Rick Newman

Columnist, Yahoo Finance; book author

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Jan. 16, 2021

The four Donald Trumps I’ll miss the most

Donald Trump is leaving the presidency maligned as a tyrant and narcissist. This is unfair. I can prove it, because I’m a proud owner of the Official Trump Coloring Book. I bought the OTCB last May because I knew right away this would become a…

Dec. 17, 2020

Yahoo! News

The latest stimulus plan isn't so bad

In Washington, D.C., it’s a Democratic party mantra: Any stimulus bill that doesn’t include a couple hundred billion dollars in state and local aid is a failure. Elsewhere in the country, however, the new bipartisan stimulus package that Congress may…

Dec. 16, 2020

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How Biden plans to attack climate change

Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan, argues that green-energy investments are the key to the future of America’s gas-guzzler auto industry. In a November editorial, she pointed out low-carbon energy is one of the fastest-growing…

Dec. 14, 2020

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Trump will drift into irrelevance

As the Electoral College affirms Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump is ending his presidency in full bombast. His refusal to concede and his hints about running again in 2024 fuel belief he’ll become a combative…

Dec. 11, 2020

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This week in Trumponomics: a Trump superpower blinks off

For most of his presidency, Donald Trump has wielded remarkable power over CEOs: They dare not cross him publicly, lest he attack their companies and cause needless headaches, or worse. But the spell is lifting. Trump held a vaccine bragfest at the…

Dec. 11, 2020

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How Biden’s presidency will differ from Obama’s

Will Joe Biden’s presidency be the equivalent of Barack Obama’s third term? Yes and no. In some ways, Biden seems to be mimicking Obama, whom he served as vice president for eight years. Biden’s choice for Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, had the…

Dec. 9, 2020

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The Republican fixation that’s blocking more stimulus

Republicans call it a liability shield. You could also call it a stimulus killer. In the fourth or fifth or maybe it’s the sixth month of negotiations over a new coronavirus stimulus bill, talks continue to stall over Republican demands for a…

Dec. 8, 2020

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Biden is forming a business-friendly administration

If the socialists are coming, they haven’t booked their tickets yet. President Trump has lampooned incoming President Joe Biden as a business-wrecking radical who will kill jobs and depress stock prices. But Biden’s early choices for Cabinet jobs and…

Nov. 6, 2020

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This week in Trumponomics: The end of Trumponomics

Since 2017, we’ve been doing a weekly assessment of the Trump economy: the latest news on jobs, growth, tariffs, stocks and coronavirus shutdowns. We’ve been critical of President Trump when he lied about the economy, downplayed the coronavirus…

Nov. 6, 2020

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The crucial Trump voting bloc that drifted to Biden

Donald Trump built his famed “base” around white working-class voters who felt Washington politicians abandoned them. Yet lifelong Washington politician Joe Biden appears to have cornered just enough of those alienated whites to have put him over the…

Nov. 5, 2020

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How Trump's legal woes will worsen once he leaves office

Donald Trump has used his duties as president to shield himself from a variety of lawsuits during the last four years. That will change if Joe Biden deposes him and Trump becomes a private citizen once again. Trump is a magnet for litigation, and he…

Nov. 4, 2020

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Progressive Democrats lost bigly in 2020

Odds are, Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States. But if he squeaks out a win over Donald Trump, he’ll take office next January with weak momentum, major barriers to governing and a large faction of his Democratic party isolated…

Nov. 3, 2020

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The Obama-Biden economy outperformed Trump’s

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is running on his record as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2017, and President Trump is running against that record. So on the final day of voting in 2020, who did better on the…

Nov. 3, 2020

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4 upsides of the dystopian Trump presidency

With President Trump seemingly poised to lose his reelection bid, many commentators are lamenting the damage of the last four years: shattered norms, the politicization of everything, the endless self-dealing, perhaps even criminal activity in the…

Nov. 2, 2020

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Election 2020: The economy fades as a top voter concern

It’s long been axiomatic that the economy is always the most important issue in elections, with candidates who lose sight of this basic rule likely to lose. But maybe not in 2020. Polling from Gallup shows that voters rank the economy surprisingly…

Oct. 30, 2020

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This week in Trumponomics: The second-term mystery

What would President Trump do in a second term, if he wins reelection? Trump hasn’t really said. At his rallies and other appearances, Trump tries to convince his supporters the economy is roaring back, while trying to scare them about a “radical”…

Oct. 29, 2020

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6 Trump ploys to grab last-minute votes

Nothing is sacred in politics, and presidents in tight reelection races typically pander to voters to boost their odds of a second term. But President Trump, as with many other things, is bolder and balder than most. Trump has considered, proposed…

Oct. 29, 2020

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Trump’s GDP numbers are still a bomb

President Trump has a new “greatest ever” to brag about, in the final days of the 2020 election. But his performance on economic growth is still the worst of any president during the last 50 years. Third-quarter GDP grew by 33.1% on an annualized…

Oct. 28, 2020

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How Trump lost moderate voters

This might sound hard to believe, but back in 2016, many voters viewed Donald Trump as the more moderate of the two candidates running for president. Sure, he was bombastic and combative, with nasty words for immigrants. But he was also a businessman…

Oct. 27, 2020

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If Biden wins, the glow will fade fast

If Joe Biden wins the presidency, he’ll do it with a one-off coalition of liberal Democrats, moderates of both parties, Independents and one-time Trump voters. That coalition will be under severe stress from the moment a Biden victory becomes…