US Economy

Budget Battles

  • U.S. takes first step toward fracking disclosure rules

    This Is Where the Real Fracking Money Is

    By James Stafford, Oilprice.com

    When it takes up to four million pounds of sand to frack a single well, it’s no wonder that demand is outpacing supply and frack sand producers are becoming the biggest behind-the-scenes...

  • Google Already Knows What Holiday Gifts You’re Getting

    By Cadie Thompson, CNBC

    Wonder what you are getting for Christmas? Google might have an idea. The tech giant has broken down some of the top searched gifts and it looks like Apple's iPads and Microsoft's Xbox will be big...

  • The Most Popular U.S. Colleges for Foreign Students

    By Yuval Rosenberg

    U.S. universities are educating more international students than ever — more than 886,000 of them as of the 2013-14 academic year, according to the Open Doors 2014 report released last week by the...

  • The Great Checkout Counter Charity Grab

    By Chris Taylor, Reuters

    First, Samantha Kemp-Jackson started noticing something unusual at the local grocery store. Then it started happening to the Toronto mom of four at the department store. Then the liquor store. Then,...

  • There Are Now 69,560 Americans Worth $30M or More

    By Robert Frank, CNBC

    In the increasingly top-heavy world of wealth, $30 million is the new $1 million. And the number of people with a net worth of $30 million or higher is growing rapidly in the U.S., especially in...