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Jeff Bezos wants the bottom half of earners to pay zero income tax—he says nurses making just $75K should save $12K a year

Billionaire Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, says the bottom 50% of Americans should pay no federal income tax—and he plans to pitch the idea to President Trump.

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Photo: Scott Bessent, US treasury secretary, during the Federal Reserve Board Community Bank Conference in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. The conference focuses on key issues facing the community bank sector. Photographer: Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images
EconomyGlobal markets tumble as Beijing imposes new ban on U.S. shipping. Bessent vows China ‘will be hurt the most’ if it doesn’t surrender
By Jim EdwardsOctober 14, 2025
  • Trump to hike China tariffs to 130% and impose software export controls next month, as trade war reignites to nearly ‘Liberation Day’ levels
    EconomyTrump to hike China tariffs to 130% and impose software export controls next month, as trade war reignites to nearly ‘Liberation Day’ levels
    By Jason MaOctober 10, 2025
Wilbur Ross, U.S. commerce secretary, listens as U.S. President Donald Trump, left, speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, March 23, 2018.
Economy‘Rare earths are a very useful weapon for China’: Former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on the big economic danger
By Eva RoytburgOctober 13, 2025
NYSE broker
InvestingTop analyst warns that ‘larger than expected correction is likely’ if Trump and China don’t kiss and make up
By Nick LichtenbergOctober 13, 2025
GoFundMe CEO says the economy is so bad that more of his customers are crowdfunding just to pay for their groceries
EconomyGoFundMe CEO says the economy is so bad that more of his customers are crowdfunding just to pay for their groceries
By Ashley LutzOctober 13, 2025
Jeremy Siegel, the Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, addresses the Securities Industry Association during their annual meeting in Boca Raton, Florida, Thursday, November 10, 2005.
Economy‘Scandalous’: Top economist Jeremy Siegel says U.S. sleepwalked into rare earths crisis as China tightens its grip
By Eva RoytburgOctober 13, 2025
Nobel
EconomyEconomist awarded Nobel prize before his morning coffee or walking his dog: ‘I had no clue that anything like this was going to happen’
By Kostya Manenkov, Christopher Rugaber, Mike Corder, David McHugh and The Associated PressOctober 13, 2025
  • The U.S. and South Korea need to salvage their tariff and investment agreement—for the sake of the alliance
    AsiaThe U.S. and South Korea need to salvage their tariff and investment agreement—for the sake of the alliance
    By Victor ChaOctober 10, 2025
Would-be homebuyers are getting cold feet and backing out of deals at a record pace as some sellers have a ‘hard time adjusting’ to new reality
Real EstateWould-be homebuyers are getting cold feet and backing out of deals at a record pace as some sellers have a ‘hard time adjusting’ to new reality
By Jason MaOctober 13, 2025
Javier Milei, Donald Trump
CommentaryArgentina passes the begging bowl, again
By Steve H. HankeOctober 13, 2025
An Amazon same-day delivery fulfillment shipping center is in Woodland Park, New Jersey, on Monday, Dec. 18, 2023.
EconomyHoliday hiring forecast to fall to 16-year low as tariffs force retail pullback
By Anne D'Innocenzio and The Associated PressOctober 13, 2025
Xi Jinping, Donald Trump
EconomyChina calls for Trump to drop 100% tariff threat, urges U.S. to ‘promptly correct its erroneous practices’
By Huizhong Wu and The Associated PressOctober 13, 2025
This combination of pictures created on May 14, 2020 shows recent portraits of China's President Xi Jinping (R) and US President Donald Trump.
