Jordan Weissmann

2 weeks ago | ca.finance.yahoo.com | Jordan Weissmann

Believe it or not, there have, in fact, been other stories in the world this week beside the market roller coaster over President Trump’s trade policies. Take health care. Between major announcements on Medicare Advantage, coming pharmaceutical tariffs, and Dr. Mehmet Oz’s first speech to his troops at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, we’re beginning to get a clearer glimpse of the new White House health care agenda. Here’s a breakdown of the recent news.

2 weeks ago | finance.yahoo.com | Jordan Weissmann

The emails started hitting Anson Soderbery’s inbox at about 10:30 on Wednesday night. An economist at Purdue University, friends and acquaintances were reaching out to let him know that the Trump administration had just cited one of his papers as grounds for the steep tariff rates it would impose on America’s trade partners, which the president had unveiled on giant poster boards during a Rose Garden speech hours earlier. A few of the notes jokingly congratulated him. But how did he really feel?

3 weeks ago | ca.finance.yahoo.com | Jordan Weissmann

During his Rose Garden address Wednesday announcing sweeping new global tariffs aimed at reducing America’s reliance on imports, President Trump took a couple rhetorical detours to praise his administration’s recent work on bringing down the price of eggs. “They were going through the sky, the egg prices. They were going through the sky, and you did a fantastic job,” he told Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, who was sitting in the audience.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Jordan Weissmann

During his Rose Garden address Wednesday announcing sweeping new global tariffs aimed at reducing America’s reliance on imports, President Trump took a couple rhetorical detours to praise his administration’s recent work on bringing down the price of eggs. “They were going through the sky, the egg prices. They were going through the sky, and you did a fantastic job,” he told Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, who was sitting in the audience.

3 weeks ago | finance.yahoo.com | Jordan Weissmann

Late last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reached a settlement with a small mortgage lender based in Chicago, Townstone Financial, fining the company for discriminating against Black homebuyers and discouraging them from applying for loans by bad-mouthing the city’s heavily African American South Side on the radio.