Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
Minnesota farmers are warning that trade-driven losses to U.S. agriculture could reach a scale that dwarfs the federal government’s latest relief effort, a $12 billion direct payment program announced on December 10, 2025. The gap between the size of the aid and the scope of the damage farmers say they face raises a pointed question:…
California’s richest residents are scrambling for a new kind of exit strategy, one that hinges on where they spent a single winter morning. With a one-time wealth tax aimed at billionaires advancing in Sacramento, high net worth Californians are racing to establish homes in other states before a key residency cutoff locks in who will…
Two copper battles, one in the Arizona desert and another in the tropical lowlands of Panama, are converging to force a reckoning over how the United States secures the metal that powers everything from electric vehicles to data centers. The fight is not just about mining permits or export licenses. It is about whether the…
Tesla closed out fiscal year 2025 with an aggressive push to move inventory, deploying a suite of sales incentives that tested the boundaries between short-term volume gains and long-term margin health. The company’s unusual decision, reported by The Guardian, to publish analyst delivery consensus on the final day of the year underscored how high the…
Residential electricity costs across the United States have been climbing steadily, and a growing share of that demand traces back to data centers powering everything from cloud storage to artificial intelligence. The question embedded in rising utility bills is whether the companies behind those massive server farms can be forced to absorb the infrastructure costs…
American grocery shoppers are facing a painful reality at the checkout line: the bird flu crisis has sent egg prices on a trajectory that could see them jump by double digits this year, while chocolate costs have already climbed sharply in early 2026. The broader food price picture remains relatively stable, but specific staples are…
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Moscow has still not received a single formal response to Vladimir Putin’s proposal to pay 1 billion dollars to join Donald Trump’s Board of Peace for Gaza reconstruction. The offer hinges on unblocking frozen Russian assets so the money can be transferred as a “permanent membership” contribution. Putin unveiled the…
Rick Harrison of “Pawn Stars” fame recently warned Fox News viewers about what he calls a “brutal” silver shortage, describing a “structural supply deficit” where industrial demand from tech and energy sectors now outpaces mining supply. His stark assessment aligns with fresh data from the Silver Institute showing 2024 mine production reached 819.7 million ounces…
The SEC’s climate disclosure rule took effect in March 2024, even as earlier Trump-era regulators worked to roll back core federal climate findings. That clash between expanding securities rules and shrinking environmental rules has left companies navigating a patchwork of expectations while still being judged on quarterly earnings. Many CEOs now face three practical questions:…
Inflation cooled in January as consumer prices barely moved, with the Consumer Price Index rising just 0.2% from December and 2.4% from a year earlier, according to the latest government data released on February 13, 2026. That marks a clear step down from the stickier readings that worried households and policymakers through much of 2025,…