by Isabella Zhong | Jul 23, 2013 | Business & Tech, Topics
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified in front of the Senate Banking Committee Thursday. In what could be his final monetary policy report, Bernanke discussed the health of the nation’s economy, the Fed’s quantitative easing program and reforms...
by Sonali Basak | Jul 23, 2013 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Allowing financial holding companies to have increasing control over physical commodities such as aluminum and oil could give them too much power over producers and manufacturers, several experts told a Senate subcommittee Tuesday....
by Holly LaFon, Michaela Meaney & Zachary Vasile | Jul 23, 2013 | Business & Tech, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – Remember the Susan B. Anthony $1 coins of the 1970s? And the 1990s version – the Sacagawea coin? Consumer advocates and five senators think it’s time to give the $1 coin another chance. But first — wipe out the dollar bill. Eliminating the dollar...
by Collin Carroll | Jul 23, 2013 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — June existing-home sales in Frederick County rose at year-over-year and month-over-month rates of roughly 24 percent, crushing the national changes in both categories. Frederick County’s 343 closed sales in June were a 23-percent rise from the month...
by Isabella Zhong | Jul 22, 2013 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON – Abenomics. That’s the popular name of the ambitious suite of measures Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe introduced in December to inject new life into the chronically anemic Japanese economy. The result has been an aggressive depreciation on the value of...
by Rhyan Kronzer | Jul 22, 2013 | Business & Tech, Environment, Science + Technology
Photo by J.E. Theriot WASHINGTON — The future of a $14 million-a-year catfish inspection program that stands to block imports of cheaper, foreign-raised catfish hangs in the balance as House and Senate negotiators get ready to iron out details of the 2013 farm bill....
