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Kamala Harris has led almost all opinion polls since Joe Biden sidestepped and endorsed her for the US Presidential Election 2024. If media reports are to be believed, it was largely due to the enthusiasm she has created among the US voters. But economic indicators are now being discussed, Donald Trump has targeted the vice president for rising unemployment and she has declared to ban food price hikes if elected. So, will the economic factors help the presumptive Democratic candidate? Or will the Republican candidate be able to upset her winning equation by taking the rants of «America First» and «Make America Great Again» (MAGA) to a new height?

Hedge funds, pensions and banks continued to lavish capital into exchange-traded funds that invest directly in Bitcoin, as more traditional investors embrace the asset class that US regulators begrudgingly helped push into the mainstream at the beginning of the year. Among the most well-known buyers that have emerged are hedge funds like Millennium Management, which held shares in at least five Bitcoin ETFs, according to a Bloomberg analysis of second-quarter filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm, which has $68 billion in assets under management, trimmed its stakes in the ETFs significantly from the prior quarter but remained as the top holder for most of the funds, including BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust.

A tribal leader and conservationists urged state officials to reject plans to relocate part of an aging northern Wisconsin pipeline, warning that the threat of a catastrophic spill would still exist along the new route

technology companies. Their leadership, spanning from Silicon Valley to other global tech hubs, is significantly influencing the digital landscape. Here are some of the remarkable Indian-origin leaders who have made notable contributions to the industry and are leaving a substantial impact on the tech world. Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet

Kamala Harris is gaining ground in the Rust Belt. The states that were once the US manufacturing centers, employing a large part of the population in manufacturing jobs, voted heavily in favor of Donald Trump in 2016. But, Axios has reported that Kamala Harris has closed the gap in the region comprising Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Harris's increased popularity is in contrast to FiveThirtyEight's national average when Joe Biden trailed Donald Trump by 2.4 percentage points in Michigan, 2.3 percentage points in Wisconsin, and 4.4 percentage points in Pennsylvania.

Nicholas Stephanopoulos is Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das, he explains past — and present — legal aspects of the American electoral system: Q. What is the core of your research? A. I teach American constitutional law and election law primarily — within the latter, which is my area of specialisation, I look at topics including voting rights, redistricting, money in politics, minority representation and the like. The US electoral system is quite an enigma. Voters exercise their ballot but an electoral college decides — why? The US does have an odd and complicated system for electing its President — it’s a lot more complex than just having a single nation-wide poll. We basically have 50 separate state-wide elections and each state determines how its Presidential election will be conducted — typically, each state election decides all the President-elect’s electors from it. To win the Presidency, a candidate must win a majority of the total number of these electors. So, the candidates don’t really compete on a nation-wide basis — they compete to win individual states. Most of the candidates’ attention is thus focused on a handful of highly competitive states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona. The winner of the voters of those states will have a majority of the total number of electors — and be elected President.

The U.S. Navy is struggling to build affordable warships needed to face expanding threats around the world

Kamala Harris told supporters in Nevada on Saturday she supported eliminating taxes on tips, taking a similar position to her rival Donald Trump in an effort to win over service workers, an important constituency in the state. Harris and her Democratic running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, wrapped up a multi-day tour of battleground states on Saturday with their stop in Nevada, a western state that could play a pivotal role in the Nov. 5 presidential election. «It is my promise to everyone here when I am president we will continue to fight for working families, including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers,» Harris said.

The polls of likely voters by The New York Times and Siena College showed Democratic presidential candidate Harris leading her Republican rival Trump by an identical 50 percent to 46 percent margin in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Under the US electoral college voting system, those three populous Midwestern states are considered key to victory for either party.

swing states, the Republican candidate is losing ground in battleground states. The Cook Political Report has predicted that the former president would not win in Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada, reports the 'Independent'. It has moved these states from leaning Republican to “toss-ups.” Editor-in-chief Amy Walter wrote in the report on Thursday that Kamala Harris leads Trump by less than one point. He pointed out that Battleground state polls show similar results, the vice president is reducing the Republican's lead by two to five points.

presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic opponent Kamala Harris will debate on Sept. 10 on ABC, setting up the first face-to-face matchup between the rivals in what polls show is an extremely close race. In a rambling news conference at his Palm Beach, Florida, residence, Trump said he wanted additional debates on Sept. 4 and Sept. 25 that would air on Fox and NBC. Harris said in a post on X that she was looking forward to the Sept. 10 debate after Trump «finally committed.» She told reporters after a campaign stop in Detroit that she was open to discussing more debates.

Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz made their joint presidential campaign debut at a rally Tuesday evening in Philadelphia, kicking off their battleground state tour with an introduction from Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. With the Minnesota Governor as her pick for vice president, Harris pushed to shore up «Blue Wall» states-Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania-that Democrats need to win to keep the White House. Walz's advocacy for in vitro fertilization and child tax credits-an idea that he has used in hist state-were issues that resonated with the Democratic presidential nominee. A turbulent campaign is now set to play out as a 90-day sprint across two fronts: the Rust Belt and the Sun Belt.

Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday, according to three people familiar with the decision.In choosing Walz, she is turning to a Midwestern governor, military veteran and union supporter who helped enact an ambitious Democratic agenda for his state, including sweeping protections for abortion rights and generous aid to families.Harris hopes to shore up her campaign’s standing across the upper Midwest, a critical region in presidential politics that often serves as a buffer for Democrats seeking the White House.

Donald Trump upset with the huge crowd attending election rallies of his opponent presumptive Democrat candidate Kamala Harris? Is it evident by the former president's barb on the vice president when he taunted her by declaring that he needs no entertainers? He added that he would fill the stadium because he was making America great again. Trump's comment came four days after more than 10,000 people gathered at Georgia State University Convocation Center to listen to the first black vice president, reports the 'Seattle Times'. Rappers Quavo and Megan Thee Stallion also attended the election rally and Trump referred to it. Trump also accused the Georgia State University officials in charge of the arena of preventing him from bringing more people to the arena.

Which financial assets a central bank should buy and sell is hardly a novel question. Historically, the US Federal Reserve has focused on shorter-term Treasury securities, but quantitative easing had the Fed buying mortgage securities and quality commercial paper in vast quantities. Central banks often hold gold and foreign currencies.

The Environmental Protection Agency is issuing an emergency fuel waiver to help alleviate shortages in four states whose gasoline supplies have been impacted by the shutdown of an ExxonMobil refinery in Illinois

US election 2024 documentary «Trump v Harris: The Battle for America» is all set to be released in August. One-hour long documentary will premier on August 7 on Channel 4. The documentary will delve into critical aspects of campaigns led by Republican nominee Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris for the US Presidential election 2024.

Commonwealth Financial Network, the leading independent broker dealer and RIA firm, has announced another addition to its advisory network in the Northeast.

The Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) has launched a publicly accessible investment scam tracker in a bid to combat financial and crypto scams and fraud.

Wisconsin Republicans are asking voters to take away the governor’s power to unilaterally spend federal money, a reaction to the billions of dollars that flowed into the state during the COVID-19 pandemic

Since President Joe Biden left the White House race, Vice President Kamala Harris has begun to craft her own narrative around the economy