Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
Housing affordability is finally starting to budge in the right direction, but the arithmetic behind that shift is unforgiving. To get back to a world where typical families can buy typical homes, someone on the other side of the ledger has to give up something real, whether it is price gains, profit margins, or policy…
Tesla heads into 2026 as one of the market’s most polarizing stocks, with its valuation now tied as much to software and autonomy hopes as to electric vehicle sales. Wall Street’s latest calls sketch a path that is far from the explosive rallies of earlier years, but still leaves room for sharp moves in either…
Investors who rode the 2025 surge in U.S. stocks have a familiar name to thank for some of the boldest calls behind that move. Analyst Tom Lee, who urged clients to stay long even as markets flirted with bear territory, is now arguing that the next leg of leadership will come from energy names rather…
A brutal Arctic blast has turned the normally sleepy midwinter gas market into one of the most volatile corners of global energy. Benchmark contracts that spent much of last year languishing are suddenly sprinting higher as heating demand collides with tight supply and fragile infrastructure. The spike looks dramatic on its own, but the deeper…
A new push from the Democratic left is aiming not just to trim immigration enforcement, but to sharply restrict the Department of Homeland Security’s power to lock people up. At the center is Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois, who is preparing legislation that would severely limit when DHS can detain immigrants and redirect money away…
Silicon Valley has poured billions into apps, wearables, and AI tools that promise to fix a broken healthcare system, yet the foundations under that revolution are quietly cracking. Cyberattacks, exhausted clinicians, and burned-out engineers are exposing how fragile the digital infrastructure of care really is. The result is a silent crisis that threatens to wreck…
Grocery shoppers have been promised relief as President Donald Trump tears up some of his own food tariffs, but the gap between policy headlines and the price at the register is stubbornly wide. Tariff cuts can, in theory, pull certain staples lower, yet the structure of supermarket supply chains means any plunge in prices is…
U.S. bank shares are under heavy pressure as Wall Street races to price in President Donald Trump’s proposed 10% ceiling on credit card interest. The looming deadline for lenders to respond has turned a long-simmering political promise into an immediate market test, with traders dumping financial stocks and scrambling to gauge how far profits and…
President Donald Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of replacing the federal income tax with tariffs, telling Americans that future federal operations could be funded without traditional income levies. If that vision ever moved from rally line to law, the shock would not be evenly distributed, and some states would be far more exposed than…
When large sums of cash arrive in a poor community, the change can look like magic at first glance: debts vanish, roofs get fixed, and market stalls suddenly fill with new goods. Yet what really happens when so‑called “free money” floods a fragile economy is far more complex than a simple before‑and‑after snapshot. The evidence…