Sears prepares for liquidation after takeover bid fails
(Boston Globe) - NEW YORK — Sears Holdings Corp. is preparing a wind down after chairman Eddie Lampert’s bid to buy several hundred...
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Big Retailers Want Tax Cuts. Towns Bear the Price.
(New York Times) - WAUWATOSA, Wis. — With astonishing range and rapidity, big-box retailers and corporate giants are using an aggressive...
Venezuela’s Lessons for American Socialists
(Bloomberg) t’s hard to overstate how disastrous the reign of Hugo Chavez and his successor Nicolas Maduro has been for Venezuela. A...
The New Green Deal: A Return to the age of confiscatory tax rates
(Hot Air) “Call me a radical,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Anderson Cooper in an interview airing on Sunday’s 60 Minutes. Actually,...
Government Shutdown May Delay Tax Refunds
Taxpayers who file early in tax season may not receive their refunds in a timely manner because of the partial government shutdown that...
Juiciest M&A Deals of 2018
(Forbes) - Each trading day, Dealreporter analysts pick out hints of future material developments in merger arbitrage and special...
Taxpayers who file early
(Business Insider) The IRS typically begins accepting tax returns by the end of January. Tax refunds may be delayed if the ongoing...
99.5% Of People Are Rejected For Student Loan Forgiveness Program
(Forbes) It looks like things haven’t improved much for student loan borrowers: 99.5% of people who applied for public service loan...
Farmers risk loss of federal payments
(Associated Press) he end of 2018 seemed to signal good things to come for America’s farmers. Fresh off the passage of the farm bill,...
Minimum Wage set to increase in 20 States
(TIME) — At Granny Shaffer’s restaurant in Joplin, Missouri, owner Mike Wiggins is reprinting the menus to reflect the 5, 10 or 20 cents...
Trump canceling planned pay increase for federal workers in 2019
(Business Insider) President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday that cancels a planned pay increase for federal workers in...
Sears saved at 59th Minute
(Reuters) Sears Holdings Corp Chairman Eddie Lampert submitted a $4.4 billion takeover bid for the bankrupt U.S. retailer, representing...
The Fed Must Repeal Its Disastrous Rate Increases
(Real Clear Politics) With the stock market falling another 8 percent in the wake of the Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest...
Universal basic income had a rough 2018
(MIT Tech Review) Silicon Valley loves the idea of universal basic income. Many in the tech elites tout it as the answer to job losses...
Economy: The Fed’s Nightmare Scenario
(American Thinker) December 29 marks the twenty-ninth anniversary of the high-water mark in Japanese stocks. On that date in 1989 the...
Trump lashes out at Fed over interest rates
(CNBC) President Donald Trump on Tuesday reiterated that the U.S. Federal Reserve was raising interest rates too quickly but added that...
A Market Rebound..perhaps the Bull is not Dead
(Reuters) The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged more than 1,000 points for the first time on Wednesday, leading a broad Wall Street...
U.S. Holiday Retail Sales Are Strongest in Years
(The Wall Street Journal) Updated Dec. 25, 2018 9:51 p.m. ET Shoppers delivered the strongest holiday sales increase for U.S. retailers...
Trade : Doubting Trump
(Foriegn Policy) As expected, trade policy has dominated the Trump administration’s approach to the world—but seldom in a good way. The...
Gov't Shut Down Day 3: Waiting for a deal
(USAToday) As the partial government shutdown entered a third day on Monday, President Donald Trump sought to cajole Democrats into a...
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