by Megan Hickey | Jun 6, 2013 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – The fledgling “wireless healthcare” industry is calling on Congress to promote technology that allows patients to collect and monitor their own health data on smartphones and other devices. Wireless technology can mean anything from ingestible sensors to...
by Lauren Cook | Jun 4, 2013 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON, May 24 — A provision in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law aimed at reducing money to militia groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by imposing rules on buying minerals from the region has backfired, exacerbating and depriving at least 1...
by Mary Lee & Anderson Xia | May 23, 2013 | Business & Tech, National Security
An exhibit “honoring” Bernie Madoff and his infamous Ponzi scheme is now open to the public at the Crime Museum in Washington, D.C.
by Megan Hickey | May 22, 2013 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON – Quantitative easing is here to stay, according to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who testified before the Joint Economic Committee Wednesday. The monetary policy that has flooded the economy with $85 billion dollars worth of treasury bonds over...
by John Burfisher | May 22, 2013 | Business & Tech, Topics
Congress blasted Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in a hearing before the Joint Economic Committee Wednesday. “I feel like the economy is in the outpatient room and I feel like the Fed continues to give it medicine, but my worry is that the Fed does not...
by Megan Hickey | May 21, 2013 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — The failure to harmonize the cross-border application of derivative rules “will be damaging,” according to IntercontinentalExchange Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Sprecher, who testified Tuesday on Capitol Hill at a hearing on the future of the Commodity...
