Budget Battles
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Sniping Already Starting Over Baltimore Bridge Reconstruction Costs
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New Poll Finds Liberals and Conservatives Agree: Tax the Super-Rich
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Biden Vows US Will Pay to Rebuild Collapsed Baltimore Bridge
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How Congress Wasted ‘Months of Precious Time’ on the 2024 Spending Bills
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Senate Struggles to Avert Shutdown, Speaker Johnson Faces Revolt
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Long-Delayed $1.2 Trillion Spending Package Zooms to the Finish Line
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Debt Will Hit Record High This Decade, CBO Warns
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Will the Nasdaq Surge End in Another Tech Wreck?
It's feeling like 1999 again. The Clintons are in the headlines. Everyone is enamored with new technologies (VR, autonomous vehicles, robotics). And the sluggish pace of rate hikes from the Federal...
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How Apple Could Put Your Favorite Website Out of Business
By Andrew LumbyFor media companies and other businesses that rely on web advertising for income, ad-blocking has long been a scourge that threatens their livelihood. Thankfully for them, though, ad-blockers such as...
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Here’s What Will Rock the Stock Market Next
By Patti Domm, CNBCEarnings season may not give investors that warm and fuzzy feeling this quarter. For the first time in six years, earnings are in a real decline, expected to be negative with a 2.9 percent drop in S...
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The Pros and Cons of Holding Large Stakes in Apple
By David Randall, ReutersAt more than 15 percent of his fund's assets, John Burnham, manager of the $136 million Burnham Fund, has a larger stake in Apple Inc than any other diversified fund. "I think they are doing...
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Apple’s App Store Bigger Than Hollywood Box Office
By Amey StoneOn Tuesday, Apple posted the largest quarterly profit of any company in history. Its $18 billion net income, up from $13 billion a year ago, is mainly due to selling 74.5 million iPhones in the...
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Why Google Keeps Struggling Against Facebook
By John Melloy, CNBCShares of Google may struggle in coming years as the company faces a maturing search business, lower margins in other products and increased competition from Facebook , according to a Wall Street...
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CES 2015: Prepare for 3D Printers and VR
By Cnbc Staff, CNBCDon't hold your breath for any completely brand new technologies coming out of the International Consumer Electronics Show this year, as the focus among the 3,500 vendors will be more on improving—...
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Why 2015 May Be the Year of the Ear for Wearables
By Nyshka Chandran, CNBCForget smartwatches and the Google Glass - 2015 may be the year of the ear for wearable technology. "There's some interesting information you can capture through the ear. We've been looking at things...
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How Apple Won Christmas 2014 — and the Year in Mobile
Apple capped off a strong comeback year with a very merry Christmas. The iPhone 6 and other Apple smartphones and tablets accounted for 51.3 percent of all such devices activated in the week through...
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Guess Where Most Skilled Immigrants Are Going
By Emilio Zagheni, The ConversationThe United States has always been known as a nation of immigrants and a top destination for scientists and other highly skilled professionals. That ability to attract the world’s most educated and...
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Why Alibaba's Jack Ma Wants to Work with Apple Pay
By Deepa Seetharaman, ReutersAlibaba Group Holdings Ltd ( BABA.N ) executive chairman Jack Ma said he's open to working with Apple Inc ( AAPL.O ) on mobile payments, as China's richest person prepares to call on Hollywood this...
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States Turn to Cloud Computing for Cost Savings
By Jeffrey Stinson, StatelineSeven years ago, the state of Delaware started moving computer servers out of closets and from under workers’ desks to create a consolidated data center and a virtual computing climate. In doing so,...
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Alibaba IPO: Everything You Need to Know
By Marine ColeAlibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce giant, is expected to go public on Friday, September 19 in what is likely to be the largest IPO ever.
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Alibaba, Big Valuation and All, Still a Big Question Mark
By JESSICA TOONKEL, ReutersWhen Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding revealed plans earlier this year to go public on a U.S. stock exchange, financial advisers like Bob Mecca in Hoffman Estate, Illinois braced...
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Why Uber’s on a Collision Course in Germany
By Eric Auchard, ReutersA German regional court has issued a temporary injunction against Uber, the fast-growing, U.S.-based online chauffeur service which is no stranger to legal challenges from taxi-cab rivals and...