Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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Making a Big Money Move? Why You Should Probably Consult a Financial Adviser
By Beth Pinsker, ReutersPeople hire financial advisers with the very obvious goal of getting advice on how to handle their money. So why do investors often cut advisers out of consequential decisions? Some advisers say...
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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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Here's How Much You Would Have Made If You Invested in Amazon 20 Years Ago
By Akin Oyedele, Business InsiderOn May 15, 1997, Amazon , then an online bookstore, went public. The company's stock has seen a stunning 36% compounded annual gain since then. Amazon closed at $961.35 on Friday, giving the company...
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Intimidated by Investing? Five Simple Rules That Help Newbies Get Started
By Janna HerronWhen speaking with Alice Finn about her new book Smart Women Love Money –a call to action for women to get serious about investing—the conversation inevitably touched on the gender wage gap, a big...
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After This Guy Won a Jet.com Contest, Walmart Made Him a Multimillionaire
By Jillian D'onfro, Business InsiderEric Martin is still processing his big news. The 29-year-old marketer from York, Pennsylvania just became a millionaire thanks to a smart investment in Jet.com, which Walmart is buying for more than...
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Why Raiding Your Kids' 529 College Savings Plan Is a Bad Idea
By Kelli B. Grant, CNBCCringe-worthy as it is to dip into your kid's piggy bank, it's probably the nicer financial move compared to raiding his or her 529 college savings account. Nearly half of parents with college...
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Does Passive Investing Make Sense for Your Portfolio?
By Jeff Spross, TheWeek.comVery quietly, the way that many Americans invest their money is changing. And it's changing in a way that could upend the way Wall Street does business. When you think of investment, you probably...
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Mark Cuban: Here’s What You Need to Do Before You Start Investing
By Libby Kane, Business InsiderBillionaire Mark Cuban doesn't mince words. When Entrepreneur asked him on the set of "Shark Tank" for his best advice to make money investing, he replied: "Don't." "The market could go up for years...
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3 Ways the Brexit Affects You
After years of debate and speculation, last night’s vote confirmed that Brexit is actually happening and the United Kingdom is going to withdrawal from the European Union. The actual process of...
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19 Retirement Mistakes You’re Making Other Than Not Saving Enough
By Janna HerronIt’s conventional wisdom by now that Americans aren’t saving enough for retirement. Recent studies have shown that many Baby Boomers might have to live on a mere $7,000 to $9,000 a year during their...
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JPMorgan’s Earnings Call: 6 Key Takeaways
By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal TimesIn one of the most anticipated earnings releases and conference calls of the second-quarter earnings season, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon offered some fresh insight into the whale-sized losses...
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Fighting the Fed? Wall Street Keeps Waiting on QE3
By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal TimesQE3 is coming – really, it is. Just trust us. That’s the refrain on Wall Street, as one economist after another responded to the release of Federal Reserve minutes of a recent policymaking session by...
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5 Execs Who Should Give Back Their Bonuses
By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal TimesInfuriated British parliamentarians argued yesterday that former Barclays CEO Bob Diamond lied to or misled their committee when he described his bank’s ties to the Financial Services Authority,...
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Obama’s Tax Plan As Stale As Month-Old Bread
By Liz PeekPresident Obama is at it again – calling for tax hikes on the wealthy and trying to divert the nation from the sputtering economy. In renewing his well-worn pitch, he claimed that “what’s holding us...
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Scranton's Fiscal Mess May Lead to Bankruptcy
By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal TimesThere’s a financial fiasco brewing in Scranton, Pennsylvania, a city of about 76,000 in the northeast corner of the state – and like so many other cities and states before it, the crisis is pitting...