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Oct 12, 2018

Here come the consultants

With an avalanche of tariffs to navigate, companies are facing a lot of uncertainty over how to plan ahead. Meanwhile, business is booming for trade consultants. We’ll talk about it, but first: mortgage rates have hit a seven-year high, and Obamacare prices are dropping for the first time. What’s going on? Plus, how nonprofits fund raise after scandal.

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Trade consultants get a boost from tariff tensions
by Ashley Milne-Tyte
Laura McCallum/Minnesota Public Radio
Anxious importers are flooding the phone lines of trade advisers; one has seen a 20 percent jump in business.
Here’s why Obamacare premiums are going down for the first time
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It's "really about returning excess profits," a Kaiser Family Foundation executive says.
Banks count their blessings in recovery
by Justin Ho
Andrew Burton/Getty Images
Three big banks posted their quarterly results Friday. And they were good. When you hear that profits at a bank like JPMorgan Chase were up almost 25 percent, you have to wonder: Why? Well, one reason is banks are making a lot more from you and me. Click the audio player above to hear the […]

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With an avalanche of tariffs to navigate, companies are facing a lot of uncertainty over how to plan ahead. Meanwhile, business is booming for trade consultants. We’ll talk about it, but first: mortgage rates have hit a seven-year high, and Obamacare prices are dropping for the first time. What’s going on? Plus, how nonprofits fund raise after scandal.