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Dodd-frank, blaming regulations for preventing banks from lending money to businesses. but u.s. banks have more cash than ever. banks actually raked in record profits last year and paid out $102 billion in dividends. that's just shy of an all-time high. dividends are the money that companies pay shareholders, and bank dividends crumbled during the financial crisis. they've grown since then, even after congress passed dodd-frank in 2010. there's nothing evil about dividends. in fact, the payments are a good sign of financial health for the companies. high dividends boost stock prices, and the s...

Why states like texas and north carolina and hawaii and chicago and illinois, so on and so forth are in the process of trying to raise wages for $15. there's not a single city in this country where you can live for less than $15 an hour. >> tucker: i'm not disagreeing with you. let me re-ask my question. there was a harvard study showing low skilled immigration, legal or i for american workers by about $402 billion a year. if you have a lot of people willing to work for less, wages do not go up. they go down. and yet that's an obvious point. i think you know it since you represent a labor unio...

So forth are in the process of trying to raise wages for $15. there's not a single city in this country where you can live for less than $15 an hour. >> tucker: i'm not disagreeing with you. let me re-ask my question. there was a harvard study showing low skilled immigration, legal or illegal lowered wages for american workers by about $402 billion a year. if you have a lot of people willing to work for less, wages do not go up. they go down. and yet that's an obvious point. i think you know it since you represent a labor union but you are taking the chamber of commerce position. because it sa...

That it wouldn't directly compete lens breitbart. the trump administration may now use a new maneuver to better negotiate trade deals. make the trade deficit look worse than it is, that's the plan and centered around reexports, according to "the wall street journal." those are parts made from cars and machinery. that would skyrocket and give president trump pay bigger bargaining chip when they as a results bilateral trade negotiations, especially with mexico. here's a look at where things stand right now. the total u.s. trade deficit in 2016 was $502 billion. means the u.s. imports more good...

Negotiate better trade deals. make the trade deficit look worse than it actually is. this change would center around so-called reexports according to a "wall street journal" report. now, those are products assembled in the u.s. and made from parts that have been brought into the country like cars and machinery. if those exports are removed from the trade balance the deficit would skyrocket. that could president trump a better bargaining chip. the total trade deficit in 2016, $502 billion. meaning the u.s. imports much more in goods and services than it exports. by country the biggest trade def...