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Investor’s Business Daily announced the following changes in schedule to integrate with its pre-election polling.

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In a year when public anxiety is high and respect for the political establishment is low, populist ideas have taken hold of both major political parties. On trade, drug prices, Wall Street and many other issues, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are playing to anger and resentment, with both saying the system is rigged in one way or another and promising to "take on" powerful forces they say are behind the struggles of American families.

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Four major news outlets all publish the same story over the weekend flaying Donald Trump about his veracity. They all happen to get published after the Clinton campaign called on the press to highlight the issue just before their first presidential debate. Then these same publications say it was all just a coincidence. Right.

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The most charitable reading of the events over the weekend is that the campaign purposely misled the American public about Hillary Clinton's current medical condition. The less charitable — and more likely — reading is that Clinton is still hiding a far more serious health issue. Either way, the public deserves a full accounting before November.

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While a less-than-expected 151,000 new jobs were created in August, the unemployment rate remained at 4.9% -- a level that Federal Reserve and Wall Street economists have deemed "full employment." Sorry, it ain't so.

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Neither candidate can "win" this presidential election, but either could lose. Both candidates' inability to pull away from the other following the conventions has revealed America's 2016 political puzzle. Each's best hope is to win by default, by making the other candidate this election's pivotal issue.

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The IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index dropped 1.7 points, or 3.5%, in September, posting a reading of 46.7 vs. 48.4 in August.  The index is 0.4 points below its 12-month average of 47.1, 2.3 points above its reading of 44.4 in December 2007 when the economy entered the last recession, and 2.1 points below its all-time average of 48.8.

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In the days when student loan debt was less burdensome and more manageable, the concerns of most graduates did not extend much further than its impact on his or her credit score.

However, as the levels of student debt have risen steadily over the past few years to astronomical heights, many millennials with debt are facing burdens that go beyond mere indebtedness.

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Buoyed by an array of recent positive developments in the U.S. economy, such as a steady growth in hiring, declining gas prices, and strong gains in the stock market, Americans’ intent to acquire new vehicles accelerated sharply in August, indicating that momentum for new vehicle sales will hit the gas pedal and grow significantly in the near future, according to this month’s reading of the Auto Demand Index.

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If Hillary Clinton and her supporters figured that the email scandal had finally been put to rest when the FBI recommended that no charges be filed, they got several bits of unwelcome news this week. Not least of which is a new poll showing Hillary's support sagging in the wake of the FBI's decision.

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Unless something earth shattering happens between now and November, the public’s choice for president will be Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Has there ever been a better case for cutting back the size and scope of the federal government?

Both candidates have huge negative ratings among the public. The latest IBD/TIPP poll finds Clinton’s unfavorable rating of 61% is essentially tied with Trump’s 63%.

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Looking for one of the best online brokers? Here’s a tip: Low commissions alone may not get you the best broker for your needs.

Each year Investor’s Business Daily and polling partner TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence ask thousands of investors to rate their online stockbrokers on the features and services that investors themselves say are most important.

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The venerated Gallup Poll took a beating this year for being such an outlier in its predictions of who would win the presidency, and the New York Times's Nate Silver has now served up further evidence that the firm has lost its mojo. Silver analyzed the results obtained by about two dozen top polling firms that ran multiple surveys in the last three weeks of the campaign and then ranked the pollsters based on their accuracy: Gallup came in dead last, with an average error of 7.2 points compared to the actual results.