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Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos participates in the Milestone Celebration Dinner at the Economic Club of Washington in Washington,... Read More
With many publications struggling, the largess of a wealthy owner can be welcome. But there are concerns that these buyers are assuming too... Read More
Ten years on, the reverberations from the global financial crisis are still shaking up the world order. While the catastrophe led to... Read More
Why was the Great Recession so deep? Certainly, the collapse of the housing bubble was the key precipitating event; falling house prices... Read More
After a weekend spent picking over the bones of Lehman Brothers' demise, David Dawkins speaks to the industry about what went wrong, and... Read More
On Sept. 13, 2008, officials from the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department met with a who's who of Wall Street to try to figure out a way... Read More
Addressing students on September 7 at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Obama said: “When you hear how great the economy is... Read More
The US president blames China but even a basic understanding of economics shows it's his own policies that bloat the dollar Read More
Americans are now seeing more jobs, higher wages, and greater investment. The president of the New York Fed remarked that the economy was... Read More
In a recent tweet, President Donald Trump described tariffs like the ones he has imposed on America's biggest trading partners as Read More
The executive from one of China's biggest soybean crushers sat on a panel at a Kansas City agricultural exports conference, listening to an... Read More
Based on median single-family home price changes over the year, 24/7 Wall Street reviewed the fastest growing (and shrinking) housing markets. Read More
Faced with the rising threat of U.S. tariffs hitting Taiwanese companies with factories in China, the island is encouraging firms to return... Read More
The trade conflict between the US and China may last a long time. Read More
It's hard to deny the importance of luck in life. In the end, though, we cannot control our luck—good or bad—but we can control... Read More
3 ways to use your financial resources wisely Read More
Less central bank purchase of Treasury securities, which are not price sensitive, spells trouble for the Treasury, and is bad, bad, bad for... Read More
Active investing has been around for at least 2300 years. Read More
Ever since the 2016 US presidential campaign, Donald Trump has falsely accused the Chinese of keeping the renminbi artificially weak. But the... Read More
The administrative state apparatus may be even more extensive and convoluted than we thought. Bipartisan streamlining is in order. Read More
An alternative risk premia strategy that relies on robust factors within a liquid, transparent, and disciplined framework has the potential... Read More
This paper endeavors to describe the principles that should be reflected — as well as the substantive issues, elements, and provisions... Read More
In general, we don't believe natural disasters pose a significant risk to municipal bond issuers, unless the municipality was directly... Read More
A nonworking spouse is eligible for a Social Security spousal benefit, but age and timing can affect how much. Read More
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The work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz is a study in elite myopia. Read More
Though readers can't exactly raise their hands, this column asks readers to at least internally raise them if they've purchased something on... Read More
Practically speaking, the process of proselytizing and mobilizing a population, consolidating power, and converting an economy to central... Read More
If you look at what the nation really owes, especially related to entitlement spending, that liability number is pushed closer to $80... Read More
Red Ink: Are President Trump's massive tax cuts what's driving federal deficits upward. Everyone says so. But, it's not true. It's just a way... Read More
There's a simple reason why the Republican president's tax cuts haven't inspired companies to move that much money to the United States: The... Read More
The left would have you believe that tax cuts 'cost' us. That's because they, their Deep State, and press allies, think a strong economy... Read More
The two biggest opportunities I see for U.S. investors over the next 5 years are: (i) protecting capital ahead of the next bear market, and... Read More
In some circumstances, an early withdrawal penalty on an IRA could be the better of 2 bad options. It comes down to what is mathematically... Read More
The company can survive its chief executive's strange behavior. But it cannot escape $11 billion in debt. Read More
The European Central Bank's mission accomplished rhetoric is contrary to reality. Economic growth is slowing, and the ECB has hit its... Read More
President Trump wants to win at trade—by which he means: the United States should export more than it imports. Economists have rightly... Read More
The tariffs aren't that high for the moment. Read More
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Many people tend to underestimate the complexity of Medicare and all the available options. Read More
Our analysis provides kind of a Grand Unified Theory (GUT) of what is currently taking place in global financial markets The massive... Read More
Too much cash is chasing too little debt. Everyone knows it, but nothing will change. Read More
CFOs say firms now plan just 2.3 years into the future. Five years ago, they had a 3.5-year horizon. Read More
I've watched him do business for almost two decades. He's not any crazier, he just has more money. Read More
The most significant part of the financial crisis that peaked ten years ago this month was that it took place within eight years of both the... Read More
The received wisdom today is that nobody saw the 2008 crisis coming. But that's just not true. Lots of people saw it coming, and said so at... Read More
Private philanthropy can't replace government, but it can take more chances. Read More
3 ways to use your financial resources wisely Read More
The two biggest opportunities I see for U.S. investors over the next 5 years are: (i) protecting capital ahead of the next bear market, and (ii) subsequently overweighting international assets. Read More
There's a simple reason why the Republican president's tax cuts haven't inspired companies to move that much money to the United States: The money was already here. Read More
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- U.S. Is Getting 'Very, Very Close' to Moving Ahead on a Trade Deal Without Canada
- Equifax Breach: Freezing Your Credit Is Now Free in All States Under a New Law
- Wells Fargo Plans to Cut up to 26,500 Jobs over Three Years
- Alibaba's Jack Ma Says Trump's Trade War Killed Promise of 1 Million U.S. Jobs
- Trump Accuses 'OPEC Monopoly' of Pushing Oil Prices Higher
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- Washington, D.C.
- Trump to Nominate Former Fed Economist Nellie Liang for Board
- Trump's Tariffs Are a Necessary Defense Against China: Peter Navarro
- In Big Win for Trump, U.S. Sanctions Cripple Iranian Oil Exports
- Yellen: Fed Should Commit to Future 'Booms' to Make up for Major Busts
- House Bills Would Make Tax Cuts Permanent, End Some RMDs
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- Do Massachusetts Voters Know What Sen. Warren Wants to Do To Their Savings?
- Don't Ignore Mark-to-Market's Role In the 2008 Meltdown
- Why Judges Aren't Buying Cities' Climate Change Lawsuits
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- NEC's Kudlow on Jobs Report, Investment Boom, China Tariffs
- Wilbur Ross: Trump Isn't Going to Change His Mind on Trade Even If the Stock Market Keeps Falling
- The College Scam
- John Tamny Talks Misguided Trade Tactics
- Widely Held Shares
- E.U. Now Going After Amazon After Slapping Google and Apple with Fines
- A Deal With Coca-Cola Could Make Aurora Cannabis the Real Thing
- Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and His Wife Are Buying Time Magazine
- Tesla Is Reportedly Under Criminal Investigation for Elon Musk's Tweets
- Sprint and T-Mobile Merger Just Got Hit with a Delay
