Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
Layoff announcements at the start of 2026 have surged to levels not seen since the depths of the Great Recession, colliding with a new wave of public‑sector cuts under President Donald Trump. The result is a January that looks less like a soft landing and more like the opening chapter of a harsher jobs reset….
Homeowners are being warned that a forged signature and a fraudulent filing at the courthouse can be enough to strip them of their most valuable asset. Deed and title fraud, once a niche concern, has become a favored tactic for scammers who can quietly transfer ownership on paper, then sell or mortgage the property before…
SpaceX is still a private company, yet it is already trying to script its life as a future blue chip. The rocket and satellite group is working on a massive initial public offering that could value it in the trillions of dollars and is simultaneously pushing to qualify for flagship benchmarks like the S&P 500…
Bitcoin’s latest plunge has erased every price gain it notched after Donald Trump’s re-election, turning what had been a euphoric run into a harsh lesson in how quickly crypto momentum can reverse. The token has not only slipped below the levels it traded at around the 2024 vote, it has also shed a large chunk…
The dollar’s next big move is back in focus after a long run of strength, and investors are looking for clear signals on where it goes from here. Bank of America has been warning clients that the greenback’s trajectory is shifting, and that the easy gains from a strong United States currency may be behind…
Mass layoffs at brand-name employers are back in the headlines, and the numbers are jarring enough to make almost anyone glance over their shoulder at work. U.S. companies have announced job cuts at a pace not seen since the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, with transportation, tech and health care all slashing staff. The…
The economist who earned the nickname “Dr. Doom” for flagging the 2008 financial crisis long before it hit is now training his sights on digital assets. Nouriel Roubini is warning that a brutal reckoning for cryptocurrencies is no longer a distant risk but an imminent event that could wipe out vast paper wealth and expose…
Warnings about a 2026 market bust are getting louder, and they are not coming from fringe doomsayers. Hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones is comparing the current backdrop to the late 1990s, arguing that the setup “feels exactly like 1999” and that the next year could be even more “explosive” than the dot‑com peak. The…
The value of the U.S. dollar is sliding at the very moment Washington is signaling it is comfortable with that decline. A currency that has long been treated as a symbol of American strength is now being nudged lower by the very administration that is supposed to protect its credibility. The shift is deliberate, and…
The safest asset in global finance is suddenly at the center of a geopolitical staring contest. With European investors sitting on roughly $8 trillion of U.S. Treasury debt, the threat that those bonds could be dumped in a political dispute is no longer an abstract academic exercise but a live bargaining chip in a widening…