Aaron Schrank

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• Jul 26, 2018

  A down day for Facebook

  

  Growth is down and spending is up.

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• Jul 24, 2018

  U.S. trade officials hold hearing on next batch of tariffs

  

  In June, President Donald Trump announced tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese goods, most of which went into effect earlier this month. Now U.S. trade officials are set to impose the rest of them, but not before a hearing on Tuesday and Wednesday with U.S. business leaders. The list of products includes industrial machinery, communications […]

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• Jul 19, 2018

  Tesla is synonymous with Elon Musk. Is that a problem?

  

  Musk's erratic behavior has investors worried about the visionary founder that once drew them in.

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• Jul 10, 2018

  California will be a battleground for the rent control debate this November

  

  According to a poll, 60 percent of California voters favor limits on how much landlords can charge.

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• Jun 30, 2018

  Could the U.S. be heading out of the WTO?

  President Donald Trump is telling White House officials he wants to pull the U.S. out of the World Trade Organization, according to news website Axios. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin later dismissed those reports as an “exaggeration.” Axios reported, citing an unnamed official, that the president had complained the WTO was designed by the rest of […]

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• Jun 28, 2018

  Anthropologists help drill down on company culture

  

  Corporate anthropologists work on everything from company culture to marketing research that helps companies understand customers better.

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• Jun 22, 2018

  Street vending may be legal in Los Angeles by summer’s end

  

  But one person's vending cart is a brick-and-mortar shop's competition.

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• Jun 18, 2018

  The nominee to lead the CFPB raises more questions about the agency’s future

  The White House has tapped Mick Mulvaney’s replacement to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the consumer watchdog agency formed in the wake of the financial crisis. Kathy Kraninger is an associate director in the Office of Management and Budget, where Mulvaney has been her boss. Critics worry she has no experience with financial regulations […]

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• Jun 18, 2018

  U.S. suicides are on the rise but funding, research lags

  

  As people mourn the recent deaths of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade, researchers say the growing public health crisis deserves more attention.

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• Jun 6, 2018

  A world without NAFTA. How would that work?

  After more than a year of three-party talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Donald Trump’s top economic aide says a new approach is needed. Larry Kudlow told “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning that the administration now prefers to negotiate with Mexico and Canada separately. “When you have to compromise with a […]

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