Moving Cash Is Faster Than Ever. It Makes Bank Runs Hard To Stop.
Top monetary officials including Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen say things have stabilized in the two weeks since panicked depositors rapidly withdrew their mo...
23 Maalis 202316min
TikTok CEO Heads To The Hill As Congress Mulls A Total Ban
TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew is set to address the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday and is expected to tout the company's billion-dollar restructuring effort to build a firewall ...
22 Maalis 202314min
Trump Says He'll Be Arrested, Invites Protest, Derails GOP Confab
The former president's announced on social media that he'd soon be arrested, apparently referring to an ongoing state investigation in New York over his hush money payments to adult film actor Stormy ...
21 Maalis 202313min
US Still Has Lessons To Learn From Its Misguided War In Iraq
It's been twenty years since the U.S. launched a war in Iraq — a conflict justified by faulty intelligence. More than 4000 Americans died along with tens of thousands of Iraqis. The war undermined Ame...
20 Maalis 202313min
Roundup: Repealing Iraq War Approval; SCOTUS Has No Ethics Code
A bill ending Iraq war authorizations has cleared a procedural hurdle in the Senate and is expected to be taken up by the chamber for a final vote next week, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of th...
17 Maalis 202322min
Abortion Access Could Be Limited Further By Mifepristone Case
Was the FDA wrong to approve a drug that's used in nearly all medication abortions in the U.S. — and should the drug, mifepristone, be taken off the market? Those questions were argued in court Wednes...
16 Maalis 202313min
US Pulls Allies Closer As Its Drone Downed In Brush With Russia
The U.S. and the United Kingdom will provide nuclear-powered submarine technology to Australia as part of a defense deal between the two nations. And, a U.S. drone crashed near the Black Sea after an ...
15 Maalis 202314min
Donald Trump Likely To Be Charged Over Porn Star Hush Money
Former President Donald Trump has been invited to testify before a New York City grand jury — a move that is widely understood to mean Trump could soon face criminal charges related to his financial d...
14 Maalis 202312min
