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One of the most influential money managers on Wall Street recently suggested that the stock market and the economy would suffer big-time if Senator Elizabeth Warren is elected U.S. president.
The United States is on the verge of withdrawing from a 144-year-old postal union in a dispute of the cost of international mail.
Not everyone agrees that a recession is imminent, nor that the next recession will be much more than what economists call a "garden variety" recession.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday released a plan to revitalize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored companies that hold about half the country's $11 trillion mortgage loan...
The District of Columbia's mayor, who does not have the authority most mayors do, wants D.C. to become the 51st state.
The last week of August proved to be one in which the salvos in the trade war between the United States and China took a breather.
Is Joe Biden tied with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders for the lead in the race to be the Democratic presidential nominee? Or is Biden way ahead?
With all the news now about tariffs having turned into an outright trade war with China, and with the market's drop on Friday resembling an even larger drop a week and a half earlier, it's important...
China had a lot more to lose than the United States in the trade war over tariffs and policies. That is still true, but U.S. companies are feeling the burn too.
The Congressional Budget Office is projecting a 10-year budget deficit of $11.4 trillion through the end of 2029. The first $1 trillion annual deficit is forecast to come next year.
New Cherokee Nation chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. plans to seat a member of the Nation in the U.S. House of Representatives. The tribe's right to a congressional representative is specified in an 1835...
A new research report from McKinsey & Co. notes "ominous" parallels between Asian economies just prior to the financial crisis of 1997 and to those economies today.
The National Association of Business Economists released the results of its August survey Monday. Recession concerns have been pushed further out, but worry over federal fiscal policy has diminished.
The reaction in Argentina's top stocks to Argentinian President Mauricio Macri losing a primary election was worse than atrocious. It was a bloodbath.
Very few of the top U.S. retailers sell guns. But of the ones that do, the country's (and the world's) largest retailer is one.