Month: May 2023

With Armageddon slated to arrive on or about the first of next month, it seems like a good time to get started with those debt limit negotiations. President Biden, of course, says he won’t bargain over raising the ceiling; only a “clean” increase will do. But the president has also invited House Speaker Kevin McCarthy,
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Display showing Gecko character for GEICO Insurance during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. Yun Li | CNBC Berkshire Hathaway shareholders attending this year’s meeting will want to know more about the company Warren Buffett once called his “favorite child” – the auto insurer Geico. With tens of thousands of shareholders in
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The Federal Reserve Bank building Kevin Lamarque | Reuters The Federal Reserve raised the target federal funds rate by another 0.25 percentage point on Wednesday. This marks the 10th time the Fed has raised its benchmark interest rate over the past year or so, the fastest pace of tightening since the early 1980s.  Even though the Fed’s rate-hiking
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A Louisiana man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for money laundering related to a fraudulent scheme involving Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Program loans. The Scheme According to court documents, Michael Ansezell Tolliver submitted nine fraudulent PPP and EIDL Program loan applications for several purported companies that Tolliver
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In this article CVS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT CVS Health on Wednesday reported first-quarter results that beat earnings and revenue expectations, but the company lowered its full-year profit guidance due to costs related to recent acquisitions. The company’s shares fell more than 2% on Wednesday. Here’s what CVS reported compared with Wall Street’s
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Many folks once scoffed at the idea that people would rent their homes to strangers — including Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky’s own mother. That’s according to Chesky, who told the story at a recent Stanford Graduate School of Business event. As he recounted, he was a 20-something industrial designer, struggling to pay rent.
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