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In total, deficits post-ruling will be $2 trillion larger than they were before the Supreme Court decision.
"Clearly there’s growing scepticism that a new Chair can start cutting straight away, particularly with the data as strong as it is right now,"...
The Supreme Court ruling also allowed Trump a peculiar loophole to strengthen his hand against bargaining partners, Ross said.
Speaking exclusively with Fortune, Ross said Iran "is going at least as well as anyone could have hoped," and that he is "intrigued" that China and...
"We look at risk, at the broad range of outcomes, and there are negative outcomes. One of them would be inflation, I call it the skunk at the party,"...
"President Trump indicated attacks could go on for four or five weeks, and there are already reports of a need to urgently replenish weapons...
Boomers—particularly wealthy older people—are "driving the train" when it comes to the economy right now, economists told Fortune.
Come 2030, the annual deficit will be worth roughly 5.9% of GDP, on par with the provisions set aside for health and social security programs, and...
"Comments about prices, inflation, and the cost of goods remained at the top of consumer’s minds. Mentions of trade and politics also increased in...
"If you read history books, there are a lot of examples where you could get surprised," Dimon told analysts yesterday.
"My sense is that could be dragged out for weeks, months, years," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
"I've got a lot of sympathy for Warsh's view. But the transition from here to where he wants to get, could be problematic."
Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing, in 2025 the deficit with China decreased $93.4 billion to $202.1...
"While Warsh may enter with a perceived dovish bias, he will first need to demonstrate that his views are anchored in economic fundamentals rather...
In some roles, it actually pays to stick with the same employer. In leisure and hospitality and IT, workers who stayed in their roles actually saw...
"Such confusion often leads to inertia, and we suspect that there will be no knee-jerk policy reaction to any of the week’s reports," Oxford...
"People wrote ... in 1969 that there would be no managers left in business because the computer itself would eliminate the need for managers, because...
"Nobody truly knows who the long-term winners and losers of this extraordinary technology will be," Deutsche's Jim Reid wrote this morning.
"Markets may be reminded that under the U.S. Constitution, no president—even one as historic as President Trump—has unchecked power," PIMCO's...
A look at BofA's data shows the shape of the consumer economy is no longer a K—if we're sticking with the alphabet theme, one might suggest an 'E'...
Annual interest payments will double to $2.14 trillion by 2036, nearly double the yearly budget for spending on defense.
Trump's claim that a trade deal between China and Canada would result in an ice hockey ban "perhaps underestimates the general Canadian support for...
BRIC nations have been "quietly leaving the Treasury market," ING observed in December.
"Interestingly, that pattern echoes what we saw in 2000 as the dot-com bubble started to burst," Deutsche's Henry Allen wrote. "Equities started to...
The Democrat roadblock was expected but “raises the prospect of Chair Powell staying on as FOMC chair (not Board of Governors chair) beyond May,”...
"Most CEOs just don't want to find themselves in the business of having to, in some sense, suck up to one administration after another to succeed in...
"We won’t be able to fix the debt without touching Social Security, Medicare, defense, or revenue—the math just doesn’t work. And...
“Our view is that this is a multiyear phenomenon that is worth investing in,” Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s Lisa Shalett said.
"Price action had long since detached from any sane discussion on debasement, but it often takes only a small ripple to trigger a broader correction,"...
EXCLUSIVE: The creator of the Sahm Rule on why she's concerned about the long-term health of America's economy.
EXCLUSIVE: The year-on-year inflation increase equates to an added cost of $2,120 per household, assuming they purchased the same goods and services...
Trump confirmed Warsh as the Fed chair nominee Friday morning. Here's what might be in store for the central bank.
"Eventually it might bring things together, but in the meantime ... it's unlikely that AI helps at all with the K-shaped economy," Innes McFee, CEO of...
"Underpinning this is our belief that the labor market is improving, and that unemployment will decline ahead on a trend basis," wrote the Macquarie...
Chris Murphy, the Senator for Connecticut, highlighted that a government shutdown could "easily" be avoided if President Trump chose to remove the...
"Since there's a huge disagreement on this one ... I think we should test it," Dimon said of Trump's 10% credit card rate cap.
"I think there's an explicit warning that if your fiscal house is not in order, the bond vigilantes can come out and retract their price," Ken Griffin...
“If you said, ‘Raise taxes and directly give it to the people who need it’? I’d do it.”
“Denmark’s investment in U.S. Treasury bonds, like Denmark itself, is irrelevant," said Scott Bessent.
At the time of writing, only 17% of Polymarket betters believe all the tariffs Trump has threatened against Europe will go into effect on February 1....
"While in many ways it feels like the U.S. holds the economic cards, it doesn’t hold all the funding cards in a world that will be very disturbed by...
"There are fewer opportunities," Kurt Couchman added. "The opportunities that are there aren't paying as well. Productivity is being suppressed."
"Big companies slow down, they become complacent, they become bureaucratic ... arrogant," Dimon said.
A conservative estimate would be $10m, wrote the Congressional Budget Office, but depends on how aggressive the Department of War wants to be with...
The Minneapolis Fed said that while retailers catering to higher-end consumers reported increased sales, those targeted at middle and lower-end...
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, echoed: "Despite being more than a quarter into [2026] our...
"Any nominee from U.S. President Trump is likely to have to place additional emphasis on their independence to try and prove they are above politics."
"We’ll need to be deliberate about how this technology is developed, governed, and deployed," Gates wrote.
"I believe that, within the next decade, we will not only get the world back on track but enter a new era of unprecedented progress," Gates wrote in...
ADP's jobs report delivered a sucker-punch to Gen Z grads this week: While hiring is up across private payrolls according to December data, it was...