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If the Trump administration succeeds at scuttling Obama-era climate decrees, it won’t just repeal a regulatory finding. It will roll back... Read More

Anthony L. Fisher: A recent New York Times op-ed showed the blind spot many libertarians still have for President Donald Trump. Read More

America faces a mounting fiscal crisis with debt at 120% of GDP as interest expenses now exceed defense spending, creating significant... Read More

On February 6, 2026, the Dow Jones hit a record level of 50,000. It was now 5 times its level in 1999 when it hit 10,000 for the first time.... Read More

If there were an award for the most counterproductive tax increase in modern history, it might be Washington state’s estate tax.... Read More

Michelle Wu is backing a bad housing policy that refuses to die. Read More

Chief executives have a lot on their minds in the best of times. This year, the list of worries is particularly daunting. Read More

Did Pam Bondi call a top in the stock market? Read More

Conventional investment advisors generally recommend that seniors delay taking Social Security as long as possible to maximize their lifetime... Read More

There’s a Wall Street axiom that where there’s hype, there’s a ticker. Every mania spawns its own exchange-traded fund... Read More

Popularity on Wall Street is a double-edged sword. Remember that as you peruse Fortune’s recently published ranking of... Read More

The rich of tomorrow will happily be quite a bit richer than today's rich. That’s because the proliferation of AI meant to do and think... Read More

On Jan. 26, 2025, Jamieson Greer was teaching Sunday school to a group of 9-year-olds when one of his phones started blowing up with calls... Read More

In just one year, the administration’s economic strategy has been astonishingly successful and completely course-corrected after Biden and... Read More

Philip Bump: All of the job growth since Trump returned to the White House has been in the private sector — mostly in health care and... Read More

AI panic is telling, but not in the way you might think. Read More

The disparate performance of Bitcoin and gold of late is noteworthy as investors seek alternatives to the U.S. dollar.  Read More

Another billionaire leaves the state that treats job creators and wealth producers like criminals. Read More

Fortune 500 companies show 65% drop in their diversity commitments as mounting legal challenges force corporate retreat from controversial... Read More

President Trump recently declared that “people should live in homes, not corporations,” echoing a widespread... Read More

Measure ULA is worsening the housing shortage and raising less revenue than promised. Read More

The flap of an AI paper triggers a freight-ening sell-off Read More

Workers are feeling betrayed Read More

AI is affecting the jobs market but not in the ways we were warned about. Read More

Economic reasoning explains why sports gambling reliably makes the average bettor poorer.  Read More

Household balance sheets are getting worse but they're still good. Read More

Stanley Kubrick’s comic masterpiece ‘Dr Strangelove’ remains a potent allegory for our times. Read More

Correlation is definitely not causation. Read More

AI is everywhere except in the incoming economic data. Read More

The incoming data has surprised significantly to the upside in recent weeks, but long rates have not moved higher. Read More

Over the course of 2025, the average tariff rate on U.S. imports increased from 2.6 to 13 percent. In this blog post, we ask how much of the... Read More

Energy, basic materials, and defensive consumer stocks are in. Tech and financials are out. That, at least, is Mr. Market’s view so far... Read More