Economy and Politics

President Donald Trump warned Venezuela of even tougher sanctions on Tuesday, as he accused social-media giants of bias and attacked adviser Kellyanne Conway’s husband.

The White House nominated a former Delta Air Lines executive as permanent head of the Federal Aviation Administration just a week after the agency grounded Boeing's 737 MAX fleet after a fatal Ethiopian Airlines crash. Steve Dickson was tapped to be the agency's next chief. The agency has been run by acting chief Daniel Elwell since January 2018. Dickson was responsible at Delta for helping to train the airline's 13,000 pilots and make sure the company was in compliance with regulations. He is a graduate of the Air Force and a former F-15 fighter pilot who has flown a variety of aircraft. (Updates to reflect the White House announcing the nomination.)

Rutger Bregman went on CNBC to talk about the hot-button topic of increasing taxes on the rich.

Transportation Department Secretary Elaine Chao said in a letter released Tuesday that she's requested the department's inspector general to audit the activities that resulted in the certification by the Federal Aviation Administration's Boeing 737-Max 8 aircraft. That aircraft has had deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. "To help inform the Department's decision making and the public's understanding, and to assist the FAA in ensuring that its safety procedures are implemented effectively, this is to confirm my request that the Office of Inspector General proceed with an audit to compile an objective and detailed factual history of the activities that resulted in the certification of the Boeing 737-Max 8 aircraft," the letter states.

Billionaires aren’t Piketty’s ‘rentiers’ — America’s wealthy demonstrate entrepreneurial innovation.

Here’s a recap of a news conference with President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro at the White House, in which Trump said “something is happening” with social-media companies like Twitter he says are biased against conservatives, and declared that “all options are on the table” to deal with the political situation in Venezuela.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell will likely be a little more upbeat about the economy than he was in January in an effort not to boost the market’s expectation of interest-rate cuts ahead.

A new class-action lawsuit takes aim at real estate agents and the tools they use to do business, and housing industry watchers say it could revolutionize the way Americans buy and sell the biggest asset they’ll ever own.

The Federal Reserve has tried to play down its ‘dot-plot’ projections on the path of interest rates ahead of its March meeting. Here are three things everyone will be looking at

The Federal Reserve is expected this week to answer some specific questions about its plans to stop shedding assets from its balance sheet.

The Federal Reserve is likely to pause rate hikes through 2019, write Ed Yardeni and Melissa Tagg.

Cash-out refinancing fallout could sink home prices, writes Keith Jurow.

Complacent stock-market investors may be shocked when the Fed gets back to raising rates by the end of the year, writes Tim Mullaney.

Donald Trump has accused Facebook and Google of being part of a left-leaning cabal of media outlets whose coverage is biased against conservatives, but that hasn’t stopped the president from spending gobs of money on social media to gain an edge on Democratic foes ahead of the 2020 election.

‘Medicare for All’ bills currently in Congress would cut real gross domestic product by 9% in the long run, the White House said in its annual economic report released Tuesday.

A New York Times article on President Donald Trump’s relationship with Deutsche Bank may offer a window into the questions lawmakers want his former personal banker to answer.

So many Americans are getting passed over by a job training and workforce development system that was never meant for them – and that has to change.

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - U.S. factory orders rose a scant 0.1% in January, another sign pointing to slower economic growth in the first quarter. Economists polled by MarketWatch had forecast a 0.4% increase. Orders for durable goods, or products meant to least at least three years, rose 0.3%. But orders for cheaper products not meant to last a long time, known as nondurable goods, sank 0.5% in January. The 0.1% increase in factory orders in December, meanwhile, was left unchanged.

Beto O’Rourke told Ohio’s cleveland.com that President Donald Trump’s attack on a UAW leader was “absolutely shameful,” after Trump blasted the chief of the union representing workers at the idled General Motors factory in Lordstown.

“Special information call” featuring Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said to have been convened to address the “faith-based media” on the matter of “international religious freedom.”