Con Trump il deficit Usa è aumentato del 17% in un anno
NEW YORK – Le minori entrate fiscali per il taglio della corporate tax, l’aumento delle spese militari e l’incremento degli interessi sul debito pubblico: nell’anno fiscale 2018, concluso il 30 settembre, il deficit federale degli Stati Uniti d’America ha raggiunto i massimi, toccando i 779 miliardi di dollari. Con un balzo del 17% in soli dodici […]
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Crollano le Borse asiatiche: Tokyo -3,9%, Shanghai -6% – il sole 24ore
Pesano sui mercati azionari i commenti duri del presidente degli Usa Donald Trump sulla Federal Reserve e i troppo frequenti rialzi dei tassi: «La Fed è impazzita – ha detto il presidente degli Stati Uniti – non abbiamo un problema di inflazione». La debolezza registrata a Wall Street – contagia anche l’Asia dove la Borsa […]
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Collins and Manchin Will Vote for Kavanaugh, Ensuring His Confirmation – The New York Times
The last-minute announcements by Senators Susan Collins and Joe Manchin III capped an emotional and deeply divisive Supreme Court confirmation process. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Nicholas Fandos WASHINGTON — Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, whose Supreme Court hearings ripped apart the Senate and roiled the nation, headed for final confirmation to the court after two key undecided senators […]
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Estranged in America: Both Sides Feel Lost and Left Out – NY Times
Nearly half of Democrats say they feel this way, slightly more than Republicans. In the 2016 election, Donald J. Trump tapped into a sentiment strongly held by white working-class voters that America had changed so much around them that they felt estranged in their own country. The sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild described that feeling among […]
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Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father – The New York Times
The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s. By DAVID BARSTOW, SUSANNE CRAIG and RUSS BUETTNER President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including […]
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