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John Minchillo / AP How the Tax Plan Will Send Jobs Overseas
Companies are going to be able to save a ton of money by locating factories abroad.
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Tim Aeppel / Reuters An Expectations-Beating Jobs Report for November
The addition of 228,000 jobs could provide the Fed with a reason to raise interest rates before the end of the year.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters What's at Stake in the Fight Over the CFPB
“There come times when even the most savvy or knowledgeable consumer is still going to get burned.”
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty America’s Lost Einsteins
Millions of children from poor families who excel in math and science rarely live up to their potential—and that hurts everyone.
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Christina Chung The Never-Ending Foreclosure
How can the country survive the next economic crash if millions of families still haven't recovered from the last one?
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Spencer Platt / Getty Poor Girls Are Leaving Their Brothers Behind
As a college education becomes increasingly important in today’s economy, it’s girls, not boys, who are succeeding in school. For kids from poor families, that can make the difference between social mobility and a lifetime of poverty.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Why the Trump Administration Is Suing to Block the AT&T–Time Warner Merger
The lawsuit may pit AT&T and Time Warner against the Justice Department. But it's the tech industry that might suffer the most.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Disappearing Right to Earn a Living
Want to become a florist in Louisiana? A home-entertainment installer in Connecticut? Or a barber anywhere? You’re going to need a license for that—and it’s going to cost you.
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Richard T. Nowitz / Getty The Very Bad Arguments for Killing the Estate Tax
It’s minuscule, cumbersome, and easily avoided. It's also a symbol of Washington’s approach to dynastic wealth and the American Dream.
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Miami-Dade County Buses Have a Branding Problem
A new “trackless train” shows that commuters have a long way to go before embracing a perfectly good form of transit.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Why the GOP’s Dream of Tax Reform Is (Probably) Doomed
Republicans are screwing up their big tax cut. They can still salvage it. But they have to think small.
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Reed Saxon / AP A Disney-21st Century Fox Merger Would Be Invincible
It would be an enormous movie-and-television company. And an enormous antitrust headache.
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Koi Sasahara / AP Why Aren’t U.S. Cars Popular in Japan?
American companies say protectionist policies keep them out. The reality is more complicated.
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Seth Wenig / AP Could a Tax Fix the Gig Economy?
A group in New York is calling for a fee on all gig-economy transactions in order to provide workers with benefits like paid sick leave.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The U.S. Economy Reaches Lowest Unemployment Rate Since 2000
In October, the country added 261,000 jobs, picking up after a short slump.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The GOP Targets America’s Most Loved and Hated Tax Break
Liberal groups wanted to get rid of the mortgage-interest deduction. But not in the way that congressional Republicans are doing it.
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Andrew Harnik / AP / Katie Martin / … Who Is Jerome Powell, Trump’s Pick for Fed Chair?
His nomination represents a political compromise, as he's a regulation-cautious Republican who would likely keep up the policies of his Democratic predecessor.
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John Gress / Getty The U.S. Isn’t Prepared for the Next Recession
When it comes—and it will, eventually—it’ll be worse than necessary.
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Reuters Trump Is Turning the Fed Pick Into a Reality Show
Why, yes, the president of the United States did create an Instagram teaser for his forthcoming central-banking announcement.
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Joe Raedle / Getty Why Nerds and Nurses Are Taking Over the U.S. Economy
A blockbuster report from government economists forecasts the workforce of 2026—a world of robot cashiers, well-paid math nerds, and so (so, so, so) many healthcare workers.
