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Trump Picks Pam Bondi for Attorney General After Gaetz Withdraws

By Yuval Rosenberg

President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday evening that he has picked former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his next nominee to serve as attorney general, replacing former Rep. Matt Gaetz...
Multiple CEOs Have Now Quit Trump's Manufacturing Council

By Michael Erman, Reuters

The chief executives of Intel Corp, Merck & Co Inc and Under Armour Inc resigned from U.S. President Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council on Monday, following Trump's initially tepid...
Is Putin the $200 Billion Man?

By Catherine Clifford, CNBC

For a short time Thursday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos surpassed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the richest person alive. Amazon's stock price then slid and Bezos went back to the number two spot,...
Watch Trump's Epic Cringe Worthy Handshake with the French President

By Veronika Bondarenko , Business Insider

On Friday, before leaving France, where he was visiting as part of Bastille Day celebrations, US President Donald Trump enthusiastically shook French President Emmanuel Macron's hand for about 25...
Trump's New Fed Nominee Could Be a Seismic Shock to the System

By Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation

President Donald Trump on July 10 nominated Randal Quarles to be one of the seven governors of the Federal Reserve System , the central bank of the United States. Before I get to Quarles and his...

Trump’s Big Problem: He Doesn’t Understand the Rules of the DC Game

By Rob Garver

In his career as a businessman, the overwhelming body of evidence is that Donald Trump was an inveterate rule breaker. Ask the contractors who were never paid, the trail of former partners who have...
The Fight Over the 2020 Census Could Determine Which Party Controls Congress

By Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation

John H. Thompson, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau, just resigned amid a funding fight over the 2020 Census . Since it comes at the same time that the president fired the director of the FBI ,...
Trump Promised a Lot for His First 100 Days. Here’s What He Has — and Mostly Hasn’t — Done

By Rob Garver

The idea of measuring the progress of a presidency by what happens in its first 100 days is utterly arbitrary and arguably “ridiculous.” But that raises the question: Why did Trump work so hard to...
The 45 Donors Who Gave $1 Million to Trump’s Record-Breaking Inauguration

By Janna Herron

While he may not have had record-breaking crowds at his inauguration, President Trump raked in far more cash than any president to spend on the festivities surrounding his swearing in to office...
Is Rex Tillerson Already Irrelevant – or Playing a Long Game?

By Ciro Scotti

Later this month, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is scheduled to host a high-profile meeting in Washington with representatives of 68 nations involved in the U.S.-led coalition to fight the Islamic...

Work to Begin Building Part of Keystone Pipeline

By Juliet Eilperin and Steve Mufson, The Washington Post

The Canadian firm hoping to build a massive oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. gulf coast announced Monday that it will push ahead with plans to build a $2.3 billion segment of the pipeline running...
They Said What? GOP Gaffes, Goofs, and Gaucherie

By Maureen Mackey and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal Times

GOP presidential candidates, election 2012, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, conservative values, social issues, campaign politics, political misspeak, gaffes
Obama, Romney Sweep Real Tax Reform Under the Rug

By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

This week, both Barack Obama and Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney put forward tax reform plans. Only one of them can be taken seriously, however. The Obama plan addresses tax issues...
What CEO Musical Chairs Means to the Job Market

By Michelle Hirsch, The Fiscal Times

usiness analysts and search firms say 2012 will be the year of CEO musical chairs, particularly in the health care and financial services industries, which are both coming to terms with new...
Romney Fights for His Life in Tonight’s Debate

By Eric Pianin

Mitt Romney is fighting for his political life in his home state of Michigan, and tonight’s 20th GOP presidential debate is the most important of the primary season, as Romney fights to overtake the...

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