AFP via Getty Images As President Donald Trump looks to fill the Supreme Court seatleft open by the death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he and other Republicans want to secure a reliable conservative majority on the nation’s highest court for many years to come. They have tried to do this in …
Read More »Retire Better: Trump’s election year gamble: Messing with Social Security and Medicare
Wow. With less than three months to go in an election year, President Trump, clearly trailing in the polls, has touched the so-called “third rail” of American politics: Entitlements. Reviving an idea that he backed away from only a few weeks ago, he said recently that he wanted to eliminate …
Read More »Here’s what Trump’s payroll-tax deferral could mean for your paycheck
Workers shouldn’t be waiting for a windfall in their upcoming paychecks, tax-policy experts said Monday as they digested news of President Donald Trump’s executive order deferring payroll taxes. The order might not bump up take-home money all that much per paycheck — and that’s assuming employers even pause the tax …
Read More »Trump’s stimulus orders don’t seem to be feasible or legal, experts say
President Donald Trump’s executive order and memorandums to provide relief during the coronavirus pandemic don’t seem feasible or legal, experts said Saturday. Trump made an end run around Congressional Democrats with an executive order and three memoranda aimed at boosting the economy, but analysts said the wording of the orders …
Read More »Twitter adds fact-check warning label to Trump’s tweets for first time
Twitter Inc. marked tweets by President Donald Trump with a fact-check warning label for the first time Tuesday, after the president falsely claimed mail-in ballots are “substantially fraudulent.” “These tweets contain potentially misleading information about voting processes and have been labeled to provide additional context around mail-in ballots,” a Twitter …
Read More »Seven senators join Iowa Republican Grassley in bipartisan demand for full story of Trump’s firing of intelligence-community watchdog
Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Iowa Republican, led a bipartisan group of senators in sending a letter to the White House late Wednesday seeking a more comprehensive explanation of President Donald Trump’s firing last week of the inspector-general of the intelligence community. Michael Atkinson, the inspector-general, was instrumental in Trump’s impeachment …
Read More »Investors trust Trump’s two ‘magic words,’ and now it’s time to nibble on stocks
Investing and trading are about making money, and you should never let your political opinions get in the way. Irrespective of what you think of President Trump, Wall Street trusts him. How does this affect you? Let’s explore with the help of two charts. Please click here for an annotated …
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