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The day is setting up as a lackluster one for stocks, as more earnings head our way. The bond market got jolted on Tuesday after June... Read More

Summer only just began last month, yet 96 percent of the U.S. population has already faced at least one extreme weather alert this... Read More

Critics ask "Where's the Beef," but America is "Lovin' It." Capitalism means you can "Have It Your Way." And so can ... Read More

Increased demand for Treasury bonds will give Congress breathing room, but without fiscal discipline it will only make the trouble worse in... Read More

Today’s announcement by President Donald Trump that America’s biggest companies are investing $90 billion to turn Pittsburgh into a major... Read More

For years, Wall Street’s top bankers have watched with a mix of envy and exhaustion as power, profits and the popular imagination... Read More

Prime Minister François Bayrou has angered MPs with a bid to cut two public holidays to rescue the country's finances. Read More

Despite 7 million open jobs, graduates struggle as education systems fail to align with business needs, requiring new approaches to learning... Read More

Staff reassignments are not going to fix the growing problems at the agency. Read More

The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act recently passed the U.S. Senate; a legislative milestone... Read More

RiskHedge—Disruption Research, Disruptive Technology Stocks—RiskHedge helps investors profit from disruption by providing research on the... Read More

President Trump is ramping up his campaign for lower interest rates. It is a high-risk and potentially self-defeating effort. Read More

The question isn’t whether AI will displace workers, but which workers — and what happens when America’s comfortable laptop class finds... Read More

There’s no retirement crisis. Those promoting the notion that Americans don’t have enough money to retire will eventually regret... Read More

Picture this. It’s 1925. A crew of Prohibition-era bank robbers cracks open a vault, thrilled to find $1 million in gold. But at... Read More

Reforming environmental rules is only a small step to rebuilding after wildfires. Read More

If the devil is in the details, then angels can be there too. That was the case with the June jobs report released last week, which... Read More

With two minutes to midnight, the Senate is taking up President Trump’s $9.4 billion rescission request to cancel unneeded... Read More

We got a glimpse of this, when cameras recorded thousands of State Department employees carrying their belongings out in bankers’ boxes. Read More

The numbers and the metrics have been saying the same thing for years: Ron DeSantis's Florida is still the best-run state for businesses and... Read More

Trump's tariffs are reshaping global trade for fairer markets and open competition. Read More

Section XXI of GATT (the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) titled “Security Exceptions” makes it clear that... Read More

KAMEHAME… huh? Read More

A recent survey indicates investors’ return expectations might be on the high side. Read More

The second-quarter earnings season kicks off Tuesday with some of the major banks set to report. While tariffs are likely to come... Read More

There are three types of investors: momentum, valuation and noise.  Read More

Americans are the wealthiest and most financially successful group of people that have ever roamed this planet. Read More

But only if they provide higher education services Read More

Patients look healthy on paper. Two years later, they're high-risk again. Read More

Explore the different types of exchange-traded funds and what we see as the top options. Read More

Real assets have historically helped hedge against the surprises that traditional assets often fail to absorb. Read More