Politics/Geopolitics

Bloomberg Republican leaders are eager to avoid a government shutdown but the demise of their Obamacare repeal could leave some conservatives spoiling for a fight that raises the odds of a standoff. The House Freedom […]

Bloomberg In the end, the pipeline won. Dakota Access, which became a rallying point for tens of thousands of anti-fossil fuel and Native American-rights protesters, is preparing for service, a court filing on Monday shows. […]

Reuters President Donald Trump will ask the U.S. Congress for dramatic cuts to many federal programs as he seeks to bulk up defense spending, start building a wall on the border with Mexico and spend […]

Reuters BlackRock Inc(BLK.N), which wields outsized clout as the world’s largest asset manager, planned on Monday to put new pressure on companies to explain themselves on issues including how climate change could affect their business […]

Bloomberg By Michael Schuman In the waning days of Barack Obama’s administration, one of the president’s advisory councils issued a report warning of China’s plans to snatch control of the critical semiconductor industry. Its recommendation: […]

By Leonid Bershidsky Bloomberg The man who would depose Angela Merkel as German chancellor also has a global plan: To reverse the onslaught of nationalism and populism. Martin Schulz, the Social Democrat (SPD) candidate for […]

The Entry Points This is going to be a volatile European election year, especially France coming up in May, with Marine Le Pen doing very well in the polls. This Wednesday is Dutch elections with […]

Bloomberg A year ago, the Federal Reserve was forced to back away from its earlier projection for four interest-rate increases in 2016. This year, everyone’s coming around to the Fed’s view. A Bloomberg survey of […]

Bloomberg If Donald Trump wants to bring America’s coal industry back, he sure picked a good year to become president. Natural gas prices are higher than a year ago, making coal more competitive in the […]