Month: January 2020

A new study from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School finds that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ proposed wealth tax on the richest Americans will generate $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion less than what the campaign claims. The results, if accurate, could undercut the critical funding needed to support his plans to develop public health care, education
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Medical staff carry a box as they walk at the Jinyintan hospital, where the patients with pneumonia caused by the new strain of coronavirus are being treated, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China January 10, 2020. Reuters World health officials hesitated Wednesday to designate an outbreak of a flu-like coronavirus that’s killed at least 17 people
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Former Vice President Joe Biden (L) greets Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) before the Democratic presidential primary debate at Drake University on January 14, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. Scott Olson | Getty Images Top Democratic presidential candidates all want to boost Social Security benefits. But two of the candidates — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and
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Johnson & Johnson headquarters in New Brunswick, N.J. Mel Evans | AP Johnson & Johnson‘s fiscal fourth-quarter profit beat Wall Street’s expectations but missed slightly on revenue, the company said Wednesday. Here’s what the company reported compared with Wall Street estimates, based on a survey of analysts by Refinitiv: Adjusted earnings per share: $1.88 versus
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Paul Tudor Jones Leanne Miller | CNBC Billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones said the stock market today is reminiscent of the one in early 1999.  “We are just again in this craziest monetary and fiscal mix in history. It’s so explosive. It defies imagination,” Jones CNBC’s Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “It
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