps Veteran Democrat John Podesta As Clean Energy Spending Czar
Topline President Joe Biden announced Friday that former Obama and Clinton Administration official John Podesta will oversee $370 billion in clean energy spending authorized in the Inflation Reduction...
Biden’s Whole-Of-Government Interventionism Does Not Reflect The Soul Of The Nation
In addressing real and imagined Threats to Democracy,TM there are perhaps choices other than Ultra-MAGA and Biden’s Ultra-spendy pillage people. White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre almost dail...
Here’s Why Biden Student Loan Cancelation Is “Profoundly Wrong And Harmful”
This segment of What’s Ahead walks us through how damaging President Biden’s cancelation of student loans will be for the economy, higher education and, indeed, the social fabric of our society. Biden...
Biden Castigates MAGA Republicans In Scathing Speech Against Trumpism
Topline President Joe Biden spent the better part of his highly anticipated Thursday night speech railing against “MAGA Republicans” in front of supporters in Philadelphia, portraying his darkest view...
New Job, Career Paths From Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS Act And Infrastructure Bill
Woman in energy industry, from Power Magazine, … [+] https://www.powermag.com/women-are-essential-to-a-thriving-power-generation-sector/ Power magazine The hundreds of billions of dollars recent...
Why Are Oil Prices Dropping? OPEC Bows To Global Pressure To Increase Oil Supply
Getty Images Update 08/31/2022 In the original article below we covered OPEC’s increase in production, and explained how this was likely to help prices fall over the coming months. Well, that’s exactl...
The New “Biden Buyback Tax” Will Send This Dividend Stock Soaring
Metal smelting furnace in Chinese steel mills getty There’s a group of dividend stocks out there that are set to skyrocket as the new “Biden buyback tax” rolls in. These “dividend moonshots” are hidin...
Biden forgives half a trillion of student debt – a macroeconomic deep dive
Last week, US President Joe Biden made the watershed announcement that up to $10,000 of student debt would be forgiven for qualifying borrowers. This decision has massive implications across the board...
First Solar’s Investment Thanks To Inflation Reduction Act. Can China Derail It?
First Solar, America’s premier solar manufacturer, said it will invest over a billion dollars thanks … [+] to the Inflation Reductio Act. (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images for NASCAR) ...
Physicians Would Need Almost 27 Hours A Day To Provide Optimal Patient Care, Per New Study
In a new study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, researchers found that in order to provide guideline-recommended care, a primary care physician would require nearly 26.7 hours pe...
The Weekend Shift: Bitcoin, Biden, BitBoy
Welcome to the 82nd Weekend Shift! What’s the deal? Over the weekend, we’ll update this post with some of the most interesting articles, podcasts, charts, and opinion pieces we’re too busy to write ab...
More Bans Take Effect—And Biden Administration Has Mixed Results In Court Challenging Them
Topline State abortion bans continued to go into effect across the country this week—though one was blocked in court—and the Biden Administration had only partial success in its attempts to challenge ...
The Healthcare Industry Is Crumbling Due To Staffing Shortages
The “great resignation” alongside the Covid-19 pandemic has reshaped the way people think about work. Indeed, for many industries over the last year, finding sustainable and reliable employees has bee...
Omicron-Specific Boosters Could Be Available By Labor Day—Here’s Who Should Get One
Topline New Covid-19 booster shots targeting the highly contagious omicron variant could be available soon after Labor Day, according to multiple reports, and all Americans 12 years and older will be ...
President Joe Biden to Pardon Student Loans Up to $20,000
Senator Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska, said the plan “forces blue-collar workers to subsidize white-collar graduate students”. United States President Joe Biden made an important announcement on W...
From Russia’s Borders To The Middle East And Central Asia, Strategic Balances Are Shifting
The US has just bombed Iranian IRGC bases in Syria. Strategic power blocs are shifting tectonically and no one seems to have noticed. To do so you have to connect the dots of seemingly unrelated incid...
How President Biden linked a $15 minimum wage to student loan reform
Fast-food workers and supporters fight to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. James Leynse | Corbis Historical | Getty Images The Biden administration seems to have pegged a student loan policy ann...
Biden canceled billions in student debt, but what he plans to do next could have an even bigger impact
Biden canceled billions in student debt, but what he plans to do next could have an even bigger impact With billions of dollars of student debt cleared from the books, millions woke up today to a diff...
Idaho Abortion Ban Restricted In Court As Judge Sides With Biden Administration
Topline Idaho’s abortion “trigger ban” will still allow physicians to provide abortions in response to all medical emergencies when it takes effect on Thursday, as a federal judge sided with the Biden...