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Thu Dec 11 2025

Daniel de Visé | Personal Finance Reporter

Good morning! It's Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money.

The Trump administration has hosted a parade of corporate supplicants, bending the knee, bearing gifts and crafting Trump-favored policies to curry favor with a president who openly threatens government reprisal against perceived enemies.

The glaring exception is Costco.

Do transgender rights end at the restroom door?

Here's a story about how the workplace bathroom became ground zero in the Trump administration's battle over gender identity.

Your Federal Reserve is working on affordability

In announcing another interest rate cut on Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell pledged to work hard at tamping down consumer costs. But will lower interest rates really help?

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Costco stayed out of politics. Then it sued Trump.

Customers walk in the parking lot outside a Costco store on December 02, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois.

Costco's lawsuit against the president's signature economic policy has sowed discord among its unusually loyal membership. Will shoppers defect?

Transgender activists, advocacy groups and allies gather at the Ohio Statehouse to protest Ohio's new transgender bathroom bill on Feb. 25, 2025.

Is the Trump bathroom ban coming to your office?

Gender identity or biological sex? The bathroom is the next battleground in national fight over transgender and LGBTQ+ rights in the workplace

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a press conference following the Federal Open Markets Committee meeting at the Federal Reserve on December 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Fed announced it has lowered interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point to a range of 3.5 percent to 3.75 percent in the third rate cut this year. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Powell says Fed is working on affordability. Will a rate cut help?

Powell said consumers face "really high" costs and said the Fed is "working hard" to make their lives more affordable. Will rate cuts help?

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell holds a press conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), at the U.S. Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 10, 2025.

Fed meeting recap: Cooling job market prompts another rate cut

The Federal Reserve ordered another quarter-point cut to its federal funds rate, but not without dissents among the rate-setting committee.

Businessperson scrolling on tablet.

401(k) changes coming in 2026 every worker needs to know about

The rules for these employer-sponsored retirement plans are once again being adjusted a bit to reflect inflation.

Ford Motor Co. will stop production of the Lincoln Corsair, seen here, at Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky later this year. Ford has not announced what vehicle will replace the small SUV.

Consumer Reports reveals 2026 top 10 auto brands: See the list

Ford's Lincoln was among Consumer Reports' top 10 brands to join affordable, mass market names like Subaru, Honda, Toyota and Hyundai. See the report card.

This illustration shows a shopping cart with items that could be affected by tariffs at a store in Annapolis, Maryland, on April 4, 2025.

Popular delivery service puts shoppers through 'pricing scheme': Report

An investigation by a group of consumer groups has found that Instacart grocery items simultaneously checked at the same store can vary by 23%.

A wider view of the bar on the first floor of BlueHouse.

Inside JetBlue's first-ever lounge that looks like a NYC apartment

USA TODAY got a sneek peak of JetBlue's first lounge, BlueHouse, at JFK Airport in New York.

2018: Fingerlings

Most popular Christmas toys since the year 2000

See the most popular Christmas toys over the last 25 years from a list gathered by curators at the National Museum of Play.

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