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Congress just grilled a group of CEOs over the GameStop stock price fiasco in a hearing filled with heated exchanges, insults, and lots of technical difficulties
Congress' hearing on GameStop's stock-bubble fiasco primarily focused on grilling the head of Robin…
Ben Gilbert
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If wanting to fire people for supporting Trump or Biden isn't cancel culture, then nothing is
A new poll found a disturbing percentage of Americans support firing an executive who donated to Tr…
Anthony L. Fisher
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There's A New Study That Says Welfare Pays Better Than Work - Here's Why It's Total Nonsense
1. Very few people actually qualify for all eight of the programs Cato looks at. Particularly, Temp…
Josh Barro
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Here's how much more laptops, TVs, and smartphones could cost under Trump's proposed tariffs, consumer group says
Donald Trump's proposed tariffs would hit the consumer tech sector, raising prices on US consumers'…
Erin Snodgrass
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A necessary step or government overreach? Economists are divided over Kamala Harris' plan to clamp down on food inflation
Kamala Harris unveiled a plan for the first ever federal ban on price gouging. Economic experts hav…
Filip De Mott
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A 'buy bitcoin' sign flashed behind Janet Yellen during a 2017 hearing just sold for $1 million
The sign, scrawled on a yellow legal pad, was held behind Janet Yellen during a 2017 Congressional …
Yuheng Zhan
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Over a dozen GOP states seeking to block student-loan forgiveness through Biden's SAVE repayment plan may have been set back by a separate court ruling
A ruling in a separate lawsuit to block student-debt relief could suggest how the court might rule …
Ayelet Sheffey
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AI will spark massive disruptions to labor markets and there's no social safety net that can contain the fallout, University of Chicago professor says
American workers face a "day of reckoning" as the economy shifts to an AI-fueled labor force, one U…
Jennifer Sor
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How your iPhone could get worse if the DOJ gets its way with Apple
The US Department of Justice is trying to get Apple to open up its ecosystem. But is that something…
Grace Kay
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Argentina should ditch the peso in favor of a 'hard dollar regime' to get inflation under control, think tank says
Dollarization "is the equivalent of a hangman's noose: it mothballs the central bank and fully does…
Jason Ma
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2 House Republicans push back against claims that a president can easily fix the border: 'Why didn't Trump just shut down the border? He couldn't.'
The GOP is now on the verge of tanking an immigration agreement after failing an impeachment vote.
Madison Hall
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The lawsuits to block student-loan forgiveness keep coming — and the latest would keep borrowers who 'have earned the forgiveness' in debt, Biden's Education Department says
Conservative groups recently sued Biden over his latest effort to cancel $39 billion in student deb…
Ayelet Sheffey
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US to provide employment authorisation cards for five years
The United States has announced it will provide employment authorisation cards to some non-immigran…
PTI
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Real estate made China rich. Now it's looking more like kryptonite.
Chinese house prices dropped the most in eight years last month, in a sign a key engine for the wor…
George Glover
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Younger generations might not have to worry about recessions as much as their elders. It would be great news for their job security and stock portfolios.
Data from NBER shows a promising trend: Recessions have become less common in the US.
Jacob Zinkula,Madison Hoff
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Koch-backed think tank is suing Biden's student-loan forgiveness, arguing it undermines their hiring efforts by relieving debt for public servants
After Biden launched the student-loan forgiveness application, the Cato Institute filed a federal l…
Ayelet Sheffey
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A federal judge threw out a lawsuit seeking to block student-loan forgiveness for over 800,000 borrowers
A federal judge ruled the conservative groups seeking to block student-debt relief for borrowers on…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Conservative groups are once again trying to strip student-loan forgiveness from 804,000 borrowers on income-driven repayment plans, even though some of them already received the relief
After a judge threw out their lawsuit to block $39 billion in student-debt relief, the Cato Institu…
Ayelet Sheffey
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A conservative group filed a lawsuit to block $39 billion in debt relief for 800,000 borrowers on income-driven repayment plans
After Biden said he was canceling debt for thousands of student-loan borrowers, the Cato Institute …
Ayelet Sheffey
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Bitcoin is a bubble with 'no inherent value and is terribly overpriced,' top economist Steve Hanke says
"Bitcoin is a bubble. It has no inherent value and is terribly overpriced," the top economist tweet…