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2024-10-23

Market reckoning on spending is coming after election

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Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones is raising alarms about the U.S. government’s current fiscal deficit and the increased spending promised by both presidential candidates, saying the bond market may force the government’s hand after the election in addressing it. “We are going to be broke really quickly unless we get serious about dealing with our spending issues,”…

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2024-10-20

More Trump sealed files released in Jack Smith Jan. 6 election case

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a “Save America Rally” near the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Bloomberg | Getty Images A federal judge on Friday ordered the release of more than 1,800 pages of documents filed by special counsel Jack Smith in the criminal election interference case against former President Donald Trump….

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2024-10-09

Economic tailwinds boost Kamala Harris in election homestretch, economists say

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The surprisingly positive jobs report Friday has reinforced growing optimism about the U.S. economy, less than a month before the end of an extremely close presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, and while voters say the economy is a top priority. Nonfarm payrolls added 254,000 jobs in September, while the unemployment rate fell…

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2024-09-29

Shigeru Ishiba wins LDP election, set to become Japan’s next prime minister

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Shigeru Ishiba, Japan’s former defense minister, delivers his campaign speech for the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) presidential election in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Former defense minister Shigeru Ishiba has won his fifth bid to become the leader of Japan’s ruling party on Friday, lining him up to become the country’s…

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2024-08-04

Kamala Harris raised $310 million for Trump election contest

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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event in Atlanta on July 30, 2024. Elijah Nouvelage | Afp | Getty Images The presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday that its political operation raised $310 million in July, dwarfing the tally raised for the Republican nominee Donald Trump in the same month. Harris’ team raised the…

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