Budget Battles
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Biden White House Lays Out Plan for Coming Tax Showdown
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Trump Tax Cut Extension Would Cost $4.6 Trillion: CBO
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House Kills Greene Motion to Oust Speaker Johnson
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Greene Backs Off Johnson Threat, but Issues Four Demands
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Social Security, Medicare Get Boost From Strong Economy
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Biden and Trump Joust Over Jobs Report
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IRS Unveils Plan to Crack Down on the Rich
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Here’s What Financial Advisers Think You Should Do With Your Portfolio Right Now
As the stock market continues to hit record highs, most financial advisers expect it to show more volatility in the second half of the year.
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Does Weak Inflation Mean the Economy Is Worse Than It Looks?
It wasn't supposed to be like this. The economic expansion is in its ninth calendar year. The unemployment rate has plummeted to 4.3 percent, down from more than 8 percent five years ago. Home prices...
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Here’s Why Trump Deserves Credit for the Stock Market Surge
By Liz PeekAs of Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had scored record highs for nine days in a row; the gains are driving anti-Trumpers crazy. Though the president’s boasts are not always accurate,...
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Passive Investing Is Hot, but It Comes With This Big Risk
Passive investing, at least in the major index funds, is basically momentum investing writ large.
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Wall Street Has Never Been This Calm. Will It Suffer a Rude Awakening?
Lulled into a bliss by perceived dovishness from the Fed, investors are risking a rude awakening in two months' time.
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Women Are Better Investors Than Men. Here Are 3 Reasons Why
Female investors outperform males on average, and new report attributes the better performance to three traits more common in female investors.
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Is the Fed About to Wage War on the Rich?
For years, stocks have been driven relentlessly higher thanks to a single statement that summarized the aggressive central bank largesse since the eurozone crisis flared up in 2012: Policymakers...
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Is the Fed Fighting the Trump Rally?
The evidence is growing that the Federal Reserve’s policymakers are actively working to lean against the stock market's rise, a dramatic reversal from the years of policy support stock market bulls...
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Six Risks That Should Make Stock Market Bulls Nervous
The Wall Street bulls have had things all their own way over the past seven months, with the "Trumpflation" rally in industrial and bank stocks giving way to the tech rally among the "FAANGs" —...
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Is Capitalism Ailing? Why Bill Gross Says It’s Time to Cut Your Risks
By Jennifer Ablan, ReutersBond investor Bill Gross warned on Tuesday that investors should reduce their risk appetite, given the U.S. growth rate is stunted by secular forces "which monetary and even future fiscal policies...
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Even Wall Street Warns: This Market Is 'Weird'
The bull-minded optimists that gravitate toward Wall Street are herded and fed by the major investment banks and brokerages, which because of their commission-based business models, try to encourage...
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Here’s the Biggest Risk to the Global Economy, According to Pimco
By Ciro ScottiThe takeaway from a recent forum on global markets is that while a worldwide trade war seems unlikely, a confrontation on trade between the U.S. and China is not.
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What’s Holding Back Private Infrastructure Investment in the US?
By Anthony CascianoPublic-private partnerships — or P3s, as they’re also called — bring together public agencies and private companies to launch critical improvements to transportation and energy systems. The United...
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Why Today’s Tech Stock Surge Is, and Isn’t, Like the Dot-Com Bubble
The scale of the tech surge is just breathtaking. Investor inflows into tech stocks is at a 15-year high, and the market cap of many tech giants is greater than the economic output of many large...
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Bitcoin Is Surging as Asian Investors Climb Aboard
By Reuters Staff, The Fiscal TimesJapanese and South Korean buying helped drive the price of bitcoin to an all-time high this week, with the digital currency more than doubling its value since the start of the year, analysts and...