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President Trump has become a major booster of digital currency. The Planet Money team went to look into how the president's crypto enthusiasm plays out inside the industry.
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NPR speaks with David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, about Trump's attacks on the Fed chair for not moving to cut interest rates.
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President Trump has announced — but postponed the effective date for — higher tariffs once again. Here's what to know about the latest on his tariff policy.
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Electronics and back-to-school supplies are expected to top many shoppers' lists.
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Katie Wagner, the supply chain director of an Iowa-based computer hardware maker, talks about how her company expects their bottom line to be hurt if the U.S. follows through on threats to impose retaliatory tariffs on trading partners starting Aug. 1.
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The Congressional Budget Office has recently come under fire from both Democrats and Republicans for its budgetary analysis of President Trump's domestic policy law.
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President Trump's threatened to impose retaliatory tariffs on Aug. 1 if nations haven't negotiated trade deals by then.
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The Planet Money newsletter rounds up some new economics studies.
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Government statistics show the number of people taking second jobs is near highs last seen during the Great Recession.
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The recently passed plan will benefit middle-class and wealthy folks more than low-income families.
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The dollar has just posted its worst first-half of a year since 1973. And now investors wonder — is it a sign that America is losing its financial standing?
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President Trump says his administration will start sending letters out to countries this week notifying them of new tariff rates if they don't have a deal with the U.S. before a new Aug. 1 deadline.