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“But if it’s not growing in dollar terms and dollars is what you’re earning if you’re the foreign firm trying to sell to China, then that really undercuts that narrative.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“When the time is right, I will be. But right now, just trying to be in the present moment and focus on this. But the thing is my kids do come first.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Many consumers turn to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after trying to resolve an issue directly with a financial firm.

From The Wall Street Journal

Here was a film trying so hard to convince the audience of its highbrowness that it lost the genuinely arresting effect these smaller-tier Hoover adaptations have by simply being honest with the audience.

From Salon

When there was a pandemic, did you go crazy trying to pick individual stocks that you thought would soar — like Peloton — only to see them plummet just as fast?

From MarketWatch