Category: Markets and Macro

Oil’s next big move may not be another spike, but a slide that catches producers, investors, and even drivers off guard. Charles Schwab strategist Liz Ann Sonders is now flagging the risk that crude could tumble in late 2026 and into 2027, a view that lines up with increasingly bearish forecasts from major banks and…

America’s middle class is not just feeling squeezed, it is objectively shrinking and losing ground in the national economy. The share of adults who once sat comfortably between poverty and affluence has eroded, while costs for basics like housing, health care and child care have raced ahead of paychecks. The numbers now show a country…

Across kitchen tables and group chats, a familiar complaint keeps surfacing: official numbers insist the economy is improving, yet many households feel squeezed. The disconnect between upbeat data and lived experience is not a mirage, it reflects how statistics, markets and policy filter through to very different realities for workers, renters and borrowers. I want…

The United States is reshaping its global footprint on three fronts at once, moving militarily and financially in Venezuela, pressing an audacious bid for influence over Greenland, and still talking up the prospect of the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaching 50,000. Taken together, these moves reveal a White House that sees energy security, Arctic access,…

Bill Gates has quietly become one of the most powerful landowners in the United States, controlling a patchwork of fields and orchards that add up to roughly one out of every 4,000 acres in the country. His stake, which various reports put at about 270,000 to 275,000 acres of U.S. farmland, has turned a once…

Robert Kiyosaki is turning up the volume on a warning he has repeated for years: the next phase of the global downturn will not just dent portfolios, it could erase jobs on a historic scale. As 2026 approaches, he is tying that risk to what he calls the biggest economic and technological shift in history,…

The market gauge Warren Buffett once called “probably the best single measure” of overall valuation is flashing one of its loudest warnings in six decades. The so‑called Buffett indicator, which compares the total value of U.S. stocks to the size of the economy, has surged to levels that historically preceded painful comedowns for investors. With…

Mark Spitznagel has spent years warning that the current boom in United States Stocks is less a victory lap and more a prelude to a brutal reckoning. He now says he does “expect an 80% crash” in equities, even as he allows that markets may lurch higher first. I see his message as less a…

President Donald Trump has declared that the United States will effectively control how Venezuela’s vast oil reserves reach global markets, turning a long running sanctions regime into an open ended experiment in managed energy flows. The move raises immediate questions about who will really benefit from the redirected revenue, how it will reshape power in…

Drivers across the United States are starting 2026 with a rare kind of sticker shock at the pump, the pleasant kind. The national average for regular gasoline has slipped to levels not seen since before the pandemic-era price spikes, giving households a small but tangible boost just as holiday bills arrive. Gas is now hovering…