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CPAC Showed That Trump’s Personality Cult Is Still Alive — and Still a Threat
Trump's financial interests clearly lie in milking the GOP faithful for all he can, as quickly as he can. ...[Read more]
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Mike Pompeo spent over $10,000 in taxpayer funds on engraved pens for the costly Madison Dinners: watchdog
Now that a Democratic president, Joe Biden, is in the White House, Republicans have suddenly rediscovered fiscal conservatism and concern for the national deficit. But when Donald Trump was still president, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — accor ...[Read more]
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Report reveals how Trump’s team conspired to protect his interests as COVID-19 ransacked the US
Former President Donald Trump's administration is under fire for hindering the government's pandemic response and rolling back Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) coronavirus mitigation guidelines in an effort to protect his interests. Accor ...[Read more]
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Wall Street’s Invisible Hand
The world's largest asset manager has been using workers' savings to help companies block initiatives that would force them to reduce their carbon emissions and disclose their dark money spending. ...[Read more]
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‘Cry Me a River’: Sanders Hits Back as Billionaire Investor Whines About Potential Tax Hikes Amid GameStop Fiasco
As the ongoing GameStop saga sparked renewed calls for a financial transactions tax and other commonsense redistributive measures to tackle soaring inequality and Wall Street abuses, billionaire investor Leon Cooperman took to the airwaves Thursday to fum ...[Read more]
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China condemns one of the nation’s top bankers to death after he was found guilty of accepting $277 million in bribes
China sentenced a former finance chairman to death on charges of bribery and bigamy, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Lai Xiaomin, who has been called China's most corrupt financial official, was the focus of an investigation in 2018 into his time as the ch ...[Read more]
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‘A Fitting End’: Hours Before Leaving Office, Trump Quietly Revokes Order Restricting Lobbying by Former Federal Officials
Making one final mockery of his 2016 campaign promise to "drain the swamp," President Donald Trump early Wednesday quietly revoked his own executive order barring administration officials from lobbying the agencies for which they worked for five years aft ...[Read more]
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Democrats’ Big Coronavirus Idea Is to Subsidize Health Insurers
An unprecedented number of people are losing their jobs in the United States right now. Because of the employer-dependent health care labyrinth we have set up, that means an unprecedented number are also losing their health insurance. The new group of uni ...[Read more]
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Joe Biden’s Biggest 2020 Problem Is Joe Biden
Despite cultivating a populist image, the former vice president has spent his career championing policies favored by Republicans and the corporate elite. ...[Read more]
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Israel: PM Netanyahu Rushed to Hospital
The prime minister is facing multiple corruption allegations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was rushed to hospital Tuesday, Israeli media reported. Netanyahu was suffering from a fever and coughing, several media reports said. Netanyahu's offi ...[Read more]
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The Year the Open Internet Came Under Siege: 2017 Year in Review
The fight between the Federal Communications Commission’s choice to abandon the principles of net neutrality and the majority of Americans started early in 2017 and continued into the very last month of the year. But even with the FCC’s bad vote ...[Read more]
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