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  •  Todd Adams is vice president of Stainless Imports Inc., a small family-owned stainless steel manufacturer based in Florida. We had Adams on the show in early May. His company had applied for an exemption from tariffs on a specific product; the company had “combed the earth” to find a mill that could produce it and found one […]

  • Today, surrounded by executives from some of the country’s best-known companies, President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating the National Council for the American Worker, aimed at developing a stronger workforce. The strategy is heavy on pledges, committees and advisory boards. But who’s going to foot the bill? Click the audio player above to […]

  • Volkswagen Golfs hang on the assembly line at the company's factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, in March.
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    Even so-called "domestic" carmakers are global companies with international supply chains.

  • Summer brought to you by: Song of the summer
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    What is really means to be the song of the summer.

  • The Senate Banking Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing Thursday on Kathleen Kraninger, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The nomination is controversial because Kraninger has no consumer finance experience. Her work has been at the Office of Management and Budget, helping oversee homeland security. And her tenure there raises […]

  • A plume of exhaust extends from the Mitchell Power Station, a coal-fired power plant built along the Monongahela River, in New Eagle, Pennsylvania in 2013.
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    President Trump has effectively weakened the government's calculation of the costs of carbon emissions. Others are working to make it much stronger.

  • The European Commission on Wednesday fined Google $5 billion over charges that prepackaging apps on its Android operating system for phones and other devices had stifled competition. Google denies the claim and plans to appeal, but the fine may have larger implications for the tech industry beyond Google. The move is the latest example of […]

  • A worker saws wood at Canal Crossing, a new luxury apartment community consisting of 393 rental units near the university city of New Haven on August 2, 2017 in Hamden, Connecticut. 
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    Builders are looking into long-term solutions.

  • The European Union fines Google a record $5 billion over its mobile system
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    This is on top of a $2.7 billion fine the company received back in 2017 for favoring its shopping listings in search results.

  • Tuesday in Tokyo, the European Union and Japan inked a fresh trade pact that will eliminate most of the tariffs between them. The EU has been a busy bee on the trade front. It recently agreed to a new deal with Mexico, and a new one with Canada is now up and running. It’s in […]

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