Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee has lashed out at President Barack Obama, accusing the president of campaigning on taxpayer money in swing states. Priebus was referring to the recent stops the president made at university campuses in Colorado, Iowa and North Carolina. Priebus says Obama in the last few weeks has been calling his travels “official events” when they... 

Health insurers in the U.S. are expected to have over $1 billion in rebates for employers and consumers this year. The rebates are thanks to a provision of the health care overhaul legislation that forces the insurers to provide the rebates if enough of the premium dollars they earn in health care are not spent. The Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan group calculated rebates totaling $1.3 billion... 

An extensive investigation is taking place, says Wal-Mart into compliance with federal law that prohibits companies based in the U.S. to bribe officials of foreign countries. Wal-Mart released the statement after an article in the New York Times was published Saturday online that alleged that executives of the huge retailer concealed a bribery scheme, involving its division in Mexico, in its Bentonville,... 

The rate of unemployment dropped in 49 of the 50 states during March, from one year earlier. The only exception was in New York. This improvement to the jobs market may give a boost to the reelection campaign of President Barack Obama. On a national average, unemployment rates that fell in the winter nudged up slightly in the spring. As the recovery from the recent recession continues to plod along,... 

The old label Made in the USA is making a comeback. A new survey by the Boston Consulting Group says 37% of executives representing manufacturing companies with sales of over $1 billion plan to repatriate production or are considering it. That rate increased to 48% with executives who represented companies that had over $10 billion in sales. This is the first time this type of survey has been performed... 

Microsoft surprised many with its strong first quarter for 2012. Investors were pleased and looked forward to even better things from the software giant’s much anticipated overhaul this fall of the Windows operating system. Microsoft’s numbers were released on Thursday and defied the conventional thinking that said Microsoft could lose sales of Windows licenses, as many people are snapping up tablet... 

As the fate of the healthcare reform is in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, a study was released that says 25% of working age Americans did not have health care coverage at some point during 2011. Unemployment and other job related changes were often the results of so many going without health insurance. A Commonwealth Fund study polled over 2,100 people between the ages of 19 and 64. It found... 

More people in the U.S. filed for jobless benefits than were expected and pre-owned home sales dropped unexpectedly, indicating there may be a moderation in the economic expansion of past three years. Labor Department data today showed that jobless claims dropped by 2,000 for the week that ended April 14, to 386,000. The estimate by economists called for the drop to 370,000. Pre-owned home sales dropped... 

The attorney general for New York filed a tax fraud lawsuit Thursday against Sprint Nextel. The AG accused the wireless carrier of underpaying sale tax intentionally in New York for the last seven years. In 2005, Sprint stopped its policy of collecting and paying sales tax for New York on about 25% of all the revenue generated from fixed price cell phone monthly plans, claims Eric Schneiderman, the... 

President Barack Obama is criticized for high gasoline prices and he tried to blame Congress, energy traders and Republicans for it. He said he wants to enact a legislation that would place more protection to crack down on possible manipulation of the oil market. President Obama asked Congress for more funds for regulators and increase penalties for market manipulators. He suggested that speculators...