Budget Battles
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Biden Struggles to Save His Candidacy as Pressure Grows
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Democrats Start to Publicly Back Away From Biden
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Supreme Court Hands Trump a Historic Win
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Biden Looks to Rebound From a Disastrous Debate
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IMF Sends an Urgent Warning on US Debt
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Biden Admin Lowers Prices on Dozens of Drugs
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House Republicans Release Plan to Cut FBI Funding
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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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Obama’s Legacy on Corporate Criminals: Too Little, Too Late
By David DayenJust a couple of weeks before the end of the Obama administration, the Justice Department has begun to come around on the importance of holding individual executives accountable for corporate crimes...
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As Tesla Fires Up the Gigafactory, Lithium Prices Are Headed for a Wild Ride
By Nick Cunningham, Oilprice.comTesla fired up the gigafactory in the first week of 2017, which could mark a turning point for the energy storage industry. The gigafactory in Nevada will begin mass production of lithium-ion...
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Why the Huge Bitcoin Rally Has Hit a Wall
By Jemima Kelly, ReutersA dramatic rally in digital currency bitcoin came to a spectacular end on Thursday with a plunge of up to 20 percent as China's yuan rose sharply - further evidence of an intriguing inverse...
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5 Risks Investors Face in 2017
By Janna HerronThe Dow Jones Industrial Average has been flirting with 20,000 and the S&P 500 is closing in on a 10 percent gain for the year. Investors are hoping 2017 is more of the same and that the bull...
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Investor Optimism Is at Extreme Levels Heading into 2017
The Dow Jones Industrial Average remains unable to cross the 20,000 threshold despite 10 days of trying. Momentum has clearly been lost. Yet based on survey and technical data, investors have reached...