Category: Markets and Macro

Any political opening in Venezuela is instantly read through the lens of oil markets, with traders imagining a wave of new barrels that could cool prices and ease pressure on consumers. The reality is more constrained: even a friendlier regime and looser sanctions would collide with years of underinvestment, decayed infrastructure and a transformed global…

For two centuries, mainstream economics has promised that abstract models and free markets would deliver prosperity, stability and even peace. Instead, the world is living with spiraling inequality, ecological breakdown and a politics warped by financial power. The story of how a stylized theory of trade and human behavior escaped the seminar room and captured…

The largest transfer of private fortunes in modern America is beginning to collide with a generation that already feels shortchanged by housing costs, student debt, and stagnant wages. As trillions in assets move from older Americans to their heirs, the question is not only who gets what, but whether that shift will harden class lines…

Electric vehicles are no longer a niche experiment. Around the world, battery-powered cars are moving into the mainstream, reshaping auto markets and forcing legacy manufacturers to rethink their futures. Yet even as global sales accelerate, the North American market is cooling, creating a widening gap between the United States and regions that are treating electrification…

President Donald Trump’s decision to slap a $100,000 fee on each new H-1B worker hired from abroad has turned a long-running policy debate into a direct hit on the business model of India’s biggest IT outsourcers. The new price tag threatens to squeeze margins, unsettle investors and force companies like Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys…

Tariffs that President Donald Trump has championed as a tool of economic leverage are now being framed by his critics as a direct tax on consumers, with Democrats estimating that the typical household has already paid roughly $1,200 more since he returned to the White House. The fight is no longer just about trade balances…

The United States is living through an economy that defies the usual labels. Growth is neither roaring ahead nor collapsing, yet households and investors are wrestling with a mix of resilience, strain, and uncertainty that feels unfamiliar. Instead of a classic boom or bust, the data and daily experience point to something more uneven and,…

Donald Trump came into office promising to slash Americans’ energy costs, vowing that prices for power and fuel would fall dramatically within a year. Twelve months on, the picture is more complicated: some benchmarks have eased from recent peaks, but household bills remain high and nowhere near half of what families were paying before. Energy…

President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs are no longer a distant policy debate, they are reshaping trade flows, rattling boardrooms and straining household budgets from Baltimore to Bangladesh. What began as a bid to reset the terms of global commerce has hardened into a system of higher barriers, retaliatory measures and legal uncertainty that is now…

The Federal Reserve has now cut interest rates for the third straight meeting, but the decision was anything but unanimous. Three officials broke ranks, arguing that with inflation still running above target, easing policy again risks repeating past mistakes rather than locking in the progress already made. Their dissents offer a rare window into the…