Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
The Federal Reserve is edging toward a path that could leave it easing policy while many of its peers are either on hold or turning more restrictive. That divergence is at the heart of Nomura’s latest calls, which argue that the United States is heading for further rate cuts in 2026 even as Asia and…
Donald Trump has not just embraced crypto as a policy priority, he has personally tied his fortune and his presidency to it. His family’s digital asset empire, centered on World Liberty Financial and a web of foreign deals, now sits on top of a regulatory regime his own appointees control. If this latest conflict of…
The revelation that a powerful United Arab Emirates royal poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family’s crypto venture has detonated a fresh political storm around President Donald Trump. At the center is World Liberty Financial, a digital asset company tied directly to the Trump Family, and a secretive stake that critics say…
Bitcoin traders are increasingly convinced that official inflation gauges are lagging reality, and that the real-time data they watch is already flashing disinflation. In their view, the gap between government statistics and alternative indicators is not a rounding error but a regime shift that could reshape Federal Reserve policy and fuel the next leg of…
Chinese electric vehicles are no longer a distant competitive threat, they are already reshaping the global auto market with prices and technology that U.S. manufacturers struggle to match. If Washington does not move beyond piecemeal tariffs and fragmented rules, the result will not just be cheaper cars for American drivers, but a hollowed out industrial…
Economists are increasingly blunt about how aggressively the wealthy work to keep money out of sight and out of reach of tax authorities. Their research points to a web of offshore accounts, shell companies and bespoke tax vehicles that quietly drain public coffers while swelling private fortunes. At the same time, the United States is…
American households are quietly rewriting their budgets as food inflation eats up a larger share of every paycheck. New data shows that even as headline inflation cools, the cost of feeding a family is still rising fast enough to force trade offs on everything from dining out to debt payments. The shift is subtle but…
After months of public sparring over tariffs, oil purchases and geopolitical alignment, Washington and New Delhi have finally locked in a sweeping trade pact that resets one of the world’s most consequential economic relationships. The agreement slashes key duties, ties market access to energy choices and signals that both sides were unwilling to let a…
Corporate leaders keep invoking artificial intelligence as a job killer, yet the official numbers still show a labor market that looks more bent than broken. The gap between the rhetoric and the data is widening, and into that space has crept a new suspicion: that some executives are using AI as a convenient story to…
Across the United States, the promise of keeping every dollar of your paycheck has turned nine no‑income‑tax states into migration magnets. Yet as more workers eye these destinations, the question is whether skipping state income tax really leaves people ahead or simply shifts the bill into less obvious corners of their budgets. I see a…