Category: Finance News

Nov 17

: From student-loan forgiveness to clamping down on for-profit colleges, Biden will aim to reverse Betsy DeVos’s education policies

Stakeholders are hopeful that Jill Biden’s role as a community college professor will increase emphasis on these schools in a Biden administration. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images When Betsy DeVos was confirmed as Secretary of Education nearly four years ago, Vice President Mike Pence broke a tie in the Senate, making her nomination for the post one […]
Nov 16

Perdue backs out of debate after being called a “crook,” Ossoff will face off against empty podium

Jon Ossoff; David Perdue Jon Ossoff and David Perdue Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images This article originally appeared here on Salon.com Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff called Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., a “coward” on Sunday for refusing to participate in any debates ahead of their January runoff election in Georgia. Perdue will be “represented by […]
Nov 16

Trump coronavirus advisor Scott Atlas urged people to ‘rise up’ against new restrictions in Michigan, then said he wasn’t trying to encourage violence

Dr. Scott Atlas at the White House in October 2020. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Scott Atlas was heavily criticized on Sunday when he tweeted that the people of Michigan should “rise up” against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s new COVID-19 restrictions.  Whitmer announced on Sunday that the state would be instituting new […]
Nov 16

‘I think everybody’s taken a deep breath’: Joe Biden didn’t get a ‘blue wave’ but here are 5 ways he can advance his tax agenda

Joe Biden campaigned for president on a vow to raise taxes for the rich and corporations so that they’d pay their “fair share” — a vow that made some affluent families game out various investment and estate planning scenarios. That pledge was premised on a “blue wave” where Democrats kept the House of Representatives and […]
Nov 16

Scientists pour cold water on ‘intriguing’ — and potentially fatal — similarity between COVID-19 and 1918 flu

“Cytokine storms” have captured the imagination of both historians and the medical community. Despite early comparisons between COVID-19 and influenza, the novel coronavirus was never going to be just another flu. It comes from a different family of viruses, and it has proven far more pernicious and unpredictable. Even so, cytokine storms, where the immune […]