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January's full wolf supermoon and the Quadrantid meteor shower will start off the new year CNNWinter's Best Meteor Shower Begins Tonight: How To See The Quadrantids ForbesQuadrantid meteor shower peaks this week: How to see the first 'shooting' stars of the year Live ScienceWatch the First Meteor Shower of 2026 Light Up the Sky This Weekend Scientific American
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‘The Night Manager' Season 2: Evoking John le Carré The New York TimesThe Night Manager review: The globe-trotting thriller's long-awaited second series is 'irresistible' BBCThe Night Manager TV review — hit spy thriller makes a confident return after a decade Financial TimesTom Hiddleston - and his impeccable wardrobe - returns for The Night Manager season two The TelegraphNew Year's Day TV: Tom Hiddleston's huge return in The Night Manager The Guardian
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Health subsidies expire, launching millions of Americans into 2026 with steep insurance hikes AP NewsAmericans brace to start New Year without healthcare BBCObamaCare subsidies expire; premiums spike for millions: What to know The HillThe New Year health-insurance shock facing millions of Americans The Economist
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Crypto soared in 2025 — and then crashed. Now what? NPRCryptocurrency slump erases 2025 financial gains and Trump-inspired optimism The GuardianBTC, ETH price analysis: Bitcoin, ether drop 22% in one of their weakest Decembers CoinDeskBitcoin Swings All Year, Marks First Annual Decline in Three Years ?????Bitcoin Drops 32% After Eric Trump's Optimistic Crypto Forecast Coinfomania
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The legendary 95-year-old investor spent decades building his company into one of the world's largest and most powerful. Now Greg Abel is taking it over.
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Gold and silver are on pace for their biggest yearly percentage gains since 1979.
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For investors worldwide, 2025 was anything but boring: It was great for metals, surprisingly bad for crypto and particularly nice for stocks outside of the U.S.
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Shirley is a 23-year-old self-described "independent YouTube journalist" who made prank videos in high school before pivoting to politics. He participated in a White House roundtable in October.
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Adjusts Imports of Timber, Lumber, and Their Derivative Products into the United States The White House (.gov)Trump postpones tariff hikes on furniture, kitchen cabinets for a year CNNTrump Delays New Tariff Hike on Furniture, Kitchen Cabinets Bloomberg.comTrump delays tariff hike for upholstered furniture, kitchen cabinets by one year Reuters
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Samantha LaDuc has nailed some big calls on stocks in recent years. She sees another S&P 500 high coming in 2026, but an unhappy Main Street.
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Although the S&P 500 has returned 19.3% so far this year, dozens of stocks are showing significant declines for 2025.
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The quirky e-commerce startup is quietly executing a turnaround after years of downsizing and red ink.
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Disruption. It's coming for the U.S. dollar in the form of digital currency. Last week the Biden administration detailed a broad plan for adopting a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the coming years. The Departments of Energy, Commerce, the Treasury, and other agencies weighed in on how to manage and regulate a CBDC.
The government is reacting in part to the explosive growth of digital currencies. About three out of ten U.S. adults currently invest in some form of cryptocurrency, or "crypto," like Bitcoin or Ethereum. These digital "coins" rely on a decentralized network of computers to verify financial transactions, cutting out third parties like banks or credit cards.
The good, the bad, and the ugly of crypto
Advocates of crypto point to its affordability, efficiency, and its ability to reach consumers with little or no access to traditional banking services. With just a mobile phone or a crypto ATM, consumers can easily send and receive digital currency, even across international borders.
On the other hand, crypto is still largely unregulated and volatile. Investors in Bitcoin, for example, saw returns of over 70% in 2021, but the currency is down almost 60% year to date. And if you send your payment to the wrong account (called a "digital wallet") there may be no way to retrieve it. Crypto has also been used for money laundering, fraud, and to fund terrorism. Several
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IN THE annals of modern American economic policymaking, among the most revered pieces of legislation is the Tax Reform Act of 1986. During the three decades since its passage, Democrats and Republicans alike have hailed the law not only for overhauling the country''s tax system, which Jimmy Carter famously called 'a disgrace to the human race', but also for doing so with bipartisan support in both houses of Congress. As Republicans embark on yet another sweeping rewrite of the tax code, many point to the 1986 effort as a model to emulate. It was 'really something special', Donald Trump said in August. However, admirers of America''s last comprehensive revision of its tax code should be disappointed with the GOP''s current attempts.The bill that passed in 1986 took a long, arduous path to President Ronald Reagan''s desk. Originating out of a three-volume report by the Treasury department, it faced numerous brushes with death, and took more than two years to wind its way through Congress. The process included full committee hearings, markups and deliberations. The final bill eliminated many deductions, credits and exemptions that favoured some taxpayers over others. This generated new revenues, which were then used to reduce tax rates, mainly for low and middle-income individuals. The bill did ...
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