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Millennials Are Very Financially Trustworthy

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The St. Louis Fed recently republished a note from last November about credit card delinquency. First, they note that millennials have the highest rate of delinquency. But then they make the obvious point that this is because millennials are younger than other generations, and young…

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Continue to Use Unofficial Communications for Government Business

ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. House Democrats are demanding further details after a lawyer for Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump confirmed that Kushner, a senior White House adviser and the president’s son-in-law, relies on unofficial communications, such as the encrypted messaging service WhatsApp, to carry out government business. Abbe Lowell,…

Fed Projects Growth of 2.1% This Year

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here is the Federal Reserve’s latest projection for economic growth over the rest of Donald Trump’s presidency: Trump is the only human being on the planet who believes that growth will be over 3 percent this year. It’s true that his staffers are playing along,…

The Hidden Catastrophe of the Midwest’s Floods

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After “bomb cyclone” storms hit the Midwest last week, large swaths of Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri farmland are stricken with floods. “Baby calves were swept into freezing floodwaters, washing up dead along the banks of swollen rivers,” the New York Times reported from the ground in…