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How the Federal Budget Gets Made
Introduction Many people probably assume that Congress, like a household, sits down…
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How the Federal Budget Gets Made
Introduction Many people probably assume that Congress, like a household, sits down once a year, takes an accounting of how much money is likely t…
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Starbucks Is Changing Course on Corporate Activism
Shareholders of some of America’s biggest restaurant brands have been making a simple but loud argument during the past few years: focus on the food…
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Trump's $5,000 Offer Reveals How Washington Works
In a speech in early September, Trump raised eyebrows with a pitch that seems outright shameless: And here is my promise: If the Republicans wi…
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The Road to Serfdom Runs Through Both Parties
Following his deportation from the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn warned, “There always is this fallacious belief: ‘It would not be the same h…
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What Turned a Stock Market Crash into the Great Depression?
To most Americans, October is “scary” because of Halloween. Economists recall another scary day: Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929. Over that Monday a…
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The S&P Is Soaring, But Two Thirds of Stocks Are Stalling.
US equity investors have a lot to cheer of late, despite stubborn inflation, rising interest rates and financial tightening, and falling consumer c…
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Expectations Matter. This Year's Economics Nobel Explains Why.
On Monday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics to Robert Hall (Stanford University and the Hoover In…
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