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  Trump 2.0 goes warp speed on loyalty drive

  Unlike his first term, the US president-elect is making rapid appointments, with personal devotion beating experience or policy views. That explains Fox News host Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon and maybe Senator Marco Rubio as secretary of state. But some posts remain hard to fill.

  13 Nov 2024
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  Control of Congress will bolster second Trump term

  Winning the House of Representatives as well as the Senate would let the new US president build on his $4 trln 2017 tax cut and pass laws on immigration and healthcare. Republican infighting thwarted bigger changes last time. But the party is now more aligned with Trump’s agenda.

  11 Nov 2024
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  Fed’s victory lap runs into Trump-shaped detour

  The FOMC cut rates again, two days after the ex-president was voted back into office. His avowed higher tariffs and renewed tax cuts jeopardize the work that lowered inflation to 2%, alongside 4% unemployment. Threats to central bank independence also add to risks of stagflation.

  7 Nov 2024

• Trump re-election entrenches global instability

  6 Nov 2024

• Crypto election gusher has bipartisan payoff

  28 Oct 2024

• Elon Musk creates a must-win election

  25 Oct 2024

• Biden’s precise industrial policy may soon mutate

  24 Oct 2024

• Trump stumbles onto a useful globalist policy

  22 Oct 2024

• US economy is partying, but voters are hungover

  16 Oct 2024

• Labor is on the Fed’s side against inflation

  10 Oct 2024

• Dockworkers unpack lasting weak trade links

  1 Oct 2024

• Kamala Harris’ economic plan bows to realities

  27 Sep 2024

• Trump lays out gluttonous tax-break smorgasbord

  25 Sep 2024

• Jay Powell gives next US president an early boost

  19 Sep 2024

• Data decline blurs Fed’s soft-landing vision

  18 Sep 2024

• Joe Biden’s climate law is too valuable to repeal

  18 Sep 2024

• There’s no debate: big US spending is a tough sell

  11 Sep 2024

• Jay Powell’s task: reconcile markets and reality

  23 Aug 2024

• Kamala Harris’ welcome housing boost is overdue

  21 Aug 2024

• Kamalanomics contains too much of some good things

  16 Aug 2024

• Dueling US tax ideas miss $4 trln elephant in room

  15 Aug 2024

• Court-emboldened capital puts labor on front lines

  9 Aug 2024

• Jay Powell excels at his top job: punching bag

  8 Aug 2024

• US election crimps fixes for energy, weed and more

  6 Aug 2024

• Labor market flags growth slowdown not recession

  5 Aug 2024

• Fed’s next challenge: the unemployment boogeyman

  26 Jul 2024

• Corporate America revels in Supreme Court windfall

  23 Jul 2024

• Dollar-cost averaging is Democrat donor watchword

  22 Jul 2024

• Joe Biden displays power and risks of incumbency

  21 Jul 2024

• Trump VP pick plays on a message of decline

  15 Jul 2024

• Trump’s gains supercharge higher-for-longer trade

  3 Jul 2024

• US deregulatory triage ranges from cars to drugs

  1 Jul 2024

• Would-be Biden donors may start to think twice

  28 Jun 2024

• White-collar crime gets crack at messy due process

  27 Jun 2024

• Presidential debate puts wrong people on the spot

  27 Jun 2024

• Top US court prepares a deregulatory deluge

  14 Jun 2024

• Jerome Powell goes from astrophysics to stargazing

  11 Jun 2024

• Immigration benefits outweigh US border troubles

  5 Jun 2024

• Biden’s hydrogen goals are like oil and water

  4 Jun 2024

• Donald Trump verdict judged leniently by investors

  31 May 2024

• Trump’s rich backers normalize criminal behavior

  30 May 2024

• Big banks win with FDIC head’s resignation

  21 May 2024

• European defense dollars will flow to the US

  20 May 2024