Author: Daniel snow

[ad_1] What does it take for a state to attract businesses and jobs in 2025? President Trump has turned many states’ well-worn economic development playbooks upside down.As the administration seeks to drastically cut the size of the federal government, states that previously could count on Washington for federal jobs, grants and contracting dollars are suddenly out of luck. Meanwhile, the states that are less reliant on the federal government are looking smart.And then there are the tariffs. Some states have built large parts of their economies on international trade, which the Trump trade war is disrupting.”Something affecting one country or…

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[ad_1] U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks, during a tour of Nucor Steel Berkeley in Huger, South Carolina, U.S., May 1, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | ReutersPresident Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance are now double-teaming the Federal Reserve in an effort to get lower interest rates.In a social media post Wednesday morning on X, Vance echoed his boss’s urging that the central bank ease monetary policy, after the latest inflation readings showed that tariffs are yet to exert any substantial upward pressure on inflation.”The president has been saying this for a while, but it’s even more clear: the refusal…

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[ad_1] Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during a Bloomberg Television interview at the JPMorgan Chase & Co. Capital Markets conference in Paris, France, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. Cyril Marcilhacy | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe impacts of the pandemic-era government spending and monetary policy that helped support the U.S. economy have faded, and that makes the country vulnerable to a downturn in the coming months, according to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.”I think there’s a chance real numbers will deteriorate soon,” Dimon said at a Morgan Stanley conference on Tuesday, according to a transcript from…

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[ad_1] My top 10 things to watch Wednesday, June 11 1. The U.S. and China have agreed to a trade framework after two days of talks in London. It sounds like we need something more than they do. The lack of leverage with the Chinese is ridiculous. All that trade disrupted, and it was always going to come down to rare earth minerals . 2. The May consumer price index came in cooler than expected, and that’s giving a lift to the market. We’re now tracking for a higher open. On annual basis, core CPI was up 2.8% versus 2.9%…

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[ad_1] Avalos has lots of relatives in Guadalajara, Mexico. He said that while he would worry about violence if he moved there, “at the same time, you know, a lot of my family in Mexico, like, their kids have degrees, they own their homes, and I don’t see them struggling that much to put food on their plates.”Partnership is still a goal, but kids seem out of reachFor all the hand-wringing about how Gen Z and gender polarization has made dating more difficult, nearly all the people I spoke to were married or saw a permanent, long-term relationship as part…

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