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Automotive analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence
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Kevin Tynan
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Which Way, L.A.?
World’s Biggest Auto Maker Caught Perpetrating a World-class Scam Volkswagen recently surpassed Toyota as the world's largest maker of automobiles. That includes cars fitted with so-called "clean diesel" engines -- marketed not just as being green but also as being "fun to drive." It turns out that those two things don't go together after all, and Volkswagen has admitted to cheating to make it seem like they do.
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Who's to blame for the opioid crisis? Some of the lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are now going after Big Pharma. It’s all about the deadly epidemic of opioid use. Are the drug companies to blame? What about the users? Later, on today’s Talking Point: making sense of Britain’s upset election.
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White House budget proposal slashes and burns President Trump's first budget request is considered dead on arrival in Congress — a familiar development in Capitol Hill. We hear what it reveals about the priorities of the new administration. What's likely to die… and what might survive?
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How was the trip? President Trump's travels got less fun as he went from the Middle East to Europe.
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The Trump agenda: where's the beef? President Trump says big things are happening. After celebrating a House bill on health care, he doesn’t yet have Senate agreement. With James Comey’s public testimony scheduled tomorrow, the President today tweeted his selection of a new FBI Director. Is the Chief Executive all style and no substance? Later, terror attacks in Iran and conflicting claims about who’s behind them.