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‘I feel like I’m in a financial prison’: Trump Wall Street plan puts ‘mom and pop’ investors at risk, advocates say
Trump says everyday Americans deserve a chance to buy higher-risk ‘alternative’ investments. Critics say this could lead to big losses for small investors …
UK’s right-wing Reform party names Jenrick as finance chief
Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party named Robert Jenrick as its finance policy chief on Tuesday, as leader Nigel Farage made the first announcement of
A Case for Early Social Security Invested In Gold
Conventional investment advisors generally recommend that seniors delay taking Social Security as long as possible to maximize their lifetime benefit. The logic is simple:
MAGA Exile Marjorie Taylor Greene Shreds ‘Biggest Miscalculation’ of Trump’s Career
The woman who was once Donald Trump’s fiercest supporter on Capitol Hill has torn into the president for what she says was the fatal
Citing Orwell’s ‘1984,’ judge orders Trump administration to return slavery exhibits removed from Philadelphia museum
A federal judge, evoking the dystopian world of George Orwell’s novel “1984,” ordered the Trump administration on Monday to return a long-standing exhibit on
What Jesse Jackson and Donald Trump Said About Each Other
Rev. Jesse Jackson and former President Donald Trump shared a long, if unusual, public history. Jackson praised Trump in the 1990s for supporting minority
Donald Trump approval rating hits new low with independents
“When you lose the center of the electorate, you lose the American people,” one data analyst said.
Here are the 3 big things we're watching in the stock market this week
Fears of AI disruption spread to new corners of the stock market last week. Now, a question on investors’ minds entering the holiday-shortened week
Rivian Stock Under $20 — Is Now the Time to Buy?
Rivian will begin deliveries of its R2 fleet in the second quarter of 2026. Rivian (RIVN +26.64%) is on an upswing now, but the