President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Gail Slater, an antitrust veteran and economic adviser for JD Vance, to lead the Department of Justice’s antitrust division and take charge of a full docket of blockbuster monopoly cases against companies including Google, Visa and Apple. Slater is expected to continue the department’s crackdown on Big Tech, including cases brought during Trump’s first
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The University of Central Florida’s downtown Orlando campus is served by the student housing project that is being acquired by nonprofit Provident Resources Group.UCF/Nick Leyva In the context of a struggling higher education sector but high demand for high-yield paper, Florida’s Capital Projects Housing Authority is pricing $144 million in speculative-grade and unrated housing revenue
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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world EU countries are discussing a €500bn joint fund for common defence projects and arms procurement, tapping bond markets to boost spending in anticipation of Donald Trump’s White House return. Trump’s threat to withdraw
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Share Tweet By Tr Goins-Phillips Editor December 4, 2024 At Christmastime, churches plan for larger crowds but those preparations might not pan out this year, at least for some congregations across the country. A just-released survey from Lifeway Research found just under half of Americans (47%) say they typically attend church services during the Christmas
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Martial law:South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Tuesday, claiming it was necessary to protect the homeland from “anti-state forces” including North Korean sympathizers. After a night of protests, the decree was rescinded merely six hours after it had gone into effect. Now, the country’s opposition parties are attempting to impeach the
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Interest rates on credit cards have been unusually high for a while and have become an occasional target of politicians. In 2020, during Kamala Harris’ first presidential campaign, she proposed forbidding credit card companies from charging interest altogether during the pandemic. In September this year, during a campaign rally in New York, Donald Trump proposed
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President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Gail Slater, an antitrust veteran and economic adviser for JD Vance, to lead the Department of Justice’s antitrust division and take charge of a full docket of blockbuster monopoly cases against companies including Google, Visa and Apple. Slater is expected to continue the department’s crackdown on Big Tech, including cases brought during Trump’s first
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The Department of Energy is a breeding ground for fraud and abuselike most government agencies. In its recently released Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 performance report , the agency’s Office of Inspector General identified nearly $1 billion of wasteful spending this year. In 2024, audits from the Inspector General found more than $814 million of questioned
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Silicon Valley visionaries dream of making mega-money out of cool, futuristic products that thrill consumers, such as the metaverse, self-driving cars or health-monitoring apps. The duller reality is that most venture capitalists generate the best
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Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. Issuance of housing bonds for the first half of the year was at $22.243 billion in 357 issues, up 31.7% from 1H 2023’s figure of $16.891 billion in 381 issues. Volume rose in both the first and second quarters, with the former
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Regular readers of FT Alphaville may have formed the impression that its current and former writers are united in scepticism about crypto in general and bitcoin in particular. This is correct.  FTAV posts between June
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bitcoin’s hit $100,000. Congrats on the money, everyone! It’s challenging to discern what’s on the horizon for crypto after this big round number, given the well-known and glaring problems with trying to figure out how
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