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Eleanor Pringle

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America’s ‘Achilles Heel’ of national debt is exposed by Trump’s Greenland tariff threat, warns Deutsche Bank

"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...

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National debt is already killing the American Dream, says top economist—and it might push the U.S. into an outright depression

"There are fewer opportunities," Kurt Couchman added. "The opportunities that are there aren't paying as well. Productivity is being suppressed."

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Jamie Dimon says his success is down to ‘details, no bullsh**ting, or meetings after meetings’ because complacency is what kills companies

"Big companies slow down, they become complacent, they become bureaucratic ... arrogant," Dimon said.

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Trump’s ‘Department of War’ rebrand could cost $125 million to replace all the stationery and signs, the CBO says

A conservative estimate would be $10m, wrote the Congressional Budget Office, but depends on how aggressive the Department of War wants to be with...

15.01.2026 4

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Economy is marginally improving but only because the rich are splurging on luxury items and holidays, the Fed says

The Minneapolis Fed said that while retailers catering to higher-end consumers reported increased sales, those targeted at middle and lower-end...

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‘You can’t just keep borrowing money endlessly’: Jamie Dimon warns $38 trillion national debt is going to ‘bite’ eventually, it’s just a case of when

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, echoed: "Despite being more than a quarter into [2026] our...

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Wall Street expects Trump’s Fed plot to ‘backfire’ spectacularly—perhaps even shutting the door more firmly on rate cuts

"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."

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Bill Gates says AI could be used as a bioterrorism weapon akin to the COVID pandemic if it falls into the wrong hands

"We’ll need to be deliberate about how this technology is developed, governed, and deployed," Gates wrote.

09.01.2026 4

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Bill Gates warns the world is going ‘backwards’ and gives 5-year deadline before we enter a new Dark Age

"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...

09.01.2026 4

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For jobless Gen Z, healthcare is the place to be as blue-collar hiring outstrips office jobs, says ADP’s top economist

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...

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Trump’s Venezuela plan just got a whole lot more expensive, as he says the U.S. could give ‘tremendous’ sums to oil companies building there

Before Trump suggested the U.S. government may end up footing the bill for rebuilding Venezuela's oil infrastructure, analysts were of the opinion...

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‘Military adventures cost money’: Economists’ key concern about Trump’s Venezuela action is how it weakens $38.5 trillion national debt picture

“What my concern about Venezuela is that…it’s just confirming that the United States isn’t a very reliable partner.”

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DoorDash’s CEO blasts ‘appalling’ claim that a major delivery app gives drivers a desperation score: ‘I would fire anyone who tolerated this’

"What’s described here is appalling, and if true, whoever is operating in this manner should be ashamed," DoorDash's Tony Xu wrote on X.

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Britain’s Royal Family is hiring someone to write their letters: It’s based at Buckingham Palace, comes with free lunch, and pays $43,000 a year

The correspondence team drafts "bespoke responses that answer varying and often unique queries" on behalf of the Royal Family.

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Happy New Year! There’s now less than a month until the next potential government shutdown

When signing the funding deal back in November, Trump said: "We’re sending a clear message that we will never give in to extortion"—fighting talk...

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No one’s happier about calls for a ‘backseat Fed’ than Fed insiders who were targeted by the White House this year

"How much can truly change under a single administration?" I asked one source. "Three years is a long time yet," came the response.

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Getting hired in 2026 is all about your ‘microcredentials’ says CEO of $1.3 billion learning platform—this is what he tells Gen Z to focus on

"We do see a big spike in enrollments, typically, in January," Coursera CEO, Greg Hart, tells Fortune in an exclusive interview. "It's sort of like...

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After 23 years working for Jeff Bezos, the CEO of a $1.3 billion skills platform shares lessons he learned from Andy Jassy and the Amazon founder

In 1997, the day before Greg Hart joined Amazon, he was summoned to a meeting—on a Sunday—with its founder, Jeff Bezos.

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Meet the millionaires living the ‘underconsumption’ life: They drive secondhand cars, batch cook, and never buy new clothes

From thrifted clothes to no gifts at the holidays, these millionaires are living an 'underconsumption' life which has opened up financial freedom.

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‘Precarious’ is Wall Street’s defining word for 2026

Labor market softness, recession fears, AI bubbles and Fed questions are all top of mind as Wall Street heads into 2026.

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Bill Gates identifies the biggest burden being passed on to his children after seeing his daughter harassed online 

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates said he had been naive to assume that “when we made information available, that people would want correct information.”

21.12.2025 10

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Sneaking unemployment rate means the U.S. economy is inching closer to a key recession indicator, says Moody’s

"The trends are not our friends here," said Moody's economist Cris deRitis.

19.12.2025 5

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Elon Musk says there will be ‘no poverty’ in the future, implying Ray Dalio’s multi-million Trump Account pledge will be essentially redundant

"It is certainly a nice gesture," Musk said. "But there will be no poverty in the future and so no need to save money."

18.12.2025 5

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Red flags in U.S. data will justify ‘insurance’ interest rate cuts from the Fed next year, says UBS

“There are probably enough concerns about the health of the labor market to justify an insurance rate cut by the Federal Reserve next year,”...

17.12.2025 3

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Trump could announce a new Fed chair before Christmas: Here’s what you need to know about the leading candidates

What to know about Fed candidates Kevin Hassett, Kevin Warsh, Chris Waller and Rick Rieder.

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‘We have not seen this rosy picture’: ADP’s chief economist warns the real economy is pretty different from Wall Street’s bullish outlook

"We're tracking changes in real time, it's as high frequency as payroll data [can] get and we have not seen this rosy picture for 2026 in the data,"...

