Fed's tools, goals under the microscope as US House task force gets underway
A new task force in the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday began an examination of the Federal ...
No Bidders, No Safety Net: Is Fed's Liquidity Lifeline Drying Up? Plus, ETFs To Watch
If yields keep dropping, bond prices will rise. And if liquidity crunch fears escalate, defensive sectors could shine.
Interest Rate Standoff Is Fueled By Tariffs, Immigration And Elon Musk
At the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 20, the Tesla titan floated auditing the Fed’s monetary decisions ...
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Judge won't block Musk and DOGE from accessing data, making cuts at 7 federal agencies
Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday declined to stop Elon Musk and the White House's Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, from accessing data systems at seven federal agencies ...
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Top federal agency exposed for spending billions on migrants in a single year
The Biden administration spent tens of billions of dollars on grants to migrants and refugees through one of its government agencies, including over $10 billion in just one year, according to a ...
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Robert B. Reich: Will the Supreme Court constrain the wild Trump?
It is well to remind ourselves that Monday was Presidents Day, not Dictators Day. Of all the things the framers of the Constitution worried about, their biggest worry was that a president would ...
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What's open and closed on Presidents Day 2025? Here's which services to expect on the federal holiday.
George Washington's birthday, the state and federal holiday commonly known as Presidents Day, falls this year on Feb. 17, 2025. With regular U.S. mail service suspended and the post office ...
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Judge to rule swiftly on effort to block DOGE from assessing data and firing federal employees
We want to weed out the corruption. That's the promise from President Donald Trump as his new Department of Government Efficiency slashes staff and spending. The effort led by billionaire Elon ...
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Fed Governors Say No More Rate Cuts Until Inflation Falls
Michelle Bowman and Christopher Waller, members of the Federal Reserve's board of governors, gave separate speeches Monday during which they said that slow progress on getting inflation down to ...
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Polymarket bets on Fort Knox audit as reserve debate heats up
Polymarket, a cryptocurrency-based prediction market platform, has listed bets on whether Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will audit the US gold reserves at Fort Knox ...
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Judge Chutkan rejects call from Democratic AGs for temporary restraining order blocking DOGE’s access to federal data
A federal judge declined on Tuesday to temporarily block Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency from accessing federal data systems at a slew of executive branch agencies.
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$A set to soar if RBA holds fire on rates
The Australian dollar is already trading at a two-month high of US63.72¢ thanks to soft US economic data raising hopes of further interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. On Friday, US retail ...