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Federal law enforcement agents enter the headquarters of Caterpillar in Peoria, Ill., on March 2, 2017, after a search warrant was executed at three Caterpillar facilities in central Illinois.

How a Republican tax overhaul plan would help Caterpillar

June 5, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

Federal agents raided Caterpillar's headquarters in Illinois this month, storming the office to collect company documents and digital records.The warrant did not say what the agents were looking for, but...

This CEO was hoping for a Trump tax cut. He might get a tax increase.

June 6, 2018 at 2:04 a.m.

When President Trump won the election, James Hagedorn was ready to take it to the bank. The chief executive of Scotts Miracle-Gro expected that Republicans would reduce his firm's tax...

Proponents at World Economic Forum meet to ensure globalism isn’t done yet

June 6, 2018 at 7:08 a.m.

Amid growing doubts about the future of free trade and international economic cooperation, proponents of globalization found reasons for optimism as the World Economic Forum opened Tuesday. The specters of...

Shutdown of Backpage could hurt sex workers, some say

June 9, 2018 at 12:23 p.m.

Even the world's oldest profession has not been immune to digital disruption. Advertising online has increased the supply and reduced the costs of illicit sex in the United States, data...

Caitlyn Faircloth, a worker with Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream, hands out free ice cream next to a tip jar June 2, 2014, at a rally celebrating the passage of a $15 minimum wage measure outside City Hall in Seattle.

Study: Raising the minimum wage did little for workers’ earnings in Seattle

June 11, 2018 at 9:27 p.m.

Things seem to be going pretty well since Seattle bumped the hourly minimum wage for large businesses up to $11 last year, from the statewide minimum of $9.47 an hour....

The pound’s dramatic decline is the biggest impact of Brexit so far

June 10, 2018 at 8:47 a.m.

While financial overall markets remained fairly calm Monday after last week's plunge, the sharp decline of the British pound deepened Monday, in what is the biggest and most immediate impact...

Supporters listen as Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., addressing a gathering during a campaign rally in Hartford, Conn. on April 25, 2016.

Sanders’ impact on millennials: ‘He’s moving a generation to the left’

May 13, 2019 at 8:12 a.m.

After Bernie Sanders' defeat in New York last week, his chances of winning the Democratic nomination are dwindling. Yet, even if he loses this campaign, a poll published Monday suggests...

Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) debates Hillary Clinton during the CNN Democratic Presidential Primary Debate at the Duggal Greenhouse in the Brooklyn Navy Yard on April 14, 2016 in New York City. Sanders asked federal accountants how many companies pay corporate income tax.

Most firms don’t pay federal corporate income taxes, but it’s complicated

June 11, 2018 at 1:01 a.m.

Bernie Sanders asked federal accountants to tally up how many major corporations pay nothing in federal income taxes, and now we know the answer. On the stump, Sanders has been...

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, speaks during a campaign stop at Dartmouth College, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, in Hanover, N.H.

Bernie Sanders’s health-care plan is the biggest attack on the rich of this campaign

June 21, 2019 at 7:03 p.m.

Last fall, the Wall Street Journal estimated Bernie Sanders' single-payer health care plan would cost the government a whopping $15 trillion over a decade. Sanders' campaign objected - loudly -...

Obama’s skin looks different in 2008 GOP ads

August 19, 2019 at 12:20 a.m.

A new study shows that negative ads targeting President Obama in 2008 depicted him with very dark skin, and that these images would have appealed to some viewers' racial biases....

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