That time when the US government wanted Americans to use one dollar coins Video 6:13, published Aug 29 2019 6 votes
Varo Money receives FDIC approval, enabling it to become America's first standalone national digital bank banking Article 363 words 5 votes
TurboTax and others charged at least fourteen million Americans for tax prep that should have been free, audit finds Article 1046 words 19 votes
US FTC files suit to block $1.37 billion acquisition of shaving company Harry’s by Edgewell (owner of Schick) business Article 490 words 7 votes
US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross said in an interview on Thursday that the coronavirus outbreak could bring back jobs to America economics Article 507 words 8 votes
US Congressional Budget Office annual report projects continued economic growth, but federal deficits and debts reaching levels not seen since just after World War II Article 1011 words 8 votes
Breach in payment-processing systems at Wawa convenience stores may have compromised over thirty million cards Article 1409 words 5 votes
How stock buybacks made US CEOs and shareholders really rich business Video 10:08, published Oct 11 2019 10 votes
For years, Microsoft has moved billions in profits to Puerto Rico to avoid taxes. When the IRS pushed it to pay, Microsoft aggressively fought back in court, lobbied Congress and changed the law business Article 7164 words 21 votes
The monopolization of the American market and how it happened economics Video 11:04, published May 6 2018 8 votes
New York dangled extra incentives in initial bid to lure Amazon HQ2 business Article 92 words 6 votes
California's new employment law is starting to crush freelancers business Article 1592 words, published Dec 11 2019 5 votes
Residents in 24 states and Washington, D.C. will see a minimum wage increase in 2020. The increases range from $0.10 per hour—in Florida—to $1.50 per hour. Article 1755 words 7 votes
Inside TurboTax’s twenty-year fight to stop Americans from filing their taxes for free Article 7022 words 16 votes
Running the numbers to figure out Amazon's market share: it has about 35% of US ecommerce, but closer to 6% of addressable retail overall business Article 944 words, published Nov 22 2019 5 votes
Examination of Fortune 500 companies' 2018 filings shows that many paid a low effective federal tax rate in 2018, including 91 that paid no federal taxes at all business Article 14 244 words 9 votes
Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths business Article 854 words 7 votes
Musk, Bloomberg, Bezos: America's aristocracy of tech robber barons lives by its own rules Article 853 words 12 votes
FTC settlement with for-profit University of Phoenix over deceptive advertising will require them to cancel $141M in student debt and pay $50M to former students Article 955 words 14 votes
Paul A. Volcker, Fed Chairman who helped shape American economic policy for decades, notably by leading the Federal Reserve’s campaign to subdue inflation in the 1970s and 1980s, is dead at 92 economics Article 4178 words 4 votes
For the first time in US history, a decade will pass without the country falling into a recession economics.macro Article 724 words 13 votes
Sweden's telecoms giant Ericsson has agreed to pay more than $1bn to resolve allegations of bribery, the US Department of Justice has announced business Article 317 words 4 votes
US SEC rejects NYSE plan to allow companies to raise capital during direct listings Article 63 words 6 votes
The new debtor's prisons: High-interest loan companies are using Utah’s small claims courts to arrest borrowers and take their bail money Article 5416 words 15 votes
US Trade Representative investigation concludes that France's Digital Services Tax discriminates against US companies, proposes retaliatory tariffs of up to 100% on French products Article 416 words 7 votes
Aurelius Capital v. Puerto Rico: How a hedge fund’s efforts to take the island territory to the cleaners wound up before the Supreme Court - with Puerto Ricans arguing in the hedge fund’s favor Article 3740 words 4 votes
Pre-Thanksgiving Merger Monday sees over $60 billion in announced deals business Article 257 words 7 votes
The flight that sent Boeing off course: A company once driven by engineers became driven by finance business Article 1671 words 6 votes
The Stanford Empire: The university is more than a prestigious place to get a degree, they're also Silicon Valley's largest land owner Article 5158 words 7 votes
Why Americans hate taxes, and why some people want them to Article 1249 words, published Aug 5 2019 12 votes