finance
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To finance the initiative, he invoked the Defense Production Act, a Cold War-era law that grants the president broad authority to support industries considered vital to national security.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
“This is a big move for the banks,” Clearing House Chief Executive David Watson told The Wall Street Journal, as the industry faces a “radically different” future around on-chain payments and finance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
That means finding a way to offset revenues from oil extraction, which currently finance many municipal services, and are projected to drop from more than $50 million annually to around $21 million by 2035.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
Credit for discovering this phenomenon goes to Odhrain McCarthy, a finance professor at New York University’s Abu Dhabi campus.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026
The original mortgage bond market had come into the world in much the same way, messily, coaxed into existence by the extreme interest of a small handful of people on the margins of high finance.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Richard Nixon's "Checkers" Speech (1952)
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Economics
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