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Rick Newman is a columnist for Yahoo Finance, offering insightful, provocative takes on many of the biggest stories of our time. He was previously Chief Business Correspondent, and before that Pentagon correspondent, for U.S. News & World Report. He's also the author of four books, including Rebounders: How Winners Pivot from Setback to Success.
Yahoo FinanceThis week in Bidenomics: Trolling the doomsayers
Forecasters think the economy is slowing sharply. Biden thinks everything looks great.
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How Facebook and Twitter are punking Trump
Meta's offer to let Trump back on Facebook and Instagram is a clever move that puts Trump in a very uncomfortable corner.
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Everybody calm down about egg prices
Egg prices are way up. But the pain borne by consumers is eggzagerated.
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This week in Bidenomics: Slowdown!
Tons of new data points to a slowing economy. That's great news.
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7 surprises from a visit to Cuba
Cuba seems ready to do business with the United States. We're the ones who aren't sure.
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3 things to know about the debt-ceiling farce
The matter always gets resolved, but Congress can cause real damage to financial markets.
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This week in Bidenomics: Lucky we don’t need Congress right now
House Republicans are preventing Congress from functioning. For now, the economy doesn't need any government help.
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6 things that will get cheaper in 2023
Buyers of cars, appliances, and even homes will eventually get a break, as inflations pressures from 2022 unwind in '23.
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The leadership secrets of rabid Republicans
Absolutism over pragmatism. Chaos over efficiency. This is what Republicans deliver when they're in charge.
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Why Trump didn’t want you to see his tax returns
The self-described business genius seems to declare business losses year after year.
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This week in Bidenomics: It was a pretty good year
The last 12 months were scary, but they may have set the stage for a prosperous end to 2023.
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11 predictions for 2023—from Yahoo Finance readers
We asked the Yahoo Finance community to tell us what might happen in 2023. You told us to watch 3-D printed houses, shipping stocks, used-car prices—and the metaverse.
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This week in Bidenomics: Too much holiday cheer
Good news is bad news and vice versa. Maybe just tune the whole thing out.
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Donald Trump is America's poorest billionaire
Former President Donald Trump loses vast amounts of money. Yet he lives a gilded lifestyle and never runs short of the cash needed to pay lawyers perpetually defending him against charges large and small. How does he do it? We're gradually finding out.
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This week in Bidenomics: The killjoy Fed
Everybody but the Federal Reserve thinks inflation is improving substantially. But its vote is the only one that matters.
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Billions for Ukraine is the deal of the century
Republicans think more military aid for Ukraine might be "wasteful." They've got it exactly backward.
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Thank China for plunging gasoline prices
The single-biggest reason for falling oil and gas prices is China’s baffling COVID lockdowns.
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Carvana: Yahoo Finance's Worst Company of the Year
The online car-buying site could be a great business, if not for overexpansion and a badly timed acquisition.
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This week in Bidenomics: Landing softly
Inflation is moderating, employment remains strong. and Biden is ending 2022 on an upswing.