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[View this email in your browser]( [The Clock Is Ticking on a Government Shutdown: 5 Things You Need to Know]( As Congress prepares to leave town for another break, the Senate has been focused on the effort to confirm (or deny) Neil Gorsuch as a justice of the Supreme Court. The GOP House is desperate to show some progress on the Republican promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. But the urgent matter of making sure... [Read more...]( [Like The Clock Is Ticking on a Government Shutdown: 5 Things You Need to Know on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [Google Plus One Button]( [Nearly a Dozen States Are Suffering From ‘Chronic Budget Stress’]( No state has defaulted on its public debt since the 1930s. Despite many near misses more recently, the possibility of any state going under financially is remote at best. Yet a senior... [Read more...]( [Like Nearly a Dozen States Are Suffering From ‘Chronic Budget Stress’ on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [Google Plus One Button]( Sponsor Content [[Banned for 82 years] Now OPEN to Regular Investors]( For the past 82 years, you've likely missed out on some of the biggest winners in the history of investing. Businesses like GoPro, which would have turned a $100 stake into about $133,000... Airbnb, where a $100 stake from 2009 is now worth $797,000... and Uber, which turned $100 into $1.25 million over the past 7 years. But you don't have to miss out anymore! [Click here to see why.]( [Will Unwinding the Fed’s $4.5 Trillion Balance Sheet Kill the Bull Market?]( Over the last decade, investors have grown accustomed to a Federal Reserve that constantly coddled them, allayed their fears and did everything possible to support the financial markets and... [Read more...]( [Like Will Unwinding the Fed’s $4.5 Trillion Balance Sheet Kill the Bull Market? on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [Google Plus One Button]( [The Worst States for Property Taxes – and the Best]( Pity the poor residents of New Jersey: Not only do they have to deal with the unbridled disdain of their neighbors in New York and Pennsylvania and that strange odor along the New Jersey... [Read more...]( [Like The Worst States for Property Taxes – and the Best on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [Google Plus One Button]( [China Is Now the Top Buyer of US Oil Exports]( While OPEC is implementing production cuts, U.S. crude oil exports are steadily growing and winning customers even in China. In February, China was the biggest buyer of U.S. light crude oil... [Read more...]( [Like China Is Now the Top Buyer of US Oil Exports on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [Google Plus One Button]( [Share]( [Tweet]( [Forward to Friend]( Copyright © 2017 The Fiscal Times, All rights reserved. You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed at our website, thefiscaltimes.com. [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences](