The American Economy: Leading the World
In 1960, the United States was the most prosperous nation in the world, and it was still growing fast. The nation's prosperity had come on quickly; in th...
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Portrait of America.
The first decade of the twentieth-century saw profound change in the makeup of America. According to the twelfth decennial census in 1900, the population was more than seventy-si...
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What factors helped to promote America's huge industrial growth during the period from 1860-1900"
After the Reconstruction Era, the United States was in desperate need of a change. The other world ...
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The economic cost of waging war for the United States have been extremely large, and not just damaging to the government, but the whole country. The stock market is greatly damaged by waging war. Worl...
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As the old adage goes, history must not repeat itself, is very pertinent to today's economy. Unfortunately, people are prone to pushing this advice to the side and continue going on with their busy w...
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The U.S. economy is always changing, in both positive and negative ways. However, there are methods of controlling it in order to make for a more steady and positive growth. This paper is focused on ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Duelling videos -- one
starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the other featuring a "typical"
U.S. family shivering in an underheated house -- are focusing
debate on a Senate bill ...
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Tokyo (dpa) - Benchmark stock indices in Tokyo, Hong Kong and
Singapore saw more than 2-per-cent gains Thursday, a day after
plunges were seen in markets across Asia on fear...
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Finally: Rudy Giuliani was caught red-handed.
After months of watching him wriggle out of tight spots on issues like abortion and gun control, opponents of the front-running former mayor say that h...
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The Bush administration's move to blacklist Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a "terrorist" organization is a new salvo in a broader effort to choke off funding to Iranian elements accused of dev...
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It's October and global warming campaigner Al Gore has won the Nobel Peace Prize. In November the U.N.'s climate scientists issue a capstone report on where the planet is headed. And in December en...
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Washington (dpa) - Environmentalists have had a hard time of it
over the years, and no more so than in the United States. Labelled
tree huggers and scare mongers, their infl...
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Copper isn't the only metal that can turn green over time. Several metal industry trade groups are pushing for new laws and wider cooperation to develop technology and industry practices to cut gre...
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