Economics

Overall, American states are becoming more democratic

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4 months ago

January 2, 2025

The residents of Bristol, Tennessee and Bristol, Virginia share a border, a downtown and even a nascar speedway. But thanks to the quirks of American federalism, the 27,800 Bristolians who live in the Volunteer State, as Tennessee calls itself, reside in what one ranking determines to be America’s least democratic state, while their 16,800 neighbours to the north live in one of the most democratic.

Economics

Checks and Balance newsletter: Why do people join the Trump administration?

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21 hours ago

May 3, 2025

Business Finance News

Checks and Balance newsletter: Why do people join the Trump administration?

Economics

The judge losing his patience with the Trump administration

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2 days ago

May 2, 2025

Business Finance News

DONALD TRUMP likes picking fights with judges. In 2016 Mr Trump said a judge’s Mexican heritage rendered him incapable of fairly adjudicating fraud cases against Trump University, a for-profit institution that closed in 2011. Two years later the president condemned a ruling against his immigration policies as a “disgrace”. Lawsuits against him during the Biden years—including one for conspiring to steal the 2020 election—spurred many attacks.

Economics

Jobs report April 2025:

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2 days ago

May 2, 2025

Business Finance News

Job growth was stronger than expected in April despite worries over the impact of President Donald Trump’s blanket tariffs against U.S. trading partners.

Nonfarm payrolls increased a seasonally adjusted 177,000 for the month, slightly below the downwardly revised 185,000 in March but above the Dow Jones estimate for 133,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

The unemployment rate, however, held at 4.2%, as expected., indicating that the labor market is holding relatively stable.

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