11.12.2025 10

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Fed’s expected rate cut today is less about stimulating the economy and more about protecting the job market from ‘shattering’

A cut is something of an "insurance policy against a shattering of the U.S. labor market," UBS chief economist Paul Donovan said.

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Ray Dalio says ‘a little bit of everything’ is needed to prevent a debt crisis—but it won’t happen anyway

Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio said averting $38 trillion national debt crisis requires bipartisan support—which will never happen,

05.12.2025 10

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For Wall Street, pandemic-level bad news for jobs is good news for stocks—it pushes the Fed further into cutting territory

Fed rate-cut odds surge toward 90% as weak labor data, ADP losses, and Challenger layoffs fuel Wall Street hopes for a December move despite a divided...

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Two months into the new fiscal year and the U.S. government is already spending more than $10 billion a week servicing national debt

Tariffs will bring in $300 billion to $400 billion a year, which would help to pay a fraction of the interest payments of more than $1 trillion in...

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Trump’s pick for chairman isn’t enough to threaten Fed independence, says Bank of America—especially if Jerome Powell decides to stick around

"The question then becomes, will Powell leave as a governor?"

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Warren Buffett used to give his family $10,000 each at Christmas—but when he noticed how fast they were spending it, he started buying them shares instead

Something to consider as the $83 trillion inheritance wave kicks in.

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‘The Fed went to sleep’ says top economist Mohamed El-Erian, who wants to see the central bank reformed and presidents to ‘cool it’

Mohamed El-Erian calls for a visionary, less reactive Fed just as Trump settles on his next chair, with Hassett leading and independence fears...

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Elon Musk says only AI and robotics can solve the ‘insanely high’ $38 trillion national debt crisis—but it would cause ‘significant deflation’

After clashing with Trump on spending, Musk argues AI and robotics are the only path to easing record U.S. debt costs—and may even trigger future...

01.12.2025 10

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National debt crisis will be averted by governments ‘mobilizing and encouraging’ private wealth to fill budget holes, says UBS

"Governments have long mobilized private wealth to support public finances. There are several approaches," UBS chief economist, Paul Donovan, outlined...

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Futures and Treasuries markets on CME black out overnight, after a glitch at an all-important data centre

"BrokerTec EU markets are open and trading. All other CME Group markets remain halted due to a data center cooling issue at CyrusOne," CME told...

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The labor market feels so awful right now because companies are doing everything bar announcing mass layoffs, says the Fed

Why job seekers feel the slowdown: Beige Book shows “low-hire, low-fire” trends, AI limiting new roles, before a 2026 rebound.

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Scott Bessent wants the era of Fed-watching to end: They should ‘move back into the background’ and make fewer speeches, he says

The Fed didn't want to get embroiled in politics in 2025—or ever. But Bessent wants them even further out of the public eye.

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Wall Street is on tenterhooks over the Fed’s ‘rare, genuinely suspenseful’ December meeting—the committee is unsure of the data, and each other

A divided Fed meets amid mixed jobs and inflation signals, leaving Powell with a suspenseful December.

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I chatted to Ray Dalio’s AI doppelgänger: It claims there’s a 75% chance the AI bubble bursts in 2026, isn’t so worried about national debt—and wouldn’t say which stocks to avoid

"One thing I’ve learned over the years," the freshly-launched bot muses, "Is that rapid, debt-financed build-outs often precede sharp adjustments.

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‘Don’t sell just because there’s a bubble,’ says Ray Dalio, but be prepared for low returns over be next 10 years

"I think the picture is pretty clear in that we are in that territory of a bubble, but we don't have the pricking of the bubble yet," Dalio said.

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The latest Fed minutes read like another nail in the coffin for a December interest rate cut

It's looking increasingly likely that Jerome Powell's Christmas gift to markets will be an economic lump of coal, rather than what's on Wall Street's...

20.11.2025 10

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‘A deadly confluence of wrong-way news’ is what’s causing the global market selloff, says top economist, and don’t expect it to get better anytime soon

Hopes for an interest rate cut from the Fed are fading despite a global slowdown and a spike in the VIX.

19.11.2025 10

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Odds of President Trump paying out $2,000 tariff rebate checks now sit at just 2%

In the days since President Trump made the pledge, members of his cabinet have poured cold water on the plans.

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America’s path out of $38 trillion national debt crisis likely involves pushing up inflation and ‘eroding Fed independence,’ says JPMorgan Private Bank

The government could "tolerate stronger growth and higher inflation, allowing real interest rates to fall and the debt burden to shrink over time,"...

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Trump blames ‘Too Late Powell’ for a housing crisis—but top analysts say low rates ‘snapped the trap shut’ on Millennial and Gen Z homeowners in the first place

What’s driving the housing affordability crisis—from decades-low mortgage rates that inflated prices to today’s record spreads limiting Fed influence.

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Butchered jobs and inflation data add fuel to the fire of uncertainty already blazing in the markets

A worldwide selloff accelerates as patchy U.S. data clouds the Fed’s next move, sending Wall Street tumbling and volatility surging into the end of...

14.11.2025 5

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In just 15 years, the average U.S. homebuyer went from 39 to 59 years old: Top analyst reveals how the housing market has warped in one generation

The first-time homebuyer just hit 40 years old for the first time ever, but the average homebuyer is nearly a senior citizen.

13.11.2025 5

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Welcome to the era of ‘low-hire, more-fire,’ warns top economist—the days of talent hoarding are over

"As the focus among businesses now turns to efficiencies and increasing productivity, we expect layoffs to increase, causing unemployment to rise."

11.11.2025 10

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Bill Gates believes Alzheimer’s blood tests should be part of routine medicals—such prevention means you could work into your 90s if you wanted to

"Going after a few diseases, where Alzheimer's is number one by quite a bit, the imperative is very, very clear," Gates added.

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