America's 1% has taken $50 trillion from the bottom 90% economics Article published Sep 14 2020 31 votes
As US shopping habits change, ports and cargo carriers struggle to keep pace Article 1720 words 7 votes
All a gig-economy pioneer had to do was “politely disagree” it was violating US Federal law and the Labor Department walked away business Article 2058 words 8 votes
Despite the pandemic, venture capital investments in US-based companies set records in 2020, with almost $130B raised and 318 mega-rounds worth $100M or more Article 240 words 4 votes
Visa and Plaid abandon merger after US Justice Department Antitrust Division’s suit to block business Article 419 words 10 votes
Democratic Sen. Manchin casts doubts on $2,000 direct payments, potentially jeopardizing passage Article 433 words, published Jan 8 2021 5 votes
US passes ‘historic’ anti-corruption law that effectively bans anonymous shell companies business Article 564 words 26 votes
Why 'accidental Americans' are desperate to give up their US citizenship banking Article published Dec 23 2020 10 votes
In America, Christmas trees are a multibillion-dollar business. But who’s making the money? economics Article 1780 words, published Dec 5 2020 12 votes
The fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System economics.macro Article 15 875 words, published Dec 6 2020 11 votes
The stock market is less disconnected from the “real economy” than you think Article 1318 words 7 votes
FedEx and UPS hit companies with unexpected holiday shipping limits business Article 978 words 9 votes
What happened in the US Treasury market in March 2020? Take 1 of 4. economics Article 1865 words 6 votes
How a $17 billion bailout fund intended for Boeing ended up in very different hands business Article 2278 words 4 votes
AMC’s revenue plummets by more than ninety percent as theaters remain empty business Article 1059 words 15 votes
Big banks entrusted money to GardaWorld. It secretly lost track of millions. banking Article 4582 words 7 votes
Wisconsin denies Foxconn tax subsidies after contract negotiations fail business Article 1382 words 12 votes
Lengthy era of rock-bottom interest rates leaving its mark on US economy economics Article 1808 words 10 votes
The disruption con: Why Big Tech’s favourite buzzword is nonsense economics Article 2994 words, published Sep 24 2020 6 votes
The FinCen Files: Thousands of secret suspicious activity reports offer a picture of corruption and complicity - and how the government lets it flourish Article 3948 words 11 votes
RAND study uncovers massive income shift to the top 1% - The median worker should be making as much as $102,000 annually—if some $2.5 trillion wasn’t being “reverse distributed” every year economics Article 1424 words 33 votes
Doesn’t feel like a recession? You should be paying more in taxes economics Article 1247 words, published Sep 3 2020 12 votes
LVMH backs out of $16.2 billion acquisition of Tiffany, citing US threats of tariffs on French goods. Tiffany has filed a lawsuit to enforce the agreement business Article 126 words 6 votes
More than half of San Francisco storefronts closed due to pandemic business Article 444 words 8 votes
Major shakeup for the Dow Jones Industrial Average index in the US: three new stocks join Article 11 votes
Vanguard is outsourcing recordkeeping work, along with 1,300 of its workforce, to Infosys business Article 841 words 11 votes
The recession is over for the rich, but the working class is far from recovered economics Article 2019 words 7 votes
A risky bet by America’s mall owners: Plucking retailers out of bankruptcy to salvage a pandemic-hit industry business Article 1264 words 7 votes
Hawaii grapples with Great Depression-level unemployment as tourism plummets Article 3423 words 21 votes
You are now leaving FantasyLand: The losses will be taken by somebody economics Article 892 words 4 votes
Searchable database of the 661,218 companies who received over $150,000 in forgivable SBA PPP loans business Article 750 words 7 votes
The most recent iteration of a widespread government imposter scam has bilked thousands of Americans out of hundreds of millions of dollars Article 2098 words, published Jul 5 2020 4 votes
Japanese auto companies triple Mexican pay rather than move to US business Article 552 words, published Jun 28 2020 10 votes