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Trump says Fed could have 'at least doubled' latest interest rate cut cnbc.comTrump administration live updates: Judge orders Epstein grand jury records released NBC NewsTrump Says Fed Didn't Cut Rates Enough The Wall Street JournalDonald Trump Reacts to Federal Reserve Interest Rate Cuts News
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While President Trump has made positive moves, panelists on a DealBook task force pointed to Ukraine, Venezuela and, especially, China as serious missteps.
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Netflix-Paramount bidding wars are pushing Warner Bros CEO David Zaslav toward billionaire status—he has one rule for success: ‘Never be outworked' FortuneNetflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Following the Separation of Discovery Global for a Total Enterprise Value of $82.7 Billion (Equity Value of $72.0 Billion) About NetflixNetflix Launches Massive $82.7 Billion Bid for WBD -- Is NFLX Still a Buy? Yahoo FinanceTrump Stands in the Middle as Netflix and Paramount Vie for a Megadeal The New York Times
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Tax-rebate checks are expected to arrive in the second quarter for consumers, but the bulk of relief from Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act is geared toward businesses
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wants his U.S. counterpart to arrest the Florida resident accused of being the South American country's biggest tax debtor.
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US taking 25% cut of Nvidia chip sales "makes no sense," experts say Ars TechnicaWhat to know about Nvidia's Chinese competitors as Trump opens up the market AxiosDonald Trump's flawed plan to get China hooked on Nvidia chips The EconomistTrump's Disappearing Messages The InformationChina adds domestic AI chips to official procurement list for first time Financial Times
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WHAT are Republican lawmakers in politics to achieve? Not many years ago, at the peak of their outrage over Barack Obama''s economic stimulus package, 'balanced budgets' might have featured in the answer. But the frenzied passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act through Congress has revealed the insincerity of the party''s fiscal moralising. Republicans in Congress do not oppose government borrowing when it suits them. Rather, the overarching policy objective that unifies them is cutting taxes—and damn the fiscal consequences. Following the passage of the tax bill through the Senate in the early hours of December 2nd, Republicans are on the brink of achieving their goal.On November 30th budget scorekeepers unveiled a forecast for how much extra economic growth the tax bill might spark: enough to pay for about one third of its $1.5trn cost. Previously, Republicans might have viewed this projection as a triumph. They have long pressed for budget forecasts to include such 'dynamic' effects (see blog). But the score briefly seemed to imperil the bill. It undermined the absurd claim, made by the Republican leadership and the Trump administration, that tax cuts would pay for themselves in full. No serious economist ever thought this credible. Yet the official score seemed to blow Republicans'' ...
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