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Ben Werschkul May 6, 2021, 8:37 AM On Wednesday, the Biden administration backed waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines, a move meant to boost production and ensure more of the world becomes inoculated. The news came in the middle of a Yahoo Finance interview with Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. "Fantastic!” she said upon learning the news, raising her hands in the air in a double fist pump (at the 18 minute mark in the video above). “I'm delighted." The move reversed the Biden administration’s stance and came after pressure from liberal Democrats like W...

Charlie Munger: 'Bernie Sanders has basically won' on income inequality Max Zahn Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B) Vice Chairman Charlie Munger on Saturday declared progressive Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) the victor in the nation's political fight over income inequality. The hot economy and loose monetary policy will end up narrowing the nation's wealth gap, Munger predicted. Popular Searches "With everything boomed up so high and interest rates so low, what's going to happen is the millennial generation is going to have a hell of a time getting rich compared to our ...

My letter to Xi Jinping on China's cotton problem Read full article Oops! Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds during the closing session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, March 11, 2021. China's ceremonial legislature on Thursday endorsed the ruling Communist Party's latest move to tighten control over Hong Kong by reducing the role of its public in picking the territory's leaders. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil) Dear President Xi Jinping, I’m writing to you respectfully as a citizen of the United States and of the world. In 2016 I wrote a...

Democrat Opposed to the PRO Act Was Showered With Cash From Amazon Executives Sen. Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia and Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, holds a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 14, 2021. SAUL LOEB / POOL / AFP via Getty Images By Tactics used by Amazon to defeat the union organizing drive at the company’s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse have highlighted the need for Democrats to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act). The legislation is a sweeping proposal that would implement the strongest protections for workers si...

Stimulus checks: Government officials brace for a wave of scams Ben Werschkul As Americans await their latest round of stimulus checks, scammers are already working overtime to steal them. The payments — which could begin arriving as soon as this weekend — are particularly easy targets. "It's sort of unfathomable," says Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter. She joined Andy Serwer for a Yahoo Finance Presents interview Friday and laid out her concerns for a new wave of scams expected in the weeks ahead following the enactment of the $1.9 trillion econ...