Tag: Money

The Other Iran

The Scrapbook · January 12, 2018 9:00 am

Bitcoin's value dipped slightly on Wednesday afternoon, according to tracking service Coindesk, paring 12 months of gains that had taken its value to $14,855 as both the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the CBOE Futures Exchange offered futures contracts in it. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

The ‘Oracle of Omaha’ delivers an ominous warning about bitcoin

James Langford · January 10, 2018 3:19 pm

The calculation does not take into account the specific occupation, career, personal, or educational choices, overtime work hours, or hours worked per week. (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

Nevertheless, the gender wage gap myth persisted

Louis Sarkozy · January 8, 2018 8:03 pm

Former E! News co-host Catt Sadler on Wednesday said she chose to leave her television job because she found out a "similarly situated male co-host" was earning significantly more than her. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Former E! News host Catt Sadler claims network paid her half the salary of male co-host

Anna Giaritelli · December 20, 2017 6:36 pm

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, right, shows his wife Louise Linton a sheet of new $1 bills, the first currency notes bearing his and U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza's signatures, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington. The Mnuchin-Carranza notes, which are a new series of 2017, 50-subject $1 notes, will be sent to the Federal Reserve to issue into circulation. At left is BEP Director Leonard Olijar. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Steven Mnuchin: It’s a compliment that I look like a ‘James Bond’ villain in photo with dollar bills

Naomi Lim · November 19, 2017 4:06 pm

"Trump Asia trip a flop: POTUS acts like a lap dog to Xi and China, but talks tough to our friends in Southeast Asia. Presidency by misadventure," Schumer tweeted.

Chuck Schumer: Trump ‘acts like a lap dog’ to China

Laura Barrón-López · November 12, 2017 6:23 pm

President Trump has long saddled China with much of the blame for perpetuating unfair standards in the region. But since taking office, Trump has moved more slowly to put pressure on China over its trade practices. (Anthony Wallance/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump calls out China, other Asian countries for ‘unacceptable’ trade imbalances

Sarah Bedford · November 10, 2017 12:44 pm

Can This State Be Saved?

Alice B. Lloyd · October 6, 2017 8:00 am

The Joys of Golfing Alone

Ethan Epstein · September 18, 2017 2:30 pm

Golfing Alone

Ethan Epstein · September 15, 2017 8:00 am

"People have been on the bills for a long period of time, this is something we'll consider," Mnuchin said. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Steven Mnuchin won’t commit to putting Harriet Tubman on $20 bill

Joseph Lawler · August 31, 2017 4:10 pm

".@IvankaTrump, self-styled champion of women, you just supported end of pay-equity rule," the Anne Frank Center, a human and civil rights nonprofit, wrote on Twitter. "Your mirror has two faces."

Ivanka Trump slammed for not standing up to rollback of Obama-era equal-pay initiative

Naomi Lim · August 31, 2017 3:10 am