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MSNBC’s Morning Joe: Inflation’s Long Last Mile

The latest inflation readings arrived and the news was not good, raising questions about the future direction of interest rates. Meanwhile, on a lighter note, the new administration got one policy move right: It announced that it would no longer mint pennies. Instead of ticking downward, the key inflation indicator instead ticked upward. Prices for […]

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MSNBC’s Morning Joe: Trump’s Tariff Mania

In a wild 48 hours, President Donald Trump imposed large tariffs on our three biggest trading partners (Mexico, Canada and China) and then paused them on our two closest neighbors for 30 days while the two sides try to work out a settlement. What that resolution might amount to remains unclear, particularly in the case […]

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MSNBC’s Morning Joe: Trump’s First Missteps

   President Donald Trump took office on Monday and immediately plunged into an unprecedented barrage of executive orders and policy pronouncements. On just his first day, the new president signed 26 executive orders, including one that overturned 67 orders that former president Joe Biden had issued over his four years. By comparison, Biden signed […]

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MSNBC’s Morning Joe: Trump Inherits a Strong America

At his press conference Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump again alluded to his oft-repeated contention that he is inheriting an economy that is in a mess. Almost nothing could be further from the truth. Trump will arrive at a time when the economy has been performing exceptionally well and other challenges — from the border to […]

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MSNBC’s Morning Joe: 2024 in Charts

 For the past 12 years, Steven Rattner has annually published the Year in Charts for The New York Times, a compendium of 10 charts intended to illustrate the most significant events of the previous 12 months. This year, of course, the most momentous event was unquestionably the reelection of Donald Trump to a second, […]

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“[a] surprisingly modest account…Rattner has a journalistic talent for the telling detail, resulting in a memorable tale of life in the middle of the economic meltdown...Rattner deftly draws portraits of the inhabitants of "the Oval" and the West Wing...Rattner has proved himself a gifted chronicler.”
-Time Magazine

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