We have discovered something that the supporters of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump agree on: the Federal Reserve's half-point interest rate cut this week was a political gift to Harris.
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Elon Musk is criticizing the FAA's proposed fines for SpaceX, calling on the agency to instead focus on Boeing's Starliner mishaps. Musk characterizes the FAA's problems with SpaceX as "trivia," while Boeing left NASA astronauts stranded in space for months with its spacecraft.
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Contrary to the president's claim, Biden appointed Powell to lead the Fed for a second term in 2021 and has met with the chair multiple times.
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The Federal Reserve’s decision on Wednesday to begin lowering interest rates raises the question of how fast rates should be expected to decline.
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On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “First Move,” CNN Business Editor-at-Large, International Business Correspondent, and host Richard Quest stated that 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump has a point that the Federal Reserve is “either playing politics or you’ve
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On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Breitbart News economics editor John Carney stated that the Federal Reserve should have waited until after the election to make rate cuts and that by announcing a cut of 50 basis points
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Fed policy is not formally on the ballot in November, but interest rates over the next four years may turn on the results of the election.
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced that his company will file a lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in response to a proposed $633,009 fine related to unapproved launches last year, which Musk calls "lawfare."
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Fed officials now see more unemployment and less inflation this year and next year.
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As the Fed prepares to cut rates again, it’s worth remembering that rate cuts are never free, even when they seem like an easy fix. For the market, it’s always fun while it lasts, but the reckoning is rarely far behind.
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A Chinese national named Song Wu, employed by a gigantic Chinese state-owned defense conglomerate, was indicted in the Northern District of Georgia on Monday for a scheme to hack U.S. government agencies including NASA, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
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New York's manufacturing sector expanded in September for the first time in nearly a year.
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If the Biden-Harris administration's policies are not hurting the economy, why are prominent Democrats urging the Federal Reserve to announce a super-sized interest rate cut?
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An FBI official who spoke to reporters about the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump reportedly has a history of hating the former president.
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In early September 1864, the war was not going well for the North. Lincoln had staked the Republican Party’s political future on military victory over the Confederacy, yet Confederate General Jubal Early’s army had nearly marched on Washington. Another military failure on the battlefield would be disastrous for Lincoln.
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Someone call in the vice principal for student discipline! The market is bullying the Federal Reserve again.
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Tens of thousands of conservatives joined a rally in Sao Paulo on Saturday – Brazilian Independence Day – in support of former President Jair Bolsonaro and denouncing the recent Supreme Court ban on the social media outlet Twitter (X), among other issues.
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On Sunday Elon Musk countered Kamala Harris's ongoing gun control push with an X post which framed "the right to bear arms" as the means of protecting all other rights.
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Wall Street donors to Vice President Kamala Harris's presidential campaign are pleading with her to fire the nation's top trust-buster at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Lina Khan. The donors complain that Khan has held up corporate mergers that they stand ready to profit from.
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Progressive mandates have bogged down the Biden-Harris expansion of broadband so that not one American has been connected 1,024 days after lawmakers passed the so-called infrastructure bill.
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A former deputy chief of staff to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) and her husband were arrested Tuesday, according to a law enforcement official.
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The FAA has grounded SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket for the second time in less than two months following a failed booster landing attempt during the Starlink 8-6 mission.
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The federal funds futures market is pricing in a cut in each of the remaining three meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee this year.
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Cutting rates too quickly could lead to a resurgence of inflation, forcing the Fed into a tighter monetary policy stance down the road.
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Powell says Fed needs to cut to prevent further weakening of the labor market.
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An Ohio school district compelled a Christian teacher's speech by telling her to use the "preferred pronouns" of transitioning students, a federal court ruled.
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A federal judge in Texas is blocking the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) rule banning non-compete employment agreements that would have prohibited United States businesses from imposing such clauses on millions of American workers.
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