Author : EW News Desk Team

Just a few weeks ago, we detailed the incredible array of tax breaks & subsidies the US Congress has showered on the oil industry, mostly Big Oil but some smaller...

Stephen M. Sweeney, the president of the State Senate here, glowered with disgust as he described how one New Jersey town paid out nearly $1 million to four retiring...

China, the world’s largest rare- earths producer, cut export quotas for the minerals needed to make hybrid cars and televisions by 72 percent for the second half, raising the...

In one of the country’s biggest infrastructure projects in its history, Australia’s five largest cities are spending $13.2 billion on desalination plants capable of sucking millions of gallons of...

Protests against a recent increase in fuel prices shut down markets, schools, airports and businesses across India earlier this month, and thousands of people were arrested as violence flared...

It's a tiresome cliche that small business is the backbone of economic growth in the US. But insofar as it's true, what happened in June makes clear why America...

The amount of plutonium buried at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is nearly three times what the federal government previously reported, a new analysis indicates, suggesting that...

The lack of coordination within the United States — and, equally important, the failure to recognize the states as macroeconomic players — is a significant, but often underappreciated, reason...

A number of Afghan construction companies working on contracts for American and NATO military bases in Afghanistan have accused American middlemen of reneging on payments for supplies and services,...

The train that is the nation’s so-called / self-styled / alleged economic recovery has slowed noticeably, unable to generate enough jobs in the last two months to keep pace...