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Hertz is overcharging tourists who drive their cars across the Golden Gate Bridge, the City of San Francisco said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday against the rental-car giant.
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A report from the Washington Post (an early heads up for those who now won’t want to read further 😀 )
– Jeff Sessions spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Justice Department officials said
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Earlier today, the world’s biggest fast food retailer spooked its investors when it briefly halted trading in its stock ahead of its annual investor day. However, instead of some dramatic M&A deal revelation, McDonalds had a far less exciting announcement: it had decided to go back to basis in an attempt to recover some 500 million U.S. orders it had lost over the past five years to competition as a result of failed attempts to widen its customer base.

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Via Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,

You say you want bold solutions that unite us: start by fully legalizing marijuana.

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Ryan had the headlines here: …
Weidmann
For a bit more, :
Reuters recap of the
Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann
– Euro zone inflation is likely to be sharply higher in 2017 than projected
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Guo Shuqing, is the newly appointed chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC)
– Says risk prevention in the sector will be a more prominent policy focus in 2017.

The Dow has now broken above 21,000 to a new all-time high following Trump’s Joint Address to Congress. We take a look at recent US manufacturing data, monetary policy, unemployment, and consumer confidence to make sense of it all…

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