But a court challenge's success is not guaranteed. The law's opponents, which include advocacy organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union, maintain that the government hasn't come close to justifying banning TikTok, while others say national-security claims could...
Russia’s longer-term goal with the coordinated — and probably months-long — offensive could be to prepare a platform for pressing deeper intro the Ukraine-held western part of the Donetsk region and also penetrating into the Kharkiv region north of it, t...
Germany, the continent's largest economy, is heavily dependent on Russian energy. Its central bank said a total cutoff could mean 5 percentage points of lost economic output and higher inflation. Inflation is already at record highs, making everything from groceries to raw materials more expensive...
Thethree-day New Year's Day holidays signaled a good start for China's consumer spending recovery this year.Extending the strong momentum, the country's consumption sector - be it in cities or villages, online and offline, and in green spending or the silver economy - will continue to rebou...
Today I’d like to give you some idea about how life at an American university or college might be different from the way it is in your country. To be sure, the student body on a U. S. campus is a pretty diverse group of people. First of all, you will find students of all ...
The American government spent colossal amounts of money on the effort and assumed a wartime economy. American businesses, farmers, and factory workers all contributed. Toward the end of the year, it was mandatory for all men between the ages of 18 and 64 to register for the draft, though ...
An economy'sbalance of tradeis a comparison of the amount of money that is spent on imports of goods and services and the amount of money it earns on goods and services it exports. It is measured primarily by recording all of the products that pass through the customs office of a country...
The most dramatic example in recent history is that of China, where government policy changes in the late 20th century led to the nation's transition from an economy based on subsistence farming to aglobal manufacturing powerhouse. The Industrial Revolution In the western world, Industrialization is...
In a capitalist economy, private individuals or the companies they create own the means of production and the right to profit from them. Communism and socialism aim to right the wrongs of capitalism’s free-market system. These include worker exploitation, inequities between classes, and outright ...
A spillover effect is when an event in a country has a ripple effect on the economy of another, usually more dependent country. Spillover effects can be caused by stock market downturns such as the Great Recession in 2008. They can also be caused by macro events like the Fukushima disaster...