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Brent settled at $88.52 on Friday after a week of tanker attacks and no diplomatic movement. Washington's plan is to wait Tehran out —...
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Coming into Donald Trump’s second presidency, it was often assumed that the U.S. Supreme Court would act as a rubber stamp for whatever Trump...
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Would Trump raise taxes on the rich? Raising taxes on the rich, or anyone else for that matter, is one of those things that has...
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The US Navy is developing a class of attack submarines that will serve into the 21st century. The US Navy’s SSN(X) attack submarine, now...
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The Federal Reserve is supposed to have independence. The president does not put public pressure on the Fed chairman for certain outcomes or really...
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The polling news is all bad for Trump: Last week was comparatively quiet for economic news, following the massive volatility of the previous week,...
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U.S. President Donald Trump, now in his second term, has spent a significant amount of time targeting centers of power that he perceives as...
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Trump vs. Musk is Back? It’s been several months of turmoil at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), with cuts from DOGE hitting that agency...
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Did Donald Trump Damage the U.S. Dollar? Last week, as a result of the chaotic week of tariffs being imposed and pulled back, the...
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Donald Trump has clearly wanted, for years, to start a trade war with China. And in the opening weeks of his second administration, he...