"For far too long the United States has minted pennies, which literally cost us more than 2 cents," Trump wrote in a post to ...

President Trump has tasked newly minted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to up the pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

Billionaire Elon Musk has sparked widespread anger with his efforts to illegally shut down entire government agencies without any congressional authorization, but Slate columnist David Zipper believes ...

The McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised import duties to nearly 50% on average, up from around 38% previously. As the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, McKinley argued that high tariffs were ...

MOSCOW, February 12. /TASS/. Annual inflation in Russia sped up to 9.99% from February 4 to 10 from 9.92% in the previous week, the Economic Development Ministry reported.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that President Donald Trump's calls for lower interest rates won't lead ...

By Samuel Lartey(Prof)[email protected], the world’s second-largest cocoa producer, is grappling with a deepening crisis in its cocoa industry. In 2024, cocoa export earnings plummeted to $1.

Imposing punitive tariffs on countries with high trade surpluses with the United States has been at the heart of US President ...