Category: Markets and Macro

European policymakers are no longer content to fine American tech giants and move on. They are building the legal and physical infrastructure to switch away from U.S. platforms altogether, even as equity markets still price Big Tech as if Europe will always be a captive customer. What looks like regulatory noise is, in reality, a…

President Donald Trump is moving to put rare earths on the same strategic footing as oil, backing a plan to spend nearly $12 billion building a government-controlled cache of critical minerals. Branded Project Vault, the initiative is designed to blunt China’s dominance in the supply chains that feed everything from electric vehicles to fighter jets…

President Donald Trump entered his second term promising to cut Americans’ energy bills in half, casting himself as a cost-of-living crusader who would tame utility costs as reliably as he slashed regulations. One year on, the numbers point in the opposite direction, with household electricity charges climbing and utilities lining up to raise rates again….

Robb Miller/Unsplash For years, investors have treated economic growth and corporate earnings as the main swing factors for stock prices. Now a different kind of risk is moving to the foreground, one rooted in politics, policy and market structure rather than in GDP or profit margins. The result is a market that can look fundamentally…

The world’s largest private hoard of bullion has quietly become one of Washington’s most important new creditors, turning a fortress of gold into a vast reservoir of U.S. Treasurys. That pivot is unfolding just as traditional foreign buyers step back and gold itself surges on fears about America’s debt path. The result is a feedback…

President Donald Trump is betting that a massive cache of critical minerals can become the backbone of a more resilient American industrial base. With a new $12 billion initiative branded “Project Vault,” the administration is moving to stockpile rare earths and other strategic materials that underpin everything from electric vehicles to fighter jets, while trying…

Latin American shop floors and digital marketplaces are being transformed by a tidal wave of low cost Chinese products that are undercutting local manufacturers and reshaping trade ties across the hemisphere. The new Associated Press reporting shows how everything from electric vehicles to fast fashion and household gadgets is arriving at prices regional producers struggle…

California is moving ahead with a sweeping experiment in how it pays for roads, shifting from a traditional gas tax toward a per‑mile charge that would apply to both gasoline cars and electric vehicles. The idea is simple enough, but the politics are anything but, with supporters calling it a fair way to fund infrastructure…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has abruptly hit pause on a key stream of federal support for manure digesters on large livestock operations, freezing new loan guarantees and grants that have helped bankroll these controversial projects. The move throws dozens of factory farm biogas plans into uncertainty and signals a rare moment of skepticism inside…

Two colossal winter systems turned the final days of January into a stress test for the United States, burying cities in snow, glazing highways in ice, and stretching emergency response from the Southern Rockies to the Northeast. Together, the twin storms are already being tallied as billion‑dollar disasters, with early estimates suggesting damage and economic…