Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
Houston’s shale patch is staring at a fresh warning sign as Nine Energy Service Inc. tumbles into court protection, the latest energy player to be pulled under by a heavy debt load and a cooling drilling cycle. The Houston-based oilfield contractor is using Chapter 11 to slash hundreds of millions of dollars from its balance…
Tesla once promised a battery supplier a Cybertruck jackpot worth $2.9 billion. Instead, production delays and shifting priorities left that contract worth just $7,386, erasing more than 99.9% of its value and turning a paper fortune into a cautionary tale. The collapse shows how volatile the electric vehicle supply chain can be when a single…
The Biden administration’s 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles is supposed to shield Detroit and its union jobs from a wave of low cost imports. Yet the most telling verdict on that strategy may have come not from a politician, but from a Wall Street Journal columnist who spent two weeks with a Xiaomi sedan…
The Federal Reserve is edging toward a path that could leave it easing policy while many of its peers are either on hold or turning more restrictive. That divergence is at the heart of Nomura’s latest calls, which argue that the United States is heading for further rate cuts in 2026 even as Asia and…
Donald Trump has not just embraced crypto as a policy priority, he has personally tied his fortune and his presidency to it. His family’s digital asset empire, centered on World Liberty Financial and a web of foreign deals, now sits on top of a regulatory regime his own appointees control. If this latest conflict of…
The union of SpaceX and xAI has been framed as a sci‑fi play to put artificial intelligence in orbit, but the real story is far more earthbound. By folding a cash‑hungry chatbot startup into a highly profitable rocket company at a combined valuation of $1.25 trillion, Elon Musk is effectively using his strongest asset to…
The revelation that a powerful United Arab Emirates royal poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family’s crypto venture has detonated a fresh political storm around President Donald Trump. At the center is World Liberty Financial, a digital asset company tied directly to the Trump Family, and a secretive stake that critics say…
Bitcoin traders are increasingly convinced that official inflation gauges are lagging reality, and that the real-time data they watch is already flashing disinflation. In their view, the gap between government statistics and alternative indicators is not a rounding error but a regime shift that could reshape Federal Reserve policy and fuel the next leg of…
Chinese electric vehicles are no longer a distant competitive threat, they are already reshaping the global auto market with prices and technology that U.S. manufacturers struggle to match. If Washington does not move beyond piecemeal tariffs and fragmented rules, the result will not just be cheaper cars for American drivers, but a hollowed out industrial…
Economists are increasingly blunt about how aggressively the wealthy work to keep money out of sight and out of reach of tax authorities. Their research points to a web of offshore accounts, shell companies and bespoke tax vehicles that quietly drain public coffers while swelling private fortunes. At the same time, the United States is…