Category: Markets and Macro

Electric vehicles were sold to the public as a climate solution that would eventually pay for itself. Instead, the policy architecture around them has shifted costs onto taxpayers who may never park an EV in their driveway, while showering generous benefits on higher income buyers. Senator Deb Fischer is now putting that imbalance at the…

The United States job market is entering 2026 looking oddly calm on the surface and deeply fragile underneath. Hiring has slowed to a crawl, layoffs are uneven but mounting in key sectors, and both workers and executives are acting as if a hard freeze is already here. If these warning signs intensify, the country could…

California’s latest fight over how to tax extreme wealth has turned into a personal and ideological brawl between one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent investors and one of its most visible progressive politicians. Vinod Khosla, the billionaire venture capitalist, has blasted Representative Ro Khanna’s support for a new billionaire levy as a “commie” tax and…

Factories were supposed to be the big winners of Donald Trump’s second term. He vowed that steep tariffs on imports would make foreign goods more expensive, push production back onto U.S. soil, and send blue-collar employment surging. Instead, the country is watching manufacturing payrolls shrink again, even as the White House insists the strategy is…

Donald Trump entered office promising that grocery bills would fall as soon as he took the oath, casting himself as the president who could roll back the price shock of the early 2020s. One year in, the supermarket checkout tells a different story, with food costs still climbing even as overall inflation cools. The gap…

The investor who famously anticipated the 2008 financial crisis is warning that the United States is drifting into a far more dangerous phase, driven by a new mix of debt, politics and speculative excess. His concern is not just another recession, but what he describes as a breakdown in the way the country’s money and…

Silver’s surge to unprecedented levels has collided with a fierce political argument over the strength of the U.S. dollar. As the metal smashes through historic price barriers and gold races toward its own milestone, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is pointing a finger squarely at what he calls a destabilized currency regime in Washington. In his…

The phrase “Sell America” has become a lightning rod for anxious savers, and the reaction is showing up in bullion dealers’ order books. As stocks churn and political rhetoric heats up, everyday investors are racing into gold and silver, turning a long-running metals rally into a full‑blown fear‑of‑missing‑out stampede. I see a classic late‑cycle pattern…

Global markets lurched lower after President Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on eight European nations in a dispute tied to Greenland, wiping out risk appetite in a matter of hours. Equities from New York to Frankfurt sold off, safe-haven trades roared back to life and currency markets swung as investors tried to price the prospect…

America’s meat habit quietly runs through a single corporate giant that now hauls in more than $50 Billion a year in sales, yet many shoppers could not pick its name out of a lineup. The company sits behind drive‑thru chicken sandwiches, supermarket burger packs, and frozen nuggets, turning the country’s appetite into one of the…