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Nov 20 2013
News
Solid Oct. Retail Sales Lift Hopes for US Economy
An increase in shopping last month during the partial government shutdown suggests that the U.S. economy may be more resilient than some have feared.
Retail sales rose 0.4 percent in October, the Commerce Department said Wednesday, after being flat the previous month. The increase showed that many consumers remain willing to spend as the all-important holiday shopping season nears.
ABC News (Online)Mar 30 2019
News
White House Blames Fed for Slowing Economic Growth
President Trump and his top economic adviser criticized the Federal Reserve’s recent interest rate increases again on Friday, blaming the central bank for hindering economic growth while denying any suggestion of a looming slowdown. Just one day after the Commerce Department said the economy slowed more sharply at the end of last year than previously reported, Mr. Trump blamed the Fed for “
New York Times (News)Jul 05 2019
Opinion
How to Put Citizenship Back in the Census
The Trump administration said Wednesday it will attempt to add a citizenship question on the 2020 census while complying with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Department of Commerce v. New York. Five justices held that the Census Act allows the question, but a separate five-justice majority found the rulemaking that added the question was procedurally deficient. There is a way forward. The
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Nov 10 2020
News
Will Supreme Court Invalidate Obamacare A Decade After It Was Enacted?
Obamacare is back before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, with opponents challenging it for a third time. The first attempts to derail the law failed in the high court by votes of 5-to-4 and 6-to-3. But the makeup of the court is very different now, with three justices appointed by President Trump – among them new Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Before her nomination, Barrett consistently
NPR (Online News)Apr 27 2015
News
Grass grows greener: Cannabis Business Summit will lobby Capitol Hill, hear from Grover Norquist
“The grass grows greener - and greener. The Cannabis Business Summit has come to the nation’s capital with a hefty agenda and intentions to lobby Congress. The three-day event has been organized by the Denver-based National Cannibis Industry Association, which bills the event as “where commerce meets a revolution.”
The old hippies of yore would surely be amazed: The group plans an early
Washington TimesJun 28 2012
News
Supreme Court Health Care Decision: Individual Mandate Survives
The individual health insurance mandate is constitutional, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday, upholding the central provision of President Barack Obama's signature Affordable Care Act.
The controlling opinion, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, upheld the mandate as a tax, although concluded it was not valid as an exercise of Congress' commerce clause power. Justices Ruth Bader
HuffPostOct 29 2020
News
US economy grew a record 33.1% annual rate last quarter but the pandemic remains an enormous threat
The US economy in the summer recovered much of the historically enormous ground it lost in the spring, expanding at the fastest rate on record in the third quarter, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.
Still, the recovery remains incomplete. The economic crisis that Covid-19 brought on is far from over, and the pandemic threatens to plunge the American economy into turmoil again
CNN DigitalOct 28 2020
News
Facebook, Google, Twitter CEOs clash with Congress in pre-election showdown
Senate Democrats and Republicans grilled the chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter on Wednesday at a highly partisan, wide-ranging review of their content-moderation practices less than a week before Election Day.
Lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee are convening the gathering chiefly to discuss a controversial, decades-old law known as Section 230 that spares social
Washington PostMar 29 2021
News
Biden’s China Challenge: Counter Its Perception of American Decline
U.S. relations with China are a minefield of potentially explosive problems, yet the biggest risk is a subtle one: the danger that China overestimates the decline of U.S. power and acts accordingly.
If China is as convinced as its representatives and media organizations proclaim, that the U.S. and the entire Western liberal order are in the early stages of a long-term decline, an
Wall Street Journal (News)Oct 10 2015
News
House votes to lift 40-year-old ban on US crude oil exports
The House overwhelmingly approved a bill Friday that would lift the 40-year-old ban on exporting U.S. crude oil, a restriction that critics say hurts job creation and U.S. national security.
The House approved the bill on a bipartisan 261-159 vote. However, the White House has threatened to veto the bill should it make its way to the president’s desk, calling it unnecessary and arguing
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