Rick Newman

Minimum wage increase? Where's the money coming from?

A minimum wage increase will hurt the ones it's supposed to help. Rick Newman joins Jim Blasingame to report that raising the minimum wage will not result in a raise for everyone because employers have other options, like technology.

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Rick Newman joins Jim Blasingame to report on the apparent war President Trump has declared on Amazon, and to debate other real abuses that Amazon creates for small businesses, especially small publishers.
Rick Newman joins Jim Blasingame to report on some of the steps the Trump administration has taken on trade, and whether the tough stance is protectionism or a negotiating strategy.
Rick Newman joins Jim Blasingame to report on recent accidents involving self-driving cars and whether this will deter the future of this technology.
Rick Newman joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how Congress gets to their tax reform numbers by balancing concession with raising revenue, while Jim points out the corporate and small business top rate should be the same.
Rick Newman joins Jim Blasingame to report that Russia did, in fact, conduct significant ad buys on Facebook alone during the 2016 election cycle, which most of it was anti-Clinton, but no indication of Trump collusion.