The Business News Headlines and More 21 April 2026

Retail sales were way up the best in three years and what took most of your money? Gasoline and that is where we'll start this evening. This is The Business News Headlines for Tuesday the 21st day of April, thanks for being with us. In other news, Kevin Warsh the Trump nominee to lead the Federal Reserve talked about rates and President Trump. We’ll share a brief story about the new CEO of Apple. In more tech news the Attorney General of Florida is opening a probe into Chat GPT and why. Uber is headed to court in California and we’ll share why. Starbucks is opening a US office in…Nashville. We’ll check the numbers in The Wall Street Report and FedEx and UPS have started to process to get tariff refunds. For the conversation you’ll meet my Bride, Georgie Libbie as we talk about the big business of…camping. Yes, camping where over 81 million Americans added 70 billion dollars to the national economy. But, first the news.

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