Whole Hog Politics: Your way-too-early Senate race ratings
Tariffs tax approval; Dems jockey for 2028 position; Elon-gated; Biden hemmed in Harris; a wild commute As Senate Democrats agonize over whether to help Republicans avoid a government ...
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Undoing Michael Barr’s Damage
Photo: Allison Dinner/Shutterstock/Brandon Bell/Getty Images Michael Barr is no longer the Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision, but his regulatory mess lives on. The Trump ...
Wall Street Journal4d
Undoing Michael Barr’s Damage
Michael Barr is no longer the Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision, but his regulatory mess lives on. The Trump Administration has an opportunity to appoint a successor, and it would be ...
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Book Review
Other authors who mean a lot to the musician (and now children’s book writer): Kevyn Aucoin and Hilary Mantel. Karen Russell’s “The Antidote” is set in 1930s Nebraska, when the promising ...
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Kyle Barr
Kyle Barr started at Gizmodo as a breaking news reporter in 2022. Since then, he's covered everything from AI, industry layoffs, and fun stuff like giant Donkey Kong arcade cabinets. He's worked ...
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Trump to Pick Bowman to Serve as Fed’s Top Banking Cop
She is set to follow Michael Barr, an appointee of former President Biden. Barr stepped down from the position last month to avoid a potentially brutal legal and political standoff if Trump had ...
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Will There Be a Trump Recession?
Recession fears are roiling markets, as tech stocks and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell sharply again on Monday. Stock prices have been richly valued for some time, and this may be merely a ...
White House throws bourbon brickbat at India
The Trump White House flagged India's 150% tariff on American bourbon, despite India lowering it to 100% ahead of Modi's ...
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Starting 5: Illinois 106, Iowa 94
" Seventh-seeded Illinois entered Thursday's 106-94 triumph against the 15th-seeded Hawkeyes at full strength; Morez Johnson ...
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Inflation May Prevent the Fed From Fending Off a Recession
A new fear is gripping Wall Street: The economy may go into reverse while tariffs keep consumer prices too hot. Concerns over “stagflation”–a destructive combination of poor growth and ...
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How Each House Member Voted on the Bill to Avoid a Government Shutdown
The House voted 217 to 213 on a bill to fund the federal government through September and avoid a shutdown that would have started this weekend. All but one Republican voted “yes,” joined by ...
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Book Review
By Dwight Garner How the Movies Made Joan Didion a Great American Writer A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by ...