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Who doesn't like lower credit card interest rates?
I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles.
This week we started to get quarterly profit reports.
As is tradition, banks are early in that lineup and profits have generally been great this week.
But within that industry, there's concern about President Trump's plan to try to cap credit card interest rates at 10 percent if they were to get through Congress.
Christopher Lowe is chief economist at FHN Financial.
By the way, we should stipulate this is not going to sail through a Republican-led Congress.
There are lobbyists for banks with friends in Congress, and it's going to be a vigorous discussion.
Or at least the rhetoric of populism at a time in which the key word affordability is front and center.
Chris Lowe, chief economist at FHN Financial.
The White House and the governors of some mid-Atlantic states today are expected to announce a plan to cap energy prices by, in effect, making power-hungry tech companies shoulder the cost of new power plants.
Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genzer has more.
Foreign visitors to 11 of the most popular national parks in the U.S.
will have to pay a lot more to get in, up to $100 a head more.