President-elect Donald Trump made a pointed remark about the Walt Disney Company during a recent event at Mar-a-Lago, where former Marvel Entertainment boss and billionaire Ike Perlmutter was in attendance. "The guy went from stone-cold broke to owning Disney," Trump told the crowd, referring to Perlmutter. "Then he got out of Disney because they went woke. He didn’t want woke Donald Duck."
Mass deportations proposed by President-elect Donald Trump could deliver a significant blow to Mexico’s economy, warns Ismael Plascencia López, a specialist with the Northwest Mexico Federation of Economists.
A lucky Mega Millions player in California will be ringing in the New Year as a billionaire after winning an estimated $1.22 billion jackpot in Friday night's drawing.
American credit card defaults have surged to the highest levels since the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, as consumers continue to grapple with years of high inflation. In the first three quarters of 2024, credit card lenders wrote off $46 billion in delinquent loan balances, marking a 50 percent increase from the same period last year. These write-offs, considered a highly monitored measure of loan distress, are the highest since 2010, according to industry data gathered by BankRegData.
The Panama Canal, often heralded as one of the Wonders of the Modern World, is far more than a feat of engineering—it is a cornerstone of U.S. national security and economic prosperity.