President Biden’s plans to reshape the Federal Reserve suffered a setback on Tuesday as Republicans delayed a key vote on his five nominees for its Board of Governors.Republicans did not […]
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Back to news homeBrandon Just Wants to Drive His Racecar
My colleague, the columnist John McWhorter, a trained linguist, noted in a recent essay that the catchphrase was an American instance of a euphemistic language practice known in South Africa […]
Republicans Who Assailed Biden’s Stimulus Bill Are Embracing the Money
“It’s like the python that ate the rat,” Brad Whitehead, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, said of the struggle to shepherd so much federal money […]
Now in Your Inbox: Political Misinformation
A few weeks ago, Representative Dan Crenshaw, a Texas Republican, falsely claimed that the centerpiece of President Biden’s domestic agenda, a $1.75 trillion bill to battle climate change and extend […]
How Bank Regulators Are Trying to Oust a Trump Holdover
Then came the fireworks. The FDIC’s public affairs office, which Ms. McWilliams controls, released a statement:“Earlier today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) posted on its website a document, purportedly […]
Lawmakers See Path to Rein In Tech, but It Isn’t Smooth
WASHINGTON — “Facebook and Big Tech are facing a Big Tobacco moment,” Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, said this week when a whistle-blower testified about how the social media […]
$1 Trillion Infrastructure Deal Scales Senate Hurdle With Bipartisan Vote
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted on Wednesday to take up a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that would make far-reaching investments in the nation’s public works system, as Republicans joined […]
Gas Price Increase Poses Challenge to U.S. Economy
Policymakers at the Federal Reserve have said they expect the increase in inflation to be short-lived, and they are unlikely to change that view based on an increase in energy […]
ProPublica Report Has Congress Rethinking How to Tax Superrich
WASHINGTON — A jaw-dropping report by ProPublica detailing how America’s richest men avoided paying taxes has intensified interest in Congress, even among some Republicans, in changing the tax code to […]
Federal Unemployment Aid Is Now a Political Lightning Rod
Of the more than four million people whose jobless benefits are going to be cut off in the next few weeks, Bre Starr will be among the first.That’s because Ms. […]