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Matthieu Bourel The ‘Madman’ Behind Trump’s Trade Theory
Peter Navarro—a business-school professor, a get-rich guru, a former Peace Corps member, and a former Democrat—is among the most important generals in Trump’s trade war.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Amazon Was Never Going to Choose Detroit
The web retailing giant might put a corporate headquarters in affluent Washington. That should come as no surprise.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The One Issue That’s Really Driving the Midterm Elections
Ask voters what they care about, and they’re very clear.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Kamala Harris’s Trump-Size Tax Plan
The California senator is the latest Democrat to propose giving billions of dollars in cash to lower-income families.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Last Apolitical Institution in Washington
President Trump keeps criticizing the Federal Reserve. The central bank keeps ignoring him.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump’s Shady Accounting Playbook for the Hyper-rich
A sweeping New York Times investigation shows the legal and legally questionable maneuvers President Trump used to accumulate his wealth.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Are Immigrants a Drain on Government Resources?
The Trump administration’s argument for denying green cards to immigrant families is based on faulty math.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Wages Are Low and Workers Are Scarce. Wait, What?
The low unemployment rate and stagnant pay point to a depressed economy underneath.
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Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters The Rise of the Zombie Small Businesses
What your chicken dinner says about wage stagnation, income inequality, and economic sclerosis in the United States
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters America’s Invisible Pot Addicts
More and more Americans are reporting near-constant cannabis use, as legalization forges ahead.
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Why the U.S. Should Provide Universal Basic Income
The government should consider giving out monthly Social Security checks—no strings attached.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Jeff Bezos’s $150 Billion Fortune Is a Policy Failure
Growing inequality in the United States shows that the game is rigged.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Are Stock Buybacks Starving the Economy?
A new report finds that big companies could have given their workers thousands of dollars’ worth of raises with the money they spent on their own shares.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Fixing America’s Forgotten Places
Opportunity Zones, created by Trump’s tax law, are meant to help the heartland thrive and make the country more equal—but can they pull it off?
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Aleksandra Michalska / Reuters How Much Damage Will Trump’s Trade War Do?
Higher prices, slowing growth, mounting layoffs—and the indirect costs may be even greater.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Say Hello to Full Employment
Want to know where the economy is headed? Look at Des Moines.
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Loren Elliott / Reuters How America Treats Its Own Children
Child poverty, homelessness, violence, obesity, illness: The United States is already an outlier.
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Evan Vucci / AP Left Economy, Right Economy
Republicans and Democrats are looking at the same set of facts and suddenly seeing very different things.
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Eric Learned / Alexandre Godreau / Remi Jacquaint ... A Promise So Big, Democrats Aren’t Sure How to Keep It
Progressives are lining up behind a jobs guarantee—but leaving the details for later.
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Reuters The Ivanka Fund
How did the Trump administration end up spurring the creation of a gender-equality initiative for some of the world’s poorest women?
