Segments From This Episode

• "Crypto Week" draws to a close

  by Michelle Fleury

  We are at the end of the so-called "Crypto Week" on Capitol Hill, and there is quite a lot to show for it: The House approved basically the first major cryptocurrency legislation ever in the U.S., and it's a win for the crypto industry. One of the bills would lay down rules for a type of cryptocurrency called stablecoins; another would affect how crypto markets in general are regulated.

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• TSMC, the company that actually makes NVIDIA chips, posts record profits

  by Daniel Ackerman

  

  Congress has approved billions to incentivize the Taiwan-based company to build factories in the U.S.

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• $50 billion rural health ‘slush fund’ raises questions, skepticism

  by Sarah Jane Tribble

  

  Lawmakers added a $50 billion program for rural health to President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending package with promises it would help plug the hole left by Medicaid cuts. Rural hospital and clinic leaders worry the infusion won’t reach the right places.

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