Budget Battles
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Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs Against BRICS Nations
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Trump Ratchets Up His Tariff Threats
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Trump Picks Project 2025 Architect to Oversee Budget
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Trump Taps Hedge Fund Mogul for Treasury Secretary
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Trump Picks a New Attorney General Nominee After Gaetz Withdraws
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Musk and Ramaswamy Outline Plan to Slash Federal Workforce
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Trump Picks TV’s Dr. Oz to Run Medicare and Medicaid
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Here’s Who Wins as Trump Exits the Paris Climate Accord
By Huileng Tan, CNBCPresident Donald Trump's decision to exit an international climate agreement sparked outrage from many quarters, but some countries are likely already eyeing the positives from the move, experts said...
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Trump's 'Big Win' in Europe Is the World's Big Loss
By Rob GarverLeaving the de facto leader of Europe staring into a half-empty beer stein and reassessing everything she and her fellow Europeans thought they knew about the world order and America’s role in it was...
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Trump’s Blunders on NATO and Russia Make Our European Allies Cringe
If you thought Donald Trump’s foreign policy positions were politically calculated toss-offs, think again. The interview he gave The Times of London last week put the world on notice: The views Trump...
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On Day One, Trump Faces Two Huge Foreign Policy Challenges
Barack Obama isn’t handing Donald Trump any portfolio of foreign-policy successes as he passes the baton the next president. Trump is about to step into a world that his peace-prize-winning...
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Why Trump Needs to Hold Countries That Hack and Steal Accountable
Many assert that President-elect Donald Trump is against free trade. But standing against the theft of intellectual property and old-fashioned mercantilism, as Trump has promised to do, is an...
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5 Foreign Policy Challenges President-Elect Trump Faces Before He Unpacks
Foreigners always watch U.S. elections, but rarely with the edge-of-the-seat suspense evident as the votes were tallied Tuesday. With Donald Trump’s dramatic victory, they’re as much in the dark as...
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Blimey! British Brexit Has a New Hurdle: Parliament Must Approve
By Griffe Witte, The Washington PostLONDON — A senior British court on Thursday dealt a severe blow to Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to begin the process of exiting the European Union early next year, ruling she must get...
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Britain’s Tarnished Sterling: A Global Warning for Theresa May on Brexit
At 7:07 last Friday in Hong Kong, the British pound suddenly plummeted: In the next two minutes it fell 6.1 percent, to $1.18, its lowest level since 1985. In the next half hour, it regained most of...
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Erdoğan Is Destroying Turkey’s Hopes for Democracy
By Hilton L. RootTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s extra-legal roundup of scores of presumed supporters of the failed July 15 coup against his government is quickly taking its place in modern history alongside...
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Italexit: Is the Eurozone’s Third Largest Member on the Way Out?
By Desmond LachmanEurope has seemingly coped well with its recent Brexit shock, but now looms the prospect that Italy might be heading for the Eurozone’s door. This should be of great concern to European and global...
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After Brexit, EU Leaders Must Wake Up and Smell the Rage
By Liz PeekWhat a difference a week makes. As various parties in Britain campaigned to leave the EU, the media derided their quest as the byproduct of xenophobia and bigotry. Voters preferring “Brexit,” we were...
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The Upside of Brexit: 9 Ways You Can Save Money
By Suman BhattacharyyaThe U.K.’s surprising Brexit vote sent global markets into a tailspin, with economists warning about the possibly dire long-term effects. But beyond the gloomy scenarios lie a few upsides, at least...
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How Britain Could Reverse Its Historic Brexit Vote
Oops! Maybe they just wanted to make a point when 52 percent voted to leave the European Union. But the British voters did more than that: Investors (including public pensions, unions, and 401ks)...
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Behind the Brexit Crisis: Rage Against the Global Financial Machine
The damage from last week's surprising Brexit vote is continuing this week, with U.S. equities down again sharply on Monday. Key technical support levels have already been violated or are under...
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After the Brexit, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Britain’s stunning decision to leave the European Union marks Europe’s rude awakening from its long dream of perfect unity. That is decisively over now, and a cold dawn awaits. The EU flag will have...