Tax credits, school choice and 'neovouchers': What you need to know
Apr 16, 2017 14:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
As Republican lawmakers craft a tax reform bill, theres speculation on the import taxes, value-added taxes and tax cuts it may usher in. Meanwhile, its likely that the bill will also include a major education policy...
Anti-Trump backlash at US by-elections
Apr 12, 2017 14:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Today, a by-election was held in Kansas fourth Congressional District (CD) for election to the US House. This CD is very conservative, and voted for Donald Trump by 60-33 against Hillary Clinton at the 2016 election. At...
San Francisco is using a Montana sheriff's playbook to sue Trump on sanctuary cities
Apr 11, 2017 05:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law
San Francisco is suing over President Donald Trumps executive order against sanctuary cities. A federal court hearing is set for April 14, and a decision is expected soon after. The order, signed in January, defined...
New anti-protest laws are incompatible with American democracy
Apr 08, 2017 05:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Civil protest is a crucial tenet of any free democracy and in the US its protected by the Constitutions first amendment. But a wave of new anti-protest laws may infringe on this hard-won constitutional right one that...
It was Big Tobacco, not Trump, that wrote the post-truth rule book
Apr 07, 2017 08:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
(Corrected typo on seventh paragraph) After two chaotic months as president, Donald Trump is widely credited with rewriting the political rule book. We are witnessing Trumps new era of post-fact politics, where...
US under Trump Series: Trump-Xi meeting would determine inflation or deflation for global economy
Apr 06, 2017 11:31 am UTC| Commentary Economy
The US President Donald Trump is set to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping today and they will hold meetings over the next two days in President Trumps Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. The future of the global economy...
US under Trump Series: Growth in business sales very encouraging
Apr 04, 2017 11:27 am UTC| Commentary Economy
What drives stocks (other than cheap funding from FED), is their earnings, some which investors get returned in form of dividends and buybacks, rest of which goes into the books as reserves. And what drives earnings higher...
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