The Trump era saw countless news stories quoting unnamed officials speaking disapprovingly of their boss “on the condition of anonymity.” Because of record-level inflation that will persist through th...
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Ginni Thomas Reportedly Urged Arizona Lawmakers To Ignore Biden’s Victory And Adopt ‘Clean Slate Of Electors’
Topline Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressured two Arizona lawmakers in emails to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the state in the 2020 presidential election by ask...
Biden’s pick for Fed vice chair for supervision calls for congressional action on stablecoins
Michael Barr, a law professor and former advisory board member of Ripple Labs who is United States President Joe Biden’s pick for vice chair for supervision at the Federal Reserve, called for U.S. law...
Republicans Are Warming To Biden’s Handling Of Ukraine Crisis, Poll Finds
Topline Though public opinion on the Biden Administration’s response to the war in Ukraine remains divided along party lines, Republican disapproval has fallen by 12 percentage points in the past two ...
Starbucks criticizes Biden’s visit with union leaders, requests White House meeting
US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on economic growth, jobs, and deficit reduction in the Roosevelt Room on Wednesday May 4, 2022. Demetrius Freeman | The Washington Post | Getty Images Starbucks...
Who Is Karine Jean-Pierre, Biden’s Next Press Secretary?
Topline White House communications official Karine Jean-Pierre is set to make dual history next week when she becomes the first Black and openly LGBTQ person to serve as White House press secretary...
Oil Prices Top $111 As Biden’s SPR Buyback Plan Leaks
The Biden Administration will purchase 60 million barrels of crude in Q3 in an effort to replace volumes in the U.S. strategic petroleum for the first time in nearly 20 years, CNN reports, after autho...
Biden’s $1.75 Trillion Student-Debt Problem by the Numbers
(Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden is considering forgiving at least $10,000 in student loans per borrower, a promise he made on the campaign trail, through executive action. Most Read from Bloom...
Musk takes aim at Biden’s counter-disinformation board
This article is an on-site version of our #techFT newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox Elon Musk, who has agreed a $44bn takeover of Twitter, has expressed dissat...
How Biden’s Regulations Undermine His Own Infrastructure Plan
President Biden repeatedly proclaims his pride in getting a huge infrastructure bill through Congress with strong bipartisan support. One would think that with his plummeting popularity the President ...
Biden’s New Ukraine Plan Could Be A Good Solution For Others Also
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on U.S. assistance to Ukraine. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Getty Images President Biden’s recent announcement of his Uniting for Ukraine plan to help some of the ...
Will Biden’s Commerce Department Really Punish Solar In Asia?
President Biden touring a solar facility in New Hampshire. Are these panels all made in Asia? Most … [+] likely yes. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) ASSOCIATED PRESS They’re baa-aack. The Commerce Dep...
Federal Workers Can’t Sue Over Biden’s Vaccine Mandate, Appeals Court Says
Topline Federal workers who want to challenge President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate should turn to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), an agency created to protect the rights of federa...
Here are 3 stocks set to benefit from Biden’s bill mandating use of U.S.-made steel
The Biden administration issued guidance to federal agencies requiring materials purchased for projects funded by the infrastructure bill must be produced in the U.S. Companies undertaking projects ut...
Biden’s Revival Of Oil Leasing Program Plays To Mixed Reviews
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 08: U.S. President Joe Biden hands a pen to Secretary of the Interior Deb … [+] Haaland after signing an executive order to expand the areas of three national monu...
Biden’s Thinking On Energy Is Deeply Flawed And Possibly Deadly
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg made telling statements this week that revealed deep flaws in how the Biden Administration views the energy world. At one event Buttigieg said that even if we w...
Appeals Court Restores Biden’s Federal Employee Vaccine Mandate
Topline The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday removed a lower court injunction that halted President Joe Biden’s nationwide Covid-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees, empowering the govern...
Senate Unanimously Passes Russian Oil And Gas Ban After Biden’s Executive Order
Topline The Senate on Thursday passed a bipartisan bill to ban Russian energy imports, building on an executive order signed by President Joe Biden last month and adding to a slew of retaliatory measu...
Biden’s Wasteful SPR Release
Gasoline price increases typically lead to decreased approval ratings for incumbents no matter the … [+] political party. getty President Biden’s release of 180 million barrels, one million per ...
Joe Biden’s ill-considered billionaire tax
As mis-namings go, Joe Biden’s “billionaire minimum income tax”, which he unveiled last week, is 10 times understated. The tax, which would hit Americans with assets of $100mn or more, is the presiden...
Biden’s Wealth Tax Proposal Would Target More Than Billionaires
Text size President Joe Biden’s new budget proposal includes a wealth tax it says would target the top 0.01% of households. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images About the author: Thomas Hoenig is a dist...
Biden’s plan to lower gas prices could take weeks. How to pay less now
Filling up at the pump comes with a hefty dose of sticker shock. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and global supply concerns have sent gas prices to record highs — hitting $6 in some parts of the co...
Biden’s answer to high gas prices is to boost US battery production
President Joe Biden will trigger the Defense Production Act to secure U.S. sources of critical minerals and materials like lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite and manganese that are used to make batteri...
Biden’s New Budget Is A Dangerous Bust!
This segment of What’s Ahead lays out how stunningly unrelated President Biden’s proposed budget is to the real needs of the U.S. economy and how reckless it is for our defense necessities in an ever ...
Biden’s Oil-Relief Plan Seen Backfiring as Drillers Dig In Heels
(Bloomberg) — U.S. President Joe Biden’s plan to tackle record gasoline prices with an unprecedented release of emergency oil reserves may stifle domestic crude drilling just when it’s needed mo...
Why Biden’s billionaire minimum income tax may be a tough sell
Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., talks to reporters in Washington, Nov. 4, 2021. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters President Joe Biden has proposed a new tax on the ultra-wealthy as part of his 2023 federal budget, ...
Biden’s tax proposal seems hostile as it threatens crypto investors –
Applying the tax can be complex because valuation of several assets can be subjective Unclear whether unrealized losses would be taken into account Experts opined that this plan will not pass Congres...
Biden’s Fed picks are likely headed to Senate vote after partisan delay
The United States Senate will vote on President Joe Biden’s nominations to the Federal Reserve after delays instigated by Republican lawmakers. In a 50–49 vote on Tuesday, the Senate moved economist L...
Opinion: This plan to tax the ultrarich is much simpler and better than Biden’s idea
President Joe Biden and Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) have proposed different ways to tax unrealized capital gains every year. Their shared goal is understandable, with trillions of ...