Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
U.S. Steel’s chief executive is trying to reassure workers, investors and Washington that the company still calls its own shots, even after President Donald Trump secured an unprecedented “golden share” in the storied manufacturer. In a recent television interview, Steel CEO David Burritt argued that the special government stake does not give the White House…
Nuclear power is moving from the sidelines back to the center of the energy conversation as governments, data center operators, and utilities scramble for reliable, low carbon electricity. That shift is creating a new class of potential winners in the stock market, led by NuScale’s small modular reactors and a handful of established nuclear players….
Monthly income investors have gravitated to JPMorgan Equity Premium Income, or JEPI, as a core holding, but its payout is no longer the only game in town. With option-based strategies proliferating, a new crop of funds is offering richer yields and, in some cases, better participation in equity upside. I see three monthly dividend ETFs…
Warnings of a 2026 financial reckoning are getting louder, and they are increasingly tied to President Donald Trump’s own policy choices. A group of high profile economists now argue that a historic bubble in stocks, real estate and debt is colliding with what one of them bluntly calls an “ignorant” approach to trade and borrowing…
Wall Street is once again piling into the so‑called TACO trade, betting that President Donald Trump will talk tough on tariffs but ultimately pull back before real economic damage hits. After a bruising stretch when that assumption failed and tariff threats turned into actual policy, traders are testing the same thesis with fresh money and…
The four day workweek has become a kind of secular religion in tech and finance circles, a promise that artificial intelligence will hand white collar workers back their time. Yet the chief executive of the world’s largest workspace provider is now pushing hard against that optimism, arguing that the office of the future will still…
The federal government is dangling Silicon Valley level salaries to lure technologists into a new two‑year tour of duty, then openly positioning that experience as a springboard into companies like Amazon and Meta. The Tech Force initiative promises up to $195,000 a year for early and mid‑career specialists who agree to help overhaul creaky public…
Nvidia has spent the last two years as the market’s defining artificial intelligence trade, yet its share price has cooled enough that the stock now trades at its lowest valuation in roughly a year. For investors trying to decide whether that reset is a warning sign or a rare entry point, the most useful guide…
President Donald Trump’s threat to slap tariffs on European allies over a stalled bid to acquire Greenland has triggered a market jolt that goes far beyond another trade skirmish. The reaction has laid bare how a United States carrying roughly $34 trillion in debt is far more vulnerable to sudden shifts in investor confidence than…
President Donald Trump is signaling that if the Supreme Court clips his tariff authority, he will not retreat from aggressive trade measures but instead move quickly to restore pressure through new tools. As the justices delay a ruling on his existing levies, the White House is quietly sketching fallback options that could keep duties in…