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Esther Duflo, Youngest Economics Nobel Winner, Gets This From Marie Curie
Three economists were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for their "experimental approach" to solving global poverty.
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Trump Adds 5% Tariff On Chinese Goods In Latest Tit-For-Tat Escalation
President Donald Trump on Friday demanded that U.S. companies stop doing business with China and announced he would raise the rate of tariffs on Beijing, capping one of the most extraordinary days in the long-running U.S.-China trade war.
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US Designates China A 'Currency Manipulator' As Trade War Rages
The United States and China traded blows in an unrestrained economic conflict Monday that sent stock markets plunging and threatened to inflict significant damage on a weakening global economy.
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Trump's Budget Hits Poor Americans The Hardest
President Donald Trump proposed a budget Monday that hits the poorest Americans the hardest, slashing billions of dollars in food stamps, health insurance and federal housing subsidies while pushing legislation to institute broad work requirements for families receiving housing vouchers, expanding on moves by some states to require Medicaid and foo...
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US Senate Confirms Jerome Powell As Next Chairman Of Federal Reserve
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Jerome Powell as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, overwhelmingly voting President Donald Trump's nominee to a 4-year term as one of the world's most powerful stewards of the global economy.
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Esther Duflo, Youngest Economics Nobel Winner, Gets This From Marie Curie
Three economists were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for their "experimental approach" to solving global poverty.
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Trump Adds 5% Tariff On Chinese Goods In Latest Tit-For-Tat Escalation
President Donald Trump on Friday demanded that U.S. companies stop doing business with China and announced he would raise the rate of tariffs on Beijing, capping one of the most extraordinary days in the long-running U.S.-China trade war.
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US Designates China A 'Currency Manipulator' As Trade War Rages
The United States and China traded blows in an unrestrained economic conflict Monday that sent stock markets plunging and threatened to inflict significant damage on a weakening global economy.
-
Trump's Budget Hits Poor Americans The Hardest
President Donald Trump proposed a budget Monday that hits the poorest Americans the hardest, slashing billions of dollars in food stamps, health insurance and federal housing subsidies while pushing legislation to institute broad work requirements for families receiving housing vouchers, expanding on moves by some states to require Medicaid and foo...
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US Senate Confirms Jerome Powell As Next Chairman Of Federal Reserve
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Jerome Powell as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, overwhelmingly voting President Donald Trump's nominee to a 4-year term as one of the world's most powerful stewards of the global economy.
