Bill Clinton

Much has been made of the fact that President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision announced via Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) Wednesday to ban transgender people from the U.S. military fell on the 69th anniversary of the day that President Harry Truman desegregated those very same armed forces. What...

President Donald Trump might have drawn headlines away from his domestic troubles with his first state trip abroad, but ongoing investigations into his team’s Russian ties and financial dealings aren’t going away. Which means the steady murmurs of impeachment will likely remain when he...

It’s called “saber rattling,” a term used when a leader has problems at home and picks a fight abroad. Historians have examined the idea exhaustively, but there’s nothing like seeing it in real time. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Il Jung, both of whom...

"Downtown" Josh Brown's firm Ritholtz Wealth Management, tweeted out an interesting tidbit. On this day in 1997, the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed the 7,000 mark for the first time ever. Today in market history, 1997: The Dow Jones Industrial Average crosses 7,000 for the first time ever....

President-elect Donald Trump will officially drop the "elect" adjective on Friday and be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. Meanwhile, the majority of Americans have no plans of tuning in to the inauguration ceremony, according to Statista. Statista, citing Pew...

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to bring a substantial amount of change to the presidency, but one thing that will be staying the same is the presidential state car. Trump's 'Cadillac One' is set to debut on Inauguration Day, January 20. Nicknamed “The Beast” during...

Former President Bill Clinton said on Tuesday that activist investors are partially to blame when companies flee the United States for Mexico. Speaking to CNBC during the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting in New York City, Clinton said activist investors "demand a profit in a year and a...

The possibility of Hilary Clinton becoming elected is posing difficult questions about what the public should call Bill Clinton. U.S. presidents are generally referred to as "Mr. President" for life, but no former Commander in Chief has been in a situation like the one B. Clinton may be...

Wilbur Ross is a billionaire investor best known for restructuring failed companies within steel, coal, telecommunication and other sectors. In an op-ed published on CNBC Friday, Ross and Peter Navarro, a professor of economics and public policy at the Paul Merage School of Business, threw their...

Keith Boykin, a former White House aide to Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump's campaign surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes sat down to talk politics on CNBC. Nell Hughes began the conversation by pointing out Donald Trump's dramatic defeat, in which he successfully navigated a playing field of more than a...

The three largest soda companies in the world -– The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO), PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc (NYSE: DPS) -– have pledged to reduce calories in their sugary drinks by one-fifth over the next 10 years. Big Deal The pledge, made...

This weekend in Barron's online: the looming economic calamity if entitlement spending is not reined in, as well as the prospects for AMC Networks, Prem Watsa and more. Cover Story "What, Me Worry?" by Gene Epstein. Unless Washington stops dithering, says this week's cover story in Barron's, the...

If people on both sides of the political aisle hate Lawrence Summers, then perhaps he's the right man for the job. Summers dropped out of the race to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve because he thought getting confirmed would be a difficult battle as a number of Democrats in...

This weekend in Barron's online: a Penta asset-allocation survey, the Dow ready to hit a record high, and the prospects for Barnes & Noble, Danone, Forestar Group and Asian markets. Cover Story "More Stocks, Fewer Bonds" by Karen Hube. After years of investing defensively, the largest...