Recall back in May, when the Obama administration and Congress announced they were introducing new credit card reform? (Canada followed suit with similar proposals, albeit more moderate ones.) The goal was to reinstate an economy in which people only borrow what they can afford. The problem: such regulations will curtain ...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's trip to the NAFTA summit in Guadalajara earlier this week netted two curious outcomes. One is how Harper managed the mess over Mexican visas, aka the Blame Canada show. The other is how all three leaders dodged the ongoing debacle of Buy American.

Bill Clinton returned to the United States on August 5 an international hero. Not only had the former President's intervention in Pyongyang, North Korea, saved two hapless American journalists from a miserable fate — 12 years' hard labour in a North Korean prison camp — it had also, on the ...

They just want to be a part of it. Tim Horton's has arrived in New York City. With considerable fanfare, the company  announced opening day would be July 13th, at a wide range of locations across the city, including Midtown (Seventh Avenue near 50th Street) and in Penn Station.

If you believe the political advisors currently wringing their hands over this issue, the U.S. stimulus is stymied. In one sector, municipal wastewater, spending has slowed to a crawl; a total of 17 jobs have been created thus far.

It's been busy times hereabouts, so this will be short –  but if you'd like to get the inside scoop on what it was like to sit in the courtroom and watch the biggest fraudster in U.S. history be sentenced, check out this excellent colour piece from The Big Money's ...

While President Barack Obama is weighing in against new trade protectionism in one bill, the trade-skeptic bloc in Congress has decided they want more protectionism in another.

On Sunday, President Obama told Waxman-Markey-bill drafters that he likes the vision of a clean green economic future in their sights, but wants them to lose the tariff approach they're currently favouring to get there.

In a development that reportedly took even President Obama's aides by surprise, the United States' new cap and trade bill has narrowly passed the House of Representatives in Congress. The bill, known as Waxman-Markey, passed by 219 to 212, with 44 Democrats, mostly from coal-producing and industrial manufacturing states in ...

The House is set to vote today on H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, colloquially known as Waxman-Markey.