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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...

Billionaires Are Holding an Average of $600M in Cash Each

By Robert Frank, CNBC

Billionaires are holding mountains of cash, offering the latest sign that the ultra-wealthy are nervous about putting more money into today's markets. According to the new Billionaire Census from...
LeBron or Jordan? In the Sneaker Industry, One Clearly Rules

By Jessica Golden, CNBC

LeBron James may be one of the biggest names on the basketball court, but when it comes to sneaker sales, Michael Jordan still holds the title. Nike unveiled 10-time All-Star Lebron James' signature...
Bernie Sanders Could Undercut Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Run

By Eric Pianin

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the irascible Independent socialist from Vermont, is strongly hinting that he will challenge former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president...
Eric Cantor Cashes In with New Wall Street Job

By Yuval Rosenberg

The former House Majority Leader lost his old job in a stunning defeat to a Tea Party challenger in Virginia’s Republican primary earlier this year. His new job is, well, less than stunning. Cantor,...
A Legendary Bull Explains Why He’s Still Bullish

By Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC

Wharton School Professor of Finance Jeremy Siegel has been bullish on the stock market for years now and he's not ready to change his mind yet. But he introduced a caveat Tuesday on CNBC: "We are...

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