Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
Across kitchen tables and group chats, a familiar complaint keeps surfacing: official numbers insist the economy is improving, yet many households feel squeezed. The disconnect between upbeat data and lived experience is not a mirage, it reflects how statistics, markets and policy filter through to very different realities for workers, renters and borrowers. I want…
The United States is reshaping its global footprint on three fronts at once, moving militarily and financially in Venezuela, pressing an audacious bid for influence over Greenland, and still talking up the prospect of the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaching 50,000. Taken together, these moves reveal a White House that sees energy security, Arctic access,…
Global oil majors are racing to line up ships and offshore logistics to move a sudden wave of Venezuelan crude, turning a long-sanctioned producer into the hottest new prize in the tanker market. The scramble reflects both the commercial lure of heavy barrels that fit U.S. refinery needs and the political gamble of operating under…
The United States is pouring money and political capital into reviving domestic chipmaking, but the country’s former Intel chief executive, Pat Gelsinger, is warning that the comeback is still in its early innings. Even as Washington courts semiconductor leaders and celebrates new factories, Gelsinger argues that reclaiming production from Asia will be a decade‑scale project,…
OpenAI and SoftBank Group Corp are committing $1 billion to SB Energy, turning a specialist in large-scale infrastructure into a central pillar of the Stargate data center buildout. The deal signals that the race to supply power and real estate for advanced AI is entering a new phase, where energy developers sit alongside chipmakers and…
Bill Gates has quietly become one of the most powerful landowners in the United States, controlling a patchwork of fields and orchards that add up to roughly one out of every 4,000 acres in the country. His stake, which various reports put at about 270,000 to 275,000 acres of U.S. farmland, has turned a once…
Artificial intelligence is starting to automate the very tasks that once defined white‑collar careers, yet a growing group of displaced and anxious workers are finding a way to get paid by helping train the systems that could replace them. Instead of fighting the tide, they are selling their expertise to companies that need human judgment…
Robert Kiyosaki is turning up the volume on a warning he has repeated for years: the next phase of the global downturn will not just dent portfolios, it could erase jobs on a historic scale. As 2026 approaches, he is tying that risk to what he calls the biggest economic and technological shift in history,…
The market gauge Warren Buffett once called “probably the best single measure” of overall valuation is flashing one of its loudest warnings in six decades. The so‑called Buffett indicator, which compares the total value of U.S. stocks to the size of the economy, has surged to levels that historically preceded painful comedowns for investors. With…
Executives are racing to plug generative tools and autonomous agents into every corner of the business, from customer support to recruiting. Yet the basic discipline that governs human hiring, a clear role definition, is often missing when those same leaders deploy AI. If I would never bring a person into a critical workflow without a…