An extension allowing U.S. companies to keep doing business with Huawei, the blacklisted Chinese tech giant, is about to expire. Firms say the uncertainty is hurting their businesses.
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In 2016, David Cameron held a referendum on whether the U.K. should stay in the European Union. A longtime Euroskeptic, he nevertheless led the Remain campaign. So what did Cameron really want? We ask him that and much more — including why he left office as soon as his side lost and what he’d do differently if given another chance. (Hint: not much.)
Norbert Pickett is the owner of Cannabliss, a new medical marijuana dispensary in Ward 7 — and only the second east of the Anacostia River.
“Unbeknownst to Leonard and without his consent, Nike filed an application for copyright registration of his logo and falsely represented in the application that Nike had authored the logo."
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The 31-year-old Barbadian singer has partnered with the historic LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton fashion house, becoming the first woman of color to have a label under LVMH and the first woman to start an original brand for the world's largest luxury group.
Robert Reich debunks 12 misconceptions about tax policy in America.
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Capitalists are already using the state to reshape our cities — we need to wield it in a radically different way to serve the interests of working people.
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The financial crisis of 2008 altered so many lives: Millions of people lost their homes, their jobs and their savings. It set off a recession that collectively destroyed over $30 trillion of the world’s wealth. And though the crisis grew out of big banks’ handling of mortgage-backed securities, no Wall Street executive went to jail for it. So what happened?
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In the American Dream sweepstakes, Andrew Yang was a pretty big winner. But for every winner, he came to realize, there are thousands upon thousands of losers — a “war on normal people,” he calls it. Here’s what he plans to do about it.
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There is a common misunderstanding about how tax brackets work in the US, and it’s causing us to have uninformed debates about taxes.
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In 1973, Yvon Chouinard started the company to make climbing gear he couldn't find elsewhere. Over decades of growth, he has implemented a unique philosophy about business, leadership and profit.
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The U.S. misunderstood not only how China would respond to economic growth, but how the U.S. would respond to China
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Many in the U.S. believed capitalism would never work without political freedom. Then China began to rise.
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China’s economy now stands as an alternate narrative to Western ideals. And yet the decisions the Communist Party made to secure its economic future have led Beijing to its biggest test since Tiananmen Square.
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The company was offered more than $2 billion in tax incentives ... Atlantic staff writer Derek Thompson joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss his latest story, "Amazon's HQ2 spectacle isn’t just shameful—it should be illegal."
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"Regarding Amazon's wage hike to $15 an hour, do you believe that Bernie Sanders was the main cause of Jeff Bezos' decision to do that?" Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discuss this issue.
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“If your reaction was “Wow, Walmart controls A LOT of the country,” you’d be right. This map shows the largest private employer in every state in the U.S., and Walmart is tops in an incredible 22 states … “
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Elizabeth White has been on the edge of the financial cliff for years … In her self-published book "Fifty-Five, Unemployed, and Faking Normal" she painfully chronicles the crash of a flourishing career and upper-middle class lifestyle -- and she's not alone.
Under capitalism, housing provision is based on what will make developers, lenders, and landlords rich — not what average people need to survive. That’s why we’ll never get decent, affordable housing for everyone under the free market.
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