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Although he lost a key vote in the Legislature promoting his revolutionary consumption tax reform plan last week, Sen. Steve Erdman of Bayard says that loss represented progress with three years left for him to accomplish his goal. Read More.

 Consumer prices rose 4.2% over the 12 months ending in April, according to data released Wednesday by the Labor Department, shooting past expectations one day after inflationary concerns led to the stock market’s worst daily performance in months. Read More.

The Colonial Pipeline attack is said to be the work of the Russian ransomware group Darkside. Read More.

CPI jumped 4.2% year over year Read More.

Colonial Pipeline Co. operates the 5,500 mile system taking fuel from the Gulf Coast to New York. Read More.

Cryptocurrency dropped in value following a mention in Musk's 'SNL' monologue Read More.

Despite lockdown surge the firm’s Luxembourg unit made a €1.2bn loss and therefore paid zero corporation tax Read More.

LINCOLN — State lawmakers balked Wednesday at a proposal to scrap Nebraska’s existing taxes and replace them with a first-in-the-nation consumption tax. Read More.

🇺🇸 The Grassroots Corner - Week Beginning 5/10/21: “Meet Candidate Marissa Selvig” Read More.

BEIJING — China’s exports surged more than expected in April as global demand for Chinese goods remained elevated amid countries’ varying stages of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Read More.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is calling on the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes and to close the tax gap by improving tax compliance and audits. Read More.

Amazon's European business paid no corporation tax last year despite record sales of £38billion. Read More.

Unemployment unexpectedly rose to 6.1% Read More.

While many in the media were praising President Biden’s speech to Congress about his plans to spend as much as $6 trillion dollars in the next few years, Dr. Douglas Holtz-Eaton, the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 2003 to 2005, wrote an article entitled, The Fine Art of Making Things Add Up.  Read More.

Australia's corporate watchdog accused Westpac Banking Corp (WBC.AX) of insider trading while financing a A$16 billion ($12 billion) energy grid privatisation in 2016, the latest in a series of regulatory problems for the country's No. 2 lender. Read More.