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Amazon’s latest wave of job cuts is rippling far beyond its own campuses, feeding a broader surge in layoffs and hiring freezes that is testing worker confidence in the tech-driven economy. The company is eliminating 16,000 roles as it unwinds pandemic-era expansion and doubles down on artificial intelligence, a shift that is forcing other employers…
New York City’s new mayor is betting that the way out of a deep fiscal hole runs straight through the bank accounts of its wealthiest residents. Facing a projected $12 billion deficit and a fragile recovery in public services, Zohran Mamdani is pushing a steep tax increase on high earners as the centerpiece of his…
President Donald Trump’s threat to restore tariffs on South Korean imports to 25 percent has collided head‑on with Seoul’s aggressive regulatory campaign against a major U.S. tech firm, turning a technical trade dispute into a broader test of political leverage. What began as a fight over delayed ratification of a trade deal and new digital…
President Donald Trump’s decision to seize and rapidly sell Venezuelan oil after the military capture of President Nicolás Maduro has detonated a political fight over who really controls the money and whose interests are being served. What began as a dramatic foreign policy move is now colliding with basic questions of transparency, legality, and personal…
Investors entered 2026 riding a powerful bull market and a wave of optimism about earnings, but that confidence is colliding with a stark warning from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. After a year in which major indexes surged and valuations stretched, Powell has signaled that equity prices look expensive and that policy makers are in…
The race to build the infrastructure behind artificial intelligence has turned a handful of chip specialists into market barometers, and Nvidia sits squarely at the center of that storm. As demand for AI training and inference explodes, one of Nvidia’s closest partners has suddenly become a focal point for investors trying to gauge how far…
Mass layoffs have shifted from a background worry to a defining feature of early 2026, as job cuts at some of the country’s most recognizable employers collide with a workforce already exhausted by years of churn. The result is a climate in which workers are not only losing jobs at scale but also bracing for…
Neil Young has turned a long simmering political stance into a direct confrontation with some of the world’s biggest tech and telecom brands, accusing them of bankrolling President Donald Trump and what he calls “The Regime.” His latest moves target Apple and Verizon, but they sit inside a broader campaign to pull his money, his…
Tesla’s latest results delivered a jolt to a market that had grown used to relentless growth. Annual profit has dropped sharply, net income is down 17 percent, and investors are now fixated on what Elon Musk will promise next about self‑driving cars and humanoid robots. The numbers still beat some expectations, but the story behind…
Amazon is carving out a vast chunk of its white-collar workforce, eliminating 16,000 corporate roles in what it is openly framing as a crackdown on bureaucracy and a reset around artificial intelligence and efficiency. The cuts, which follow 14,000 job losses in October, extend a sweeping restructuring that is reshaping how one of the world’s…
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