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Mexico approves up to 50% tariffs on China and other countries BBCMexico Approves Up to 50% Tariffs on Chinese, Asian Imports Bloomberg.comMexico Approves 50% Tariffs on Many Chinese Imports The New York TimesExclusive: Mexico tariff hike to hit $1 billion India car exports despite automaker lobbying Reuters
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Over $50 billion in under 24 hours: Why Big Tech is doubling down on investing in India cnbc.comIndia Draws $52 Billion From Amazon, Microsoft in Tech Expansion Bloomberg.comAmazon announces $35 billion investment in India by 2030 to advance AI innovation, create jobs About AmazonJobs, security, skills: How India's giant database is helping over 300 million informal workers step up, wit
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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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House Gives Bipartisan Approval to $900 Billion Defense Bill The New York TimesDespite opposition, US House passes record $901bn defence spending bill Al JazeeraCompromise NDAA would let DoD promote civilians faster, increase cyber pay Federal News NetworkHouse passes defense bill to raise troop pay and overhaul weapons purchases AP News
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Netflix Is Looking to Borrow Heavily Again to Fund Warner Bros. Deal Bloomberg.comNetflix 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 NetflixThe Apocalyptic Potential of the Netflix-Warner Bros. Deal The AtlanticThe Streaming Wars Are Over The RingerNetflix Launches Massive $82.7 Billion Bid for WBD -- Is NFLX Still a Buy? Yahoo Finance
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Defense Bill Will Make D.C. Skies Less Safe, N.T.S.B. Chair Says The New York Times‘This is shameful': NTSB chair angered by bill relaxing DCA flight restrictions NBC4 WashingtonNational Transportation Safety Board ‘vehemently opposes' NDAA provision thehill.com
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Bumble cofounder Whitney Wolfe Herd will step down as the dating app company's chief executive, the firm announced on November 6th.
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 California will soon have the country's strictest net neutrality protections, thanks to a bill that Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Sunday. The law could serve as a blueprint for other states, set California up for a clash with the federal government -- and possibly draw a lawsuit from major internet providers.
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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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