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Six months into the Iran war, the global economy has pulled off a ‘Mission Impossible’ scene, and the Trump family is among the winners

The direst predictions haven’t come true even if no corner of the world's economy has been untouched.

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Teen summer employment is headed for its worst year since 1948

Challenger, Gray & Christmas projects record-low teen hiring this summer as inflation, cautious employers, and AI squeeze out entry-level jobs.

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‘I paid the price’: Workers share their Scott Pelley moments of boss talkback — and what it cost them

One asked her boss "are you too weak to ask?" Another screamed at his supervisors over a headline change that trivialized toxic waste.

05.06.2026 10

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The dollar has fallen 10% under Trump. It helps big multinational companies but is a ‘hidden tax’ raising costs from vacations to groceries

Trump has suggested a strong dollar puts the U.S. at a disadvantage and that a weak dollar helps American industry.

03.05.2026 10

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20 years ago, David Ellison’s flop as an actor stressed him out so much he went to the hospital. Now he’s set to own Paramount and Warner

Entertainment attorney Tre Lovell said "What Skydance has done over the past two decades has not been accomplished by any other media company in...

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Americans’ new tariff coffee math means ditching the Starbucks, McDonald’s and Dunkin’ runs

"Twenty cents a cup compared to $7 or $8 a cup. The math just makes sense."

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The ultrawealthy have 3 big secrets on reducing taxes including the way they die

“Assets like stocks can quietly grow for decades and, when they’re inherited, the tax bill often disappears.”

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Americans wake up and smell the coffee price surge—skipping Starbucks, brewing at home, and drinking Diet Coke for caffeine

Coffee prices in the U.S. were up 18.3% in January from a year ago. Over five years, coffee prices rose 47%.

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53-year-old customs broker wants to ‘Make Trade Boring Again,’ saying you won’t believe how complex cheese is these days

“That one line item of cheese that previously was just one tariff, now it could be two, three, in some cases five tariff numbers,” says Al Jaffa.

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‘All over again, taxation without representation’: Tea enthusiasts, historians argue tariff regime is the same as the American Revolution

Bruce Richardson of the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum says, “Congress is avoiding the issue by simply allowing the president to act like George...

23.11.2025 30

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The airline chaos is so bad that an expat has to fly to Canada and drive to Pennsylvania to visit her father with terminal cancer

"I don't really want to deal," says Jennifer Dombrowski, a 45-year-old American living in France who has to make it to Erie somehow.

07.11.2025 30

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‘It’s sort of like a divorce’: Top analyst sees trade war with China as ugly, complex: ‘This kind of story doesn’t have a good guy’

"The wife and the husband are accusing one another of things that, from the outside, look more complicated,” says Marc Chandler of Bannockburn...

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Spike in steel tariffs could imperil Trump promise of lower grocery prices

Those metals are so ubiquitous in packaging, they’re likely to pack a punch across consumer products from soup to nuts.

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