EconomyTrump bet China would face ‘tremendous difficulties’ without U.S. consumers—Beijing just focused on the rest of the world instead
By Eleanor PringleOctober 13, 2025
  • Trump, Xi
    EconomyTrump claims China holding the world ‘hostage’ on rare earths is ‘especially inappropriate’ after Gaza peace deal
    By Josh Boak, Didi Tang and The Associated PressOctober 10, 2025
Wall Street thinks Trump will be forced to make a deal for China’s rare earth minerals
EconomyWall Street thinks Trump will be forced to make a deal for China’s rare earth minerals
By Jim EdwardsOctober 13, 2025
Dow futures jump nearly 400 points as markets eye another serving of the TACO trade after Trump says ‘Don’t worry about China’
InvestingDow futures jump nearly 400 points as markets eye another serving of the TACO trade after Trump says ‘Don’t worry about China’
By Jason MaOctober 12, 2025
China’s rare earth controls can ‘forbid any country on Earth from participating in the modern economy,’ former White House advisor warns
EconomyChina’s rare earth controls can ‘forbid any country on Earth from participating in the modern economy,’ former White House advisor warns
By Jason MaOctober 12, 2025
ICE
North AmericaMeet a 62-year-old Washington state farmworker who chose self-deportation to Mexico after raising 4 children and 10 grandchildren in the U.S.
By Martha Bellisle and The Associated PressOctober 12, 2025
Scott Bessent
EconomyBessent’s big gamble on Argentina has a narrow road to pay off
By Daniel Flatley, Manuela Tobias and BloombergOctober 12, 2025
shopper
EconomyTrump keeps saying he’s ‘defeated’ inflation but coffee is 21% more expensive and groceries just had their largest non-pandemic jump in a decade
By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated PressOctober 12, 2025
Donald Trump
Economy‘It’s sort of like a divorce’: Top analyst sees trade war with China as ugly, complex: ‘This kind of story doesn’t have a good guy’
By Matt Sedensky and The Associated PressOctober 12, 2025
Donald Trump
EconomyChina defiant in first official response to Trump: ‘We do not want a tariff war but we are not afraid of one’
By Ken Moritsugu and The Associated PressOctober 12, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House on October 06, 2025 in Washington, DC.
EconomyTrump’s tariff-revenue checks could create a ‘weird feedback loop’ that encourages more price hikes, analyst says
By Nino PaoliOctober 12, 2025
At this rate, the price of gold could soar to $10,000 per ounce in just three years
EconomyAt this rate, the price of gold could soar to $10,000 per ounce in just three years
By Jason MaOctober 11, 2025
Trump’s own Labor Department quietly admits his immigration crackdown risks ‘supply shock-induced food shortages’ and higher prices
EconomyTrump’s own Labor Department quietly admits his immigration crackdown risks ‘supply shock-induced food shortages’ and higher prices
By Jason MaOctober 11, 2025
US President Donald Trump gestures as he walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 10, 2025.
EconomyNew China tariffs announced during government shutdown and AI valuation debate are a ‘perfect storm coming together,’ top economist says
By Nino PaoliOctober 11, 2025
Markets expect Trump’s latest China tariffs will backfire as gold jumps and the dollar ‘is not looking healthy’
EconomyMarkets expect Trump’s latest China tariffs will backfire as gold jumps and the dollar ‘is not looking healthy’
By Jason MaOctober 11, 2025
NYSE broker
EconomyStocks’ worst swoon since fallout from Liberation Day: Trump Truth Social post on ‘massive increase of tariffs’ shatters calm
By Stan Choe, Nick Lichtenberg and The Associated PressOctober 11, 2025
Postal worker
North AmericaPostal traffic to U.S. plunges 70% for a full 5 weeks after end of ‘de minimis’ exemption
By Mae Anderson and The Associated PressOctober 11, 2025
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EconomyTrump layoffs, shattered trust harden Democrats’ shutdown stance
By Steven T. Dennis and BloombergOctober 11, 2025
Sean Duffy
EconomyAir traffic controllers working without pay get warning from boss: ‘Staff that aren’t dedicated like we need, we’ll let them go’
By Josh Funk and The Associated PressOctober 11, 2025
Donald Trump
Economy‘RIFs have begun’: Trump’s budget office escalates government shutdown with mass firings of federal workers
By The Associated PressOctober 11, 2025
The government shutdown couldn’t have come at a worse time for D.C. Its $11 billion tourism industry is bracing for impact
EconomyThe government shutdown couldn’t have come at a worse time for D.C. Its $11 billion tourism industry is bracing for impact
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezOctober 11, 2025
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