KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia has taken action against 400 companies so far this year for violating labour laws, state news agency Bernama reported, citing Human Resources Minister V. Sivakumar. The ministry’s labour department issued fines totaling 2.17 million ringgit ($463,000) against 272 employers, while the courts fined 128 employers a combined 242,000 ringgit, Bernama ...
HONG KONG – US Treasury official Brent Neiman visited Hong Kong on Thursday, the highest ranking Treasury official to visit the financial hub since 2019, U.S. authorities said, as Washington aims to deepen ties with Beijing despite rising tensions. The US Department of the Treasury said on Thursday that Neiman, the department’s assistant secretary for international finance, will ...
In this edition of StockCharts TV‘s The Final Bar, Dave sits down with Ralph Acampora, CMT, co-founder of the CMT Association, for a memorable conversation on all things technical analysis. They review lessons learned from the October 2022 market low, words of ...
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop look at the domestic costs of 9/11 and its continuing impact on Americans. The two discuss articles they wrote this week about how the events sowed the seeds of the ...
California’s decision to grant reparations to black Americans has galvanized activists across the globe. Activists think that doing so will remedy the black-white wealth gap. Ensuring that blacks are on par with whites, however, is a strange goal, since East ...
After governments create crises, they use those crises to seize new powers. After the crisis subsides, governments give up some, but not all, of their new authority, which we call the ratchet effect. Original Article: “Beyond Crisis: The Ratchet Effect ...
In this edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler present trend analysis across the asset classes, sectors, and individual securities. The continued strong “Go” conditions in the US Dollar index (UUP) and US Treasury rates ($TNX) on both ...
Many of the forecasts I hear regarding bonds seem to be based upon what bonds have done for most of the last 40 years without acknowledging what has happened more recently. The chart below shows that 30-Year T-Bonds were in ...
Hollywood has captivated our collective imagination for over a century. We tend to view it as something other than an industry subject to the same immutable laws of economics like cars, coffee, lumber and everything else. The current strike by ...
Every day, Americans feel the political capture of the economy. Inflation, taxes, and regulatory costs hit our paychecks and savings. The regulatory capture of medical industries; food and energy production; and the various instruments of Big Tech empowers the regime with new ...