Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
Elon Musk is reshaping how Tesla drivers pay for advanced driver assistance, scrapping the familiar Autopilot bundle and steering customers toward a pricier, subscription‑based future. Full Self‑Driving (Supervised) is shifting to a subscription‑only model, while core features like lane centering are being moved behind a monthly paywall, turning what used to be standard equipment into…
Quantum computing is shifting from lab experiment to commercial reality, and IonQ is one of the few pure-play names sitting at the center of that transition. With the company tying its roadmap to a projected $72 Billion opportunity by 2035 and pushing hardware toward error-corrected performance, I see a credible case that IonQ could evolve…
For years, “globalization” has been blamed for shuttered factories, stagnant wages, and political anger across the American heartland. Yet the data and the policy record point to a different story: the United States did not simply endure a global economic order designed elsewhere, it rewired that system around its own strengths. Rather than losing to…
Big technology and artificial intelligence firms are pouring unprecedented sums into Washington as President Donald Trump champions rapid deployment of new tools and data infrastructure. Lobbying that once focused on narrow regulatory skirmishes has swollen into a full‑scale campaign to shape the rules of the AI era, from data centers and energy use to liability…
The Magnificent Seven have gone from unstoppable market darlings to a source of unease as leadership narrows and volatility picks up. After a three-year run that reshaped the major indexes, investors are now weighing whether the latest pullback is a rare second chance or the start of a longer comedown. I see the answer depending…
Jamie Dimon has spent years cultivating a reputation as the ultimate establishment banker, the person corporate America calls when it wants a steady hand in a crisis. Now he is discovering what it looks like when that steady hand points directly at the sitting president and says no. The clash between the JPMorgan chief and…
Business leaders left the World Economic Forum in Davos this week with an unusually blunt message for Europe: fix the structural problems that are dragging on growth or watch investment, innovation and jobs flow to the United States and China. Their warning was not about a distant future but about decisions companies are making now…
After a powerful run in equities, Goldman Sachs is signaling that the next big move in markets may be a pullback rather than another melt-up. Yet even as it warns about the risk of a correction, the firm is still steering clients toward a handful of durable dividend payers that it believes can ride out…
Inflation is drifting higher again in the Federal Reserve’s preferred yardstick, complicating hopes that price pressures were gliding smoothly back to target. The personal consumption expenditures index showed prices rising at 2.8% in November, a reminder that the last mile in the inflation fight is proving stubborn even as growth and jobs remain resilient. That…
Rare earth miners have roared back into focus after a string of surprisingly strong operational updates, turning a once-speculative corner of the market into one of the week’s most closely watched trades. The latest leg higher has been driven less by hype and more by concrete production and project milestones, igniting a new wave of…
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