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Democrats to Trump's CFPB chief: Who's looking out for consumers?

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8 years 7 months ago

President Trump's interim consumer chief has made big changes in just a few months.

Calls for paid family leave are getting louder

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8 years 7 months ago

The White House budget blueprint is calling for a paid family leave program for new parents.

This number shows just how much Trump has cracked down on trade

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8 years 7 months ago

The number of trade investigations in President Trump's first year in office rose 81% compared with President Obama's final year in office. The sharp rise reflects Trump's heavy emphasis on trade

'Main Street is roaring': Wages are rising, survey says

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8 years 7 months ago

Small businesses are feeling optimistic and raising wages, according to a report from the National Federation of Independent Business.

The bond market scare might not be over

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8 years 7 months ago

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What is a 'reciprocal tax' and why is Trump talking about it

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8 years 7 months ago

President Donald Trump said Monday he would soon unveil a plan to impose a "reciprocal tax" on imports, and argued that trading relationships with major nations have become unfair.

White House wants to deliver food to the poor, Blue Apron-style

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8 years 7 months ago

The Trump administration is looking to send poor Americans part of their food stamp benefits as a box of groceries, much like meal delivery service Blue Apron.

Why Trump's budget proposal is too optimistic on deficits

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8 years 7 months ago

President Trump's 2019 budget proposes $3 trillion in deficit reduction, based largely on unlikely spending cuts and rosy economic growth assumptions.

How Trump plans to cut prescription drug prices

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8 years 7 months ago

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Trump unveils infrastructure plan

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8 years 7 months ago

President Trump finally unveiled his long-awaited infrastructure plan on Monday. Here's what's in it.

Venezuela oil production is plummeting

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8 years 7 months ago

Venezuela's oil production fell to a new, 30-year low in January, excluding a brief strike in 2003, according to OPEC's monthly report published Monday.

300 people told us what they will do with their bigger paychecks

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8 years 7 months ago

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Oil prices fall below $60 a barrel for the first time this year

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8 years 7 months ago

Record U.S. oil production is raising inventories and spooking the market.

Americans didn't get much of a pay raise last year. Thanks, inflation.

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8 years 7 months ago

Wage growth is still rather meh -- once inflation is taken into account. The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution found increasing inflation over the past two years has eroded the value of any wage increases.

Brexit could still be a train wreck

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8 years 7 months ago

EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier warned Friday that deep differences between the two sides mean Britain could crash out of the bloc in March 2019.

The sneaky way Congress plans to raise the debt ceiling

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8 years 7 months ago

The bipartisan budget deal Congress will vote on calls for the debt limit to be suspended through March 1, 2019 -- a back-door way of increasing the debt limit without acknowledging by how much.