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Apple CEO Tim Cook To Host Fundraiser For Paul Ryan
Monday, June 20, 2016 - 5:54pm | 267Read More...Even though Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) doesn't like Donald Trum and recently decided to pull support for the GOP convention, the tech behemoth’s top management team seems to still like Republicans. According to POLITICO, in an attempt to make amends and further its relationships with...
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Speaker Ryan: End Of Oil Export Ban Is Like 'Having 100 Keystone Pipelines'
Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - 2:20pm | 203Read More...The construction of TransCanada Corporation (NYSE: TRP)'s Keystone XL Pipeline was controversial and politically polarizing with Republicans mostly in favor of the pipeline and Democrats mostly against the construction. Meanwhile, U.S. Congress recently voted to permanently lift its 40-year-old ban...
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Congressman Paul Ryan Believes In Untapped Potential Of The Poor
Saturday, May 17, 2014 - 1:25pm | 595Read More...Congressman Paul Ryan, joined by Robert Woodson, Sr., Founder of Center for Neighorhood Enterprise, spoke Friday morning at SALT 2014, not to promote policies that aimed to benefit the personal agendas of the affluent audience, but to inspire support for the upward mobility of the impoverished...
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Rep. Paul Ryan Reacts To President Obama's State Of The Union Address
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 12:42pm | 486Read More...Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, was full of slick marketing lingo when he responded to President Obama's State of the Union address on the Republican party's behalf on CNBC's Squawk Box Wednesday morning. Ryan started the dish with a few dashes of insulting comments, saying...
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Should Investors Breathe A Sigh Of Relief Now That The United States Has A Budget?
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 12:56pm | 453Read More...A budget has not been passed by the United States Senate since April 2009. Now there is one for the next two years, thanks to the good work of Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), Chair of the House Budget Committee, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, along with...
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Paul Ryan Believes We've Done Little In Terms Of Spending Cuts
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - 11:07am | 618Read More...House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Wednesday morning where he sat in as a guest for over an hour. While on, he talked about corporate tax reform, the federal budget deficit, and the GOP budget plan among other things. "If you just passed our budget...
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Trading Ideas For Either Election Outcome
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - 3:15pm | 1336Read More...Americans are heading to the polls to determine whether the incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, will be serving another four years in the Oval Office, or if Republican challenger Mitt Romney will take the reins of the country. Investors across the globe will be watching the...
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Stocks Chris Christie Would Pick
Friday, August 31, 2012 - 10:23am | 737Read More...Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles that will be appearing on Benzinga.com over the next few months. Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie is famous for many things, among them being the first Republican in 12 years to win a statewide election for governorship in 2009 (...
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Stocks Paul Ryan Would Pick
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - 1:07pm | 772Read More...Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles that will be appearing on Benzinga.com over the next few months. Based on Paul Ryan's sentiments and personal history, the following companies would make a nice, diverse portfolio for vice presidential nominee. Shares of the following...
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Barron's Recap (8/18/12): Pipeline to 6 Percent Payouts
Monday, August 20, 2012 - 11:23am | 859Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: investing in master limited partnerships, the Paul Ryan effect, and the prospects for Waste Management, Swatch, Prosafe and Investors Bancorp. Cover Story "High Energy Income" by Dimitra DeFotis. One single investment -- the master limited partnership (MLP) --...
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$15 Trillion and Counting
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 7:45pm | 528Read More...The Treasury Department makes it official, the United States of America has eclipsed $15 trillion in debt. It's been over 930 days since the Senate has passed a budget, yet that hasn't kept the government from spending at record levels and shifting the financial burden to the next generation....
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When Will Senate Democrats Start Doing Their Job?
Friday, October 7, 2011 - 2:19pm | 595Read More...National unemployment is at 9.1%, the United States is $14.7 trillion in debt, and the Senate Democrats continue to be a roadblock in the recovery and solvency of America. It has been 891 days since the Senate passed a budget, 891 days since the Democratic majority put people above politics and did...
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Debt Deal Almost Done, Now What?
Monday, August 1, 2011 - 1:11pm | 824Read More...Last night, news emerged out of Washington that a deal had been reached regarding the U.S. deficit and ability to raise the debt ceiling, and the futures surged. This morning, as traders awoke, futures came off their best levels of the session, and traders faded the open, selling the rip. Once...
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Could Congress Actually Touch The Forbidden Donut?
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 10:29am | 281Read More...The title is a play on the Medicare donut hole in which is a gap in coverage when people must pay more for drugs, but it looks as if Congress could actually reform Medicare, which would be a tremendous move from their previous stance of not touching the social safety net at all. According to this...
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Republican Rep. Ryan Calls For Medicare Overhaul
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 10:23am | 116Read More...House of Representatives Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan will announce his plan Tuesday, which aims to cut expenses by fundamentally changing the role the government plays in paying for health care for the elderly. The new plan, which analysts consider unlikely to pass Congress, would phase...
