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The application from Ukraine to urgently join the EU turned heads, but its value is mostly in the message it sends to Ukrainians and to Moscow.

Extra Credit: How debt can mean a tax advantage for some and jail time for others MarketWatch 14 hrs ago EXTRA CREDIT Hello and welcome back to Extra Credit, a weekly look at the news through the lens of debt!  Video: Sen. Brown touts new child tax credit that could cut poverty rate in half (MSNBC) Sen. Brown touts new child tax credit that could cut poverty rate in half Replay Video UP NEXT This week we’re tackling the economic forces luring borrowers into debt and how a centuries’-old debt imposed on Haiti is still affecting the country today. But first up, how the rich use borrowin...

For over four years, Brexit watchers clung to his every word. And Michel Barnier came through with an early Christmas present on December 24, 2020, announcing the terms of the European Union's divorce from the UK had been agreed upon. Yet, what was one of his greatest accomplishments also heralded the end of his EU career. Barnier celebrated his 70th birthday in early January — a milestone that bars him from ever working for the European Commission again. But the timing, perhaps, couldn't have been better and Brexit — which he has deplored as a "lose-lose" situation — could well have pr...

Four years after a former government minister's new movement helped him defeat a plethora of higher-profile candidates to become president of France, his political brand has remained something of a mystery. Emmanuel Macron sold himself as both right and left politically and as someone who would fundamentally change a technocratic French government system. A former economy minister in the Socialist Party, he garnered support from all over the political spectrum when he launched his movement “En Marche”. He explained to a classroom of children in 2017 that he would try to take from both the...

The tax break on college debt cancellations in the COVID-19 relief package signed last week by President Biden has removed a potential roadblock to forgiving student loan debt: taxes.