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White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Mick Mulvaney wants to help rich people get richer off of financial regulations

Timothy P. Carney · September 22, 2020 8:34 pm

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy laughs off $4M stock loss amid tech drop

Spencer Neale · September 8, 2020 7:55 pm

An election model suggests that President Trump will be a strong favorite if the market is above 28,052. It passed 28,500 today.

Washington Secrets

Model says Trump wins if Dow hits 28,053 — and it just passed that

Paul Bedard · August 27, 2020 2:41 pm

S&P 500 hits record high, erasing pandemic losses

Jay Heflin · August 18, 2020 3:43 pm

Eugene Scalia speaks at his nomination hearing for Labor Secretary before the Senate Committee on Health, Education Labor and Pensions, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019.

Labor Department is protecting public pensions from political investments

Christopher Burnham · August 14, 2020 4:06 pm

Beltway Confidential

Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia is on the right track with activist investor reform

Charles Sauer · July 24, 2020 7:53 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Biden tax plan would lower stock values by 20-25%, Trump economist says

Nihal Krishan · July 10, 2020 6:21 pm

Afghans carry the body of a man who was killed during an attack, in the southern Helmand province, Monday, June 29, 2020. A car bombing and mortar shells fired at a busy market in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province on Monday killed over 20 people, including children, a statement from a provincial governor's office said.

National Security

At least 20 dead and dozens wounded in mortar strike at Afghan livestock market

Zach Halaschak · June 29, 2020 8:23 pm

Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia is taking on media bias after she wrongly accused of profiting off the coronavirus crisis.

Washington Secrets

Kelly Loeffler calls liberal media ‘fact-free’

Paul Bedard · June 5, 2020 4:18 pm

CNBC screenshot of Sorkin and Kernen

‘All you did was try to help your friend, the president!’: CNBC panel explodes over stock market rally

Mike Brest · May 27, 2020 3:14 pm

The New York Stock Exchange is seen.

Reopening optimism fuels stock market surge

Cassidy Morrison and David Hogberg · May 27, 2020 4:00 am

DOJ drops insider trading inquiries into three senators but Burr case remains active

Zach Halaschak · May 26, 2020 9:44 pm