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"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...
Before Trump suggested the U.S. government may end up footing the bill for rebuilding Venezuela's oil infrastructure, analysts were of the opinion...
“What my concern about Venezuela is that…it’s just confirming that the United States isn’t a very reliable partner.”
"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.
The correspondence team drafts "bespoke responses that answer varying and often unique queries" on behalf of the Royal Family.
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...
"How much can truly change under a single administration?" I asked one source. "Three years is a long time yet," came the response.
"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...
In 1997, the day before Greg Hart joined Amazon, he was summoned to a meeting—on a Sunday—with its founder, Jeff Bezos.
From thrifted clothes to no gifts at the holidays, these millionaires are living an 'underconsumption' life which has opened up financial freedom.
Labor market softness, recession fears, AI bubbles and Fed questions are all top of mind as Wall Street heads into 2026.
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates said he had been naive to assume that “when we made information available, that people would want correct information.”
"The trends are not our friends here," said Moody's economist Cris deRitis.
"It is certainly a nice gesture," Musk said. "But there will be no poverty in the future and so no need to save money."
“There are probably enough concerns about the health of the labor market to justify an insurance rate cut by the Federal Reserve next year,”...
What to know about Fed candidates Kevin Hassett, Kevin Warsh, Chris Waller and Rick Rieder.
"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,"...
A cut is something of an "insurance policy against a shattering of the U.S. labor market," UBS chief economist Paul Donovan said.
Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio said averting $38 trillion national debt crisis requires bipartisan support—which will never happen,
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...
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...
"The question then becomes, will Powell leave as a governor?"
Something to consider as the $83 trillion inheritance wave kicks in.
Mohamed El-Erian calls for a visionary, less reactive Fed just as Trump settles on his next chair, with Hassett leading and independence fears...
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...
"Governments have long mobilized private wealth to support public finances. There are several approaches," UBS chief economist, Paul Donovan, outlined...
"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...
Why job seekers feel the slowdown: Beige Book shows “low-hire, low-fire” trends, AI limiting new roles, before a 2026 rebound.
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.
A divided Fed meets amid mixed jobs and inflation signals, leaving Powell with a suspenseful December.
"One thing I’ve learned over the years," the freshly-launched bot muses, "Is that rapid, debt-financed build-outs often precede sharp adjustments.
"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.
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...
Hopes for an interest rate cut from the Fed are fading despite a global slowdown and a spike in the VIX.
In the days since President Trump made the pledge, members of his cabinet have poured cold water on the plans.
The government could "tolerate stronger growth and higher inflation, allowing real interest rates to fall and the debt burden to shrink over time,"...
What’s driving the housing affordability crisis—from decades-low mortgage rates that inflated prices to today’s record spreads limiting Fed influence.
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...
The first-time homebuyer just hit 40 years old for the first time ever, but the average homebuyer is nearly a senior citizen.
"As the focus among businesses now turns to efficiencies and increasing productivity, we expect layoffs to increase, causing unemployment to rise."
"Going after a few diseases, where Alzheimer's is number one by quite a bit, the imperative is very, very clear," Gates added.