Economy

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., is retiring.

Speaking Freely, Retiring Sen. Corker Warns GOP He Could Oppose Tax Plan

10:40am October 06, 2017

by Susan Davis

The Tennessee Republican says he will oppose upcoming tax legislation if he believes it will add to the deficit, which Corker considers the greatest threat facing the country.

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Storm-Battered U.S. Economy Lost 33,000 Jobs In September

10:10am October 06, 2017

by Jim Zarroli

The Labor Department also says the unemployment rate fell to 4.2 percent. The monthly jobs report was likely skewed by the impact of hurricanes that hit in late August and mid-September.

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Economy

The Economics Of A Monthly Movie Pass

7:42am October 06, 2017

by Elizabeth Kulas

We investigate the economic mystery of how a movie pass for $10 a month can offer daily movies at just about any theater.

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Sen. Bob Corker Gets Candid About Tax Cuts, Calls Budget Proposal 'A Waste Of Time'

6:57pm October 05, 2017

by Susan Davis

The Tennessee Republican may be a make-or-break vote on the GOP's top priority: tax cuts. And since Corker announced last week he's not running for reelection, he's speaking more freely on the issue.

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Just two years ago, a former Trump International Golf Club in Puerto Rico filed for bankruptcy. The insolvency filing came less than a month after Trump had announced he would run for president, basing his qualifications on his skills as a businessman.

Trump's Puerto Rico Golf Venture: Not Such A Great Deal

5:01am October 05, 2017

by Peter Overby

President Trump seems pessimistic about Puerto Rico's ability to pay its debts. That view may, in part, reflect his own financial experience there, where he once got stung by a golf course bankruptcy.

Drug lobbyists and consumer health advocates fill the halls of the state Capitol in September to see how Assembly members vote on a controversial drug price transparency bill.

California Bill Would Compel Drugmakers To Justify Price Hikes

11:25pm October 04, 2017

by April Dembosky

A bill passed by the California Legislature requires drugmakers to give 60 days' notice before raising a drug's price by 16 percent or more over two years, and to justify the price increase.

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Analysts at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center predict that nearly three-quarters of the savings from the GOP tax overhaul would go to the top 20 percent of earners.

Who Will Benefit Most From GOP Tax Plan? Early Report Suggests The Wealthy

11:44am October 04, 2017

by Scott Horsley

Republicans in the White House and Congress have billed their tax proposal as a boost for the middle class. But a nonpartisan analysis finds the richest Americans would see the most immediate gains.

Former Equifax CEO Richard Smith testifies about the company's massive data breach before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Tuesday.

Equifax And Wells Fargo Apologize To Congress; Lawmakers Not Buying It

10:57pm October 03, 2017

Equifax's former CEO Richard Smith and Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan both said "sorry" for the harm their companies have inflicted on consumers. But lawmakers scolded them in two different hearings.

A Look At The GOP's Plan To Cut Taxes

6:06pm October 01, 2017

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Republican Bruce Bartlett, former adviser to President Ronald Reagan, who says tax cuts don't spur economic growth.

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Mary Abagi on her farm. She used the payout from her merry-go-round savings club to buy a goat.

How To Buy A Goat When You're Really Poor? Join A 'Merry-Go-Round'

6:06pm October 01, 2017

by Nurith Aizenman

Skeptics say if you hand cash to the impoverished, they'll mismanage it. But it turns out, many poor people are great at saving — thanks to this ingenious system.

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