The Fed Just Made a Pivotal Rate Cut. What Will It Do Next? After the Fed’s pivotal interest rate cut this week, policymakers face the question of how much further to reduce borrowing costs, and how fast. 09/20/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Fed Is About to Get Validation for Its Jumbo Rate Cut The Federal Reserve’s preferred price metric and a snapshot of consumer demand are seen corroborating both the central bank’s aggressive interest-rate cut and Chair Jerome Powell’s view that the ... 09/20/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
The Fed surprised many investors with a jumbo rate cut this week. It won’t get much easier to predict the next move Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is known for providing clear signals about the central bank’s next interest rate move in order to avoid roiling markets. But Wall Street was mostly clueless this ... 09/20/2024 - 7:15 am | View Link
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Stock market today: Asian shares are mixed as Wall Street gears up for an interest rate cut Markets in mainland China and South Korea were closed. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.3% to 8,143.00. Traders are eagerly awaiting the Fed's decision Wednesday on interest rates, which it is ... 09/16/2024 - 1:16 pm | View Link
By KEVIN FREKING
WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders announced an agreement Sunday on a short-term spending bill that will fund federal agencies for about three months, averting a possible partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins Oct. 1 and pushing final decisions until after the November election.
Temporary spending bills generally fund agencies at current levels, but an additional $231 million was included to bolster the Secret Service after the two assassination attempts against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and additional money was added to aid with the presidential transition, among other things.
Lawmakers have struggled to get to this point as the current budget year winds to a close at month’s end.
Former President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he doesn’t “think” he’d run again for president in 2028 if he falls short in his bid to return to the White House in 2024.
“No, I don’t. I think that will be, that will be it,” Trump said when journalist Sharyl Attkisson asked him if he’d run again.
The comment was notable both because Trump seemed to rule out a fourth bid for the White House and because he rarely admits the possibility he could legitimately lose an election.
Former President Donald Trump blamed COVID-19 on "dust" that "flew in from China."
In an interview that aired on Sunday, Heritage Foundation-funded journalist Sharyl Attkisson asked Trump about how well he handled the pandemic.
"In terms of overall, I think I did an amazing job with COVID," the former president insisted. "I never got the credit for it.
The sheer mendacity that J. D. Vance highlights while continuing to push an already debunked lie makes him unfit to serve Ohio in the Senate and certainly means he is unfit to ever be vice president of the United States under a 78-year-old bloviating blowhard. If Donald were elected, his mini-me, J.
Sending a Tesla Cybertruck, or a bunch of them, to a Chechen warlord violates international sanctions as they are a Russian ally. When the Tesla owner was accused of doing just that last month Musk did what all would-be fascists do: He lied about it.
Given the penalties for such behavior, the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is now accusing Musk of disabling the Cybertrucks, making them unusable.