How Trump's proposed pharmaceutical tariffs could affect you

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• What Trump's pharmaceuticals tariff threats mean for patients

  by Samantha Fields

  

  President Donald Trump has threatened tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals of up to 250%.

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• There's gold (tariffs) in them there hills

  by David Brancaccio

  Surprise: There will be a tariff on 100-oz and one-kilo gold bars, and that news sent the price of gold above $3,400 an ounce — an all-time high — briefly last night. What should we make of this unexpected import tax? We'll ask economist Christopher Low at FHN Financial for his thoughts.

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• Fill-in for Fed seat announced

  by Henry Epp

  President Donald Trump has picked his top economic advisor, Stephan Myran, to fill a short-term spot at the Federal Reserve. He takes the place of Adriana Kugler, who unexpectedly announced her resignation last week.

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• Where should Congo's dollars go?

  by Will Chalk

  The Democratic Republic of Congo has a refugee crisis and, at a time when the UN says a peace deal to address a decades-long conflict with Rwanda is in jeopardy, the Congo government is opting to spend big on the sponsorship of soccer.

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