President Trump Backs Megadonor Foster Friess for Wyoming Governor
Republican mega-donor Foster Friess at the 40th Annual Conservative Political Action Conference.Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Foster Friess, the Republican megadonor running for governor in Wyoming, has President Trump’s “complete and total Endorsement,” according to a tweet sent early Tuesday as polls opened in the state.…
Even Trump’s EPA Admits His Power Plan Will Kill Thousands of Americans
Zhou Changguo/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When President Barack Obama unveiled the Clean Power Plan in the East Room of the White House three years ago, he called it “the single most important step America has ever taken in the fight against global climate change.” Today, that plan, which would…
Michael Cohen to Plead Guilty to Criminal Charges
Go Nakamura/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and longtime fixer, has agreed to plead guilty to charges, multiple news outlets reported Tuesday. He is scheduled to appear before a federal courtroom in Manhattan later this afternoon. Breaking News: Michael Cohen, President Trump’s…
Bernie’s “Medicare For All” Plan Would Cut Physician Payments About 10 Percent
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Charles Blahous of the Mercatus Center recently produced an analysis of Bernie Sanders’ Medicare For All Plan that’s generated an awful lot of confusion. In this post, I’m going to do my best to get the numbers right in order to get everyone on the…
Sen. Susan Collins Says Brett Kavanaugh Believes the Right to Abortion is Settled Law
Tom Williams/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brett Kavanaugh believes that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide, is “settled law,” Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) told reporters outside her office on Tuesday. Collins made the statement after a highly-anticipated meeting with Kavanaugh, who is President Trump’s…
Chinese Investors Are Discovering the Joys of Structured Products
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The good old days are back. In China, anyway: Structured deposits offer higher returns than regular savings accounts and are tied to bets on assets from currencies to gold. They have been around for years, but the sums outstanding have soared recently. In July they…