Category: Markets and Macro

The Congressional Budget Office has warned that federal debt is on track to reach record levels, even as the national total has already climbed past $37 trillion. At the same time, the CBO’s latest outlook links former President Donald Trump’s policy agenda to a higher 10-year deficit, adding $1.4 trillion to an already large shortfall…

Tesla’s push into solar is often treated as a side project to its electric vehicles, yet the data suggests it could be the company’s next serious profit engine. With U.S. solar installations climbing and policy still favoring clean power buildout, an aggressive expansion in panels, roofs, and home batteries could justify tens of billions of…

Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott is betting that a targeted shake-up of how the city taxes and collects on homes can ease pressure on residents without blowing a hole in the budget. With the Fiscal 2026 real property tax rate sitting at $2.248 per $100 of assessed value, the city carries one of the heaviest…

Ford Motor is preparing investors for a painful near-term bill on electric vehicles, even as it insists the math will work later this decade. The company expects its dedicated Model e business to lose about $7 billion across 2024 and 2025, based on guidance for a roughly $5 billion loss in 2024 and a smaller,…

China’s car industry is no longer just catching up to Detroit and Tokyo; it is rewriting the hierarchy that once defined global auto power. As China’s factories push output and exports to new records, BYD has surged past Ford Motor Company in global sales, overturning long‑held assumptions about who leads and who follows. The collision…

The Trump administration’s push to roll back greenhouse gas rules is being sold as a win for business, but the details tell a different story. Scrapping the legal basis for federal climate regulation while states and courts move in the opposite direction could create a maze of overlapping obligations. That kind of confusion rarely stays…

California built its global reputation on climate ambition, yet Governor Gavin Newsom’s latest spending blueprint sharply pares back the state’s environmental muscle just as climate impacts intensify. The plan trims core climate and natural resources programs, then leans on one-time fixes and future borrowing to keep marquee initiatives alive on paper. The result is a…

Vanguard’s Total International Stock ETF has just delivered the kind of performance that forces investors to rethink long-held home bias habits. The Vanguard Total International Stock ETF, known by its ticker VXUS, has returned 38.4% over the past year, more than doubling the 15.0% gain from Vanguard’s broad U.S. tracker VTI and leaving the S&P…

Personal bankruptcies are climbing again in the United States, and the latest numbers are not a blip. New data highlighted by Rep. Brendan Boyle shows filings rising to their highest levels in years under President Donald Trump, with an 11 percent jump in a single year that added roughly 55,000 more cases to the system….

Nikki Haley is turning her party’s favorite talking point on its head, arguing that the Trump economy is not the success story Republicans keep selling but a strain that leaves families without a sense of progress. Her warning is blunt: if voters do not start to feel genuine hope about their own finances, the GOP…