With the global recovery continuing to be fragile, the finance ministers of 20 of the world’s largest economies have agreed to jump start growth to accelerate the process that many consider to be anemic. The G20 leaders have agreed to boost the global economy by injecting $2 trillion over a five-year period.The timing may or […]
President Barack Obama has made raising the federal minimum wage a key component of his domestic agenda moving forward as he contemplates the final three years of his presidency and the nation’s still-recovering economy. Ideally, the president would like to see the federal minimum hourly wage increased from the current $7.25 to $10.10 an hour, […]
Most Americans act as though the global economy does not apply to them and many tend to ignore what happens in the rest of the world. Living in the US gives many the sense that they enjoy a financial bubble protecting them from the economics of the rest of the globe. Feeling that what goes […]