Ken Thomas

The global economy is sailing through this year’s historic increase in tariffs, displaying an unexpected trait: resilience wsj.com/economy/trade/…

The European Union is taking steps to hit back against U.S. companies if a trade deal can’t be reached by President Trump’s Aug. 1 deadline ⁦@WSJ⁩ wsj.com/world/europe/e…

“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” was for years ritual viewing and an advertising juggernaut for CBS. This summer network executives, looking at financials that had turned bleak, decided to pull the plug. wsj.com/business/media…

El Salvador’s government sent the more than 250 Venezuelans it was holding in its maximum-security prison to Caracas in exchange for 10 Americans detained by Maduro’s government wsj.com/world/americas…

In one of her first major interviews since leaving the Treasury in January, Janet Yellen talks with @bobdavis187 about her dealings with China, her concerns about where American trade policy is now headed — and her difficulties working within the Biden administration.…

🇺🇸 Congress Backs Trump Clawback ▫House follows Senate in passing measure rescinding $9 billion of federal spending ▫@KThomasDC @lindsaywise & Jasmine Li #frontpagestoday #USA @WSJ 🇺🇸

The House followed the Senate in passing the measure rescinding $9 billion in federal spending, following through on President Trump’s efforts to defund the programs wsj.com/politics/polic…

Major story from @khadeeja_safdar & @joe_palazzolo Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. wsj.com/politics/trump…

Waller arrives at this out-of-consensus position (relative to his colleagues) because he thinks the Fed should look through tariffs and move rates closer to neutral. “We should not wait until the labor market deteriorates before we cut the policy rate.” wsj.com/economy/centra…

The president has a "chronic venous insufficiency" as revealed by a recent medical exam, contributing to the bruising seen on his hands recently that's gained some media attention, @PressSec says at her briefing with reporters.

The Senate passed a White House-endorsed plan overnight to cancel $9 billion in funding for foreign-aid programs and public media wsj.com/politics/polic…

Trump Denies He Is Planning to Attempt to Fire Powell ⁦@schwartzbWSJ⁩ ⁦@NickTimiraos⁩ wsj.com/politics/polic…

Senate Republicans reached an agreement Tuesday w/ the White House on a slimmed-down $9 billion package of spending cuts that preserves funding for PEPFAR ⁦@lindsaywise⁩ wsj.com/politics/polic…

Thune says the Senate will move forward with a procedural vote Tuesday on the $9.4B rescissions package. "I think we have colleagues who would like to see perhaps some modest changes made and so we’re trying to find out if there is a path forward that gets us 51."

Consumer prices rose 2.7% in June from a year earlier, faster than May’s increase of 2.4% wsj.com/economy/inflat…

BREAKING: The Supreme Court is allowing President Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track and lay off nearly 1,400 employees. apnews.com/article/suprem…

New from me and @KThomasDC: Voluntary departures from the government have thinned the ranks so much that some agencies are saying more cuts aren’t necessary after all. Partly to blame: voluntary attrition following new scrutiny of government work. wsj.com/politics/polic…

Air and land drones dominate the battlefield in Ukraine—laying mines, delivering ammunition and medication, even evacuating casualties wsj.com/world/europe/a…

(Bloomberg) -- King Charles III will host US President Donald Trump for a state visit in September, the second time Trump will have received the highest honor offered to a visiting dignitary by the UK.

Economists expect stronger growth and job creation, lower risk of recession and cooler inflation than they did three months ago, according to a Wall Street Journal survey wsj.com/economy/econom…