by Kulwant Saluja | Jul 13, 2015 | Business & Tech, Health
The Open Payments database details payments from companies to 683,000 doctors. WASHINGTON -Drug and medical device companies paid nearly $10 billion to doctors and teaching hospitals since August 2013 to conduct research, travel and speak at conferences, among other...
by Jin Wu | Jul 13, 2015 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – It’s no secret that farming is a business with more than its share of ups and downs. Sometimes it’s too much of a good thing. While ranchers are benefiting from the low feed costs and high meat prices, Iowa’s grain farmers are struggling with an...
by Phoebe Tollefson | Jul 13, 2015 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — Texas lawmakers Gene Green and Joe Barton went head-to-head Thursday on a bill that would lift a 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports. It was imposed to alleviate energy scarcity during the OPEC oil embargo. “We have repealed every bit of that...
by Lucy Ren | Jul 9, 2015 | Business & Tech
Washington–Five years after the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Production Act became law, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created under it is once again under fire. At a House hearing Thursday, academic experts and Republican lawmakers...
by Siyuan Du | Jul 9, 2015 | Business & Tech
Washington – The International Monetary Fund Thursday trimmed the forecast for global economic growth this year to 3.3 percent, mainly due to unexpected output contraction in North America. In the update to its World Economic Outlook, the IMF expected the global...
by Xiaolan Tang | Jul 8, 2015 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said Wednesday the meltdown of the Chinese stock market and the slowdown of the huge country’s economy is not an immediate threat to the continued growth of the U.S. economy. “If you look at China, you have to separate...
