Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
The United Nations human rights office is warning that it is running on fumes just as global abuses are mounting, and officials say cuts driven by President Donald Trump have pushed the system into what they bluntly describe as “survival mode.” The United States was long the largest single funder of the United Nations, but…
Barron Trump has quietly crossed a threshold that once seemed reserved for his parents, with multiple reports now pegging the 19‑year‑old’s fortune at around $150 million and noting that he has overtaken Melania Trump in personal wealth. The catalyst, according to those same accounts, is not a traditional trust fund or modeling contract but a…
Billionaire Republican donor Ken Griffin has moved from quiet ally to sharp critic, accusing President Donald Trump’s inner circle of treating public power as a vehicle for private gain. His charge of “self-enrichment” lands at a moment when Trump and his family are building a parallel universe of exclusive clubs and investment vehicles that blur…
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth is turning his official travel into a rolling showcase of billionaire-built rocket factories, visiting the power centers of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk just as their companies lock in some of the fattest defense contracts in modern military space. The tours highlight how national security is being rewired around a handful…
President Donald Trump has turned a long running clash with Harvard into a direct financial ultimatum, telling the university the White House wants a 1 billion dollar payment to resolve federal investigations. The demand, delivered after months of behind the scenes talks, recasts a policy fight over antisemitism, civil rights and campus protests as a…
Donald Trump has not just embraced crypto as a policy priority, he has personally tied his fortune and his presidency to it. His family’s digital asset empire, centered on World Liberty Financial and a web of foreign deals, now sits on top of a regulatory regime his own appointees control. If this latest conflict of…
The revelation that a powerful United Arab Emirates royal poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family’s crypto venture has detonated a fresh political storm around President Donald Trump. At the center is World Liberty Financial, a digital asset company tied directly to the Trump Family, and a secretive stake that critics say…
The most aggressive political spenders heading into the 2026 midterms are not parties or candidates, but a new constellation of AI, crypto and Trump-aligned super PACs quietly stockpiling unprecedented sums. Together, they have assembled war chests that run into the hundreds of millions of dollars, positioning themselves to dominate the airwaves and shape which candidates…
Foreign money has quietly poured into a Trump family cryptocurrency venture, tying the president’s business interests to a powerful security chief from the United Arab Emirates. The scale and secrecy of the investment have raised urgent questions about whether a sitting president is now financially entangled with a foreign government’s national security apparatus. At stake…
President Donald Trump is turning a massive legal clash with the tax authorities into a political and public relations spectacle, floating the idea of settling his $10 billion claim and handing the money to charity. The president has framed the lawsuit as a test of government accountability after the leak of his tax returns, while…