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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a powerful agency policing predatory or unfair practices. Trump hobbled it. But a court ruling allows Biden to appoint a new sheriff at the bureau.
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Pent-up demand from households that have been cooped up over the last eight months could drive a spending boom in the spring, providing a big boost to the economy.
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The U.S. is expected to report record-setting economic growth in the most recent quarter. But that won't repair all of the damage done during the spectacular downturn three months earlier.
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College enrollment continues to decline, according to data released Monday. Small colleges have been forced to close; others are getting creative when it comes to finding and keeping students.
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The oil company said it will sell an unspecified number of shares on a Saudi Arabian exchange. Its valuation could be $1.5 trillion, and it may be the world's biggest IPO.
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Investors feared that the country could default on its $57 billion IMF loan if President Mauricio Macri loses October elections to his leftist rival.
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It's possible for the world to keep global warming from reaching a crisis point in the next 20 to 30 years -- or sooner -- but it would take an effort…
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Trade tensions have reached a boiling point with tit-for-tat tariffs between the U.S. and China. But even before these levies went into effect other tariffs were having a big impact on U.S. companies.
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Former Wall Street executive Gary Cohn is leaving his White House job. Cohn led the successful White House push for tax cuts last year, but he lost an internal battle over steel and aluminum tariffs.
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The Swedish Academy said it was awarding Thaler the prize in economics for his pioneering work in incorporating "psychologically realistic assumptions into analyses of economic decision-making."
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Starting in September, the three main credit agencies will wait 180 days before including medical debt on a credit report, giving consumers time to resolve disputes with insurers.
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More than 500 Latin American officials gathered downtown this week for the annual Inter-American Conference of Mayors and Local Authorities. The…