Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
High-yield dividend exchange traded funds have become core building blocks for investors who want steady cash flow without handpicking dozens of individual stocks. Among the most popular options, Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD) and Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (VYM) stand out as low cost, large scale ways to tap into blue chip income….
Intel’s next earnings report is shaping up as a genuine line in the sand for the stock. After a powerful rebound over the past year and a fresh rally into 2026, expectations are high and positioning is crowded, which means the numbers and guidance Intel delivers on January 22 could trigger an outsized move in…
Michael Burry is once again positioning himself against the market’s favorite story, arguing that the artificial intelligence boom is hollowing out the economics of Big Tech and setting investors up for a painful reckoning. He is not just talking his book, he is using Warren Buffett’s own history to argue that when a powerful technology…
President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosure shows he has placed up to $2 million into bonds tied to Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery, just as a potential merger between the two media giants lands on his regulatory agenda. The timing and scale of those moves have revived long‑running worries that his personal portfolio could collide…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has spent years brushing off accusations that her family’s stock trades benefit from her access to market-moving information. When she snapped “That’s ridiculous” at a television interviewer pressing her on insider trading claims, the exchange crystallized a long-running tension between public outrage and the limited facts actually on the record. The…
Ray Dalio has spent years warning that the United States is drifting into a dangerous phase of its long‑term economic cycle. Now his language has sharpened into something closer to a siren, describing the risk of an “economic heart attack” and a “debt death spiral” that could reshape living standards for Americans. At the core…
The fight over Greenland has jolted transatlantic relations into their most dangerous phase in years, with President Donald Trump using tariffs to punish NATO partners and the European Union quietly readying a powerful countermeasure. European officials now talk openly about a secretive “trade bazooka” that could slam U.S. exports and services if Washington refuses to…
Capitalism is often treated as a timeless backdrop to modern life, a system that simply emerged in Europe and then swept the globe by force of inevitability. A new global history by Harvard historian Sven Beckert argues that this familiar story is badly incomplete, and that capitalism was once far more fragile, contested, and geographically…
Artificial intelligence has already reshaped the stock market’s leaderboard, yet one name keeps reappearing whenever analysts talk about the next decade rather than the next quarter. The company at the center of a bold forecast that its shares could climb 976% is Nvidia, the chip designer whose processors power everything from data center training clusters…
Canada’s auto heartland is being squeezed between President Donald Trump’s escalating tariffs and a once-in-a-generation shift toward electric vehicles. Ottawa is racing to keep assembly lines running, jobs anchored at home, and investment from fleeing to friendlier jurisdictions. The scramble is forcing a strategic reset that reaches far beyond cars, into trade alliances, industrial policy,…