An Ebola outbreak has killed dozens of people in Guinea, health officials and aid workers say, demonstrating the range of one of the world's most deadly viruses. Doctors Without Borders Ebola expert Dr. Armand Sprecher discusses. Photo: Getty Images.
According to a report , Biden’s proposed 2025 budget would increase the top marginal rate on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends to an astonishing 44.6%.
Even as they acknowledged disappointment over recent inflation readings, Federal Reserve officials at their last policy meeting indicated they still had faith price pressures would ease, if only slowly, according to the minutes of the U.S. central bank's April 30-May 1 session. While the policy response for now would "involve maintaining" the central bank's benchmark policy rate at its current level, the minutes, released on Wednesday, also reflected discussion of possible further hikes. The minutes also reflected debate about just how restrictive current monetary policy is given the strength of the economy, an important discussion given the need for policy to be "sufficiently" restrictive to cool inflation.