Category: Markets and Macro

The Trump administration is turning the federal government into a direct shareholder in a growing list of U.S. companies, from rare earth miners and chipmakers to defense contractors and housing finance giants. The strategy is framed as a way to secure supply chains and outcompete rivals, but it also hands the White House new levers…

President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to cancel the 25 percent penalty tariff on Indian goods tied to Russian oil purchases marks a sharp turn in a dispute that had threatened to spill over into a broader trade rupture. The move, delivered through an executive order after an interim trade framework with New Delhi, recasts a…

President Donald Trump is promising that 2026 will be unlike anything the United States has ever experienced, pairing warnings about upheaval with confident predictions of a long economic “miracle.” His message is equal parts alarm and opportunity: brace for disruption, but also position yourself to ride what he casts as a generational boom. The real…

The S&P 500’s communication services heavyweights just delivered the kind of quarter portfolio managers dream about: a perfect run of earnings beats across all seven index constituents. The sweep caps a broader reporting season in which profits are rising across most sectors, but the communications cohort stands out for pairing double digit growth with visible…

Grocery aisles across the United States have turned into sticker-shock zones, with shoppers watching familiar staples jump in price from one week to the next. What looks like a sudden crisis at the checkout is actually the visible edge of a deeper storm, where climate shocks, global grain tensions and aggressive trade policy are converging…

Elon Musk has never been shy about apocalyptic warnings, but his latest is unusually stark. He now insists the United States is “1,000%” headed for bankruptcy unless artificial intelligence and robots turbocharge growth fast enough to outrun the federal government’s swelling interest bill. With the national debt at $38.56 trillion and annual interest costs already…

Big Tech is preparing to pour roughly $650 billion into artificial intelligence this year, a single-year outlay that now eclipses what the United States spent on sending humans to the Moon. Project Apollo cost $25.8 billion between 1960 and 1973, which translates to hundreds of billions of dollars in today’s terms, yet the current AI…

President Donald Trump is betting that a new government drug website can turn one of the country’s most painful household expenses into a political win. After promising that Americans would “save a fortune” on prescriptions, he is now tying that pledge to a broader message that his administration is putting cash back in people’s pockets…

The Federal Reserve is quietly running some of the largest losses in its history, and Scott Bessent is arguing that those red numbers are not just an accounting quirk but a political and economic problem. He says the central bank is effectively bleeding around $100 billion a year with almost no direct oversight, and that…

Jamie Dimon is not known for hyperbole, so when he says a single “red-hot” asset could “easily” climb another 131% in value, investors pay attention. The longtime banking chief is pointing to a market that has already surged, yet he argues the move may only be halfway done. I want to unpack what he is…