"They're doing that, I would say, at the great expense of the average American, the U.S. economy and, to some degree, the global economy," said Jason Ware, chief analyst at Albion Financial Group in Salt Lake City. After media reports that House …

The strange contraption slowly being assembled in a modest industrial shed in Breda, a small city in the Netherlands, bears little resemblance to Nautilus, the fictional submarine of Jules Verne's “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” It consists of …

A big rally in the stock price of Chinese eyecare chain Aier Eye Hospital Group has lifted the company's chairman Chen Bang into the ranks of the world's billionaires. Aier's Shenzhen-traded shares closed up 2.32 yuan, or 8%, to a record 31.07 yuan …

The alarm blaring in the New York headquarters of Amalgamated Bank, where the Democratic National Committee and Occupy Wall Street are clients, didn't bother the two pinstriped executives sitting still with legs crossed. “You smell the smoke,” Chief …

Africa is home to far more billionaires than previously thought, as a decade-long period of intense economic growth fills the pockets of local businessman, according to the most comprehensive survey of wealth in the continent. The Ventures magazine …

President George W. Bush cut taxes in the service of his party's ideology, not in response to a groundswell of popular demand — and the bulk of the cuts went to a small, affluent minority. Similarly, Mr. Bush chose to invade Iraq because that was …

“We imagine Warwick district as quite an affluent area yet in my short time here I still see possession orders coming through and people not managing on the money they're living on. “The demand is high and we want to deliver an excellent service for …

Mr Johnson said 40% of passengers travelled for nothing – and that there would be mayhem if any attempt was made to strip the "affluent bourgeoisie" of old-age bus passes. "The result is that the entire burden of fare-paying is carried by the 60% – and …

A. Affluent societies are more technologically based. I think the appeal of alternative medicine in such societies is that it's more “natural.” But alternative medicine is a multibillion dollar industry. These products aren't being made by hippies on …