FedEx CEO challenges New York Times to debate after critical story
FedEx CEO Fred Smith attacked the New York Times for its story about his company's taxes, and he challenged the newspaper's publisher.
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More tax cuts and negative rates: Trump reveals 2020 economy push
In his mostly scripted speech to the Economic Club of New York, the president revealed both his impeachment counter-programming and his re-election theme for 2020. The president's message to New York's financial elite: The economy is booming because of Trump. You may not like him, but you can't afford not to vote for him.
India slashes business taxes in a bid to boost growth
India is slashing taxes on companies and manufacturers to try to revive its struggling economy.
Trump again dangles a promise of tax cuts
President Donald Trump is reviving last year's promise to slash taxes for America's middle class as he seeks to bolster his reelection bid against Democratic pledges to help people suffering under piles of student loan debt and wrestling to pay oversized medical bills.
Stock buybacks slowing down
Corporate America's epic buyback mania may finally be succumbing to gravity.
Poland scraps income tax for lower-income youth
Being young and Polish has never been this lucrative.
Rand Paul stops unanimous passage of 9/11 first responders bill
Republican Sen. Rand Paul objected Wednesday to an attempt to pass the bill funding 9/11 first responders' health care unanimously, arguing that passing such a long-term bill without offsetting the cost would contribute to the national debt.
India to cut taxes, red tape to lure the likes of Apple
India, until recently the world's fastest growing major economy, wants to haul itself out of a slowdown by cutting business taxes and making it easier for foreign companies like Apple to invest.
Fact-checking night two of the first Democratic presidential debate
The second night of the first 2020 Democratic presidential debate continued with 10 candidates, including three of the top polling leaders in former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Sen. Kamala Harris of California.
Trump to honor Reagan economist with Medal of Freedom
President Donald Trump on Wednesday honored economist Arthur Laffer, a former adviser to Ronald Reagan who is known as the father of supply side economics, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
