menu_open Columnists
Catherine Arnst

Catherine Arnst

Quartz

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

The Trump budget cuts that could hurt the economy for a long time

President Donald Trump sent shockwaves through the scientific community with his proposed budget that would slash federal spending on research and...

yesterday 10

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

CEOs to Trump: It's time to make a trade war deal

The bloom is very much off the rose when it comes to the business community’s embrace of President Donald Trump’s second term. With his imposition...

05.05.2025 7

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

Trump's family could make hundreds of millions from an Abu Dhabi crypto investment

MGX, a fund backed by Abu Dhabi, will make a $2 billion investment in the cryptocurrency exchange Binance Holdings Ltd using a digital coin...

02.05.2025 1

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

Americans are getting their first glimpse of life with tariffs

Already unhappy American shoppers will now see much higher prices on a lot of formerly low-cost goods, due to the expiration on Friday of a long-time...

02.05.2025 20

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

Apple says tariffs will cost it a whopping $900 million this quarter

Tariffs are about to hit Apple (AAPL) — and hard. As Big Tech and other firms continue to grapple with the Trump administration’s shifting tariff...

02.05.2025 20

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

America's travel industry is in sharp decline

The travel and tourism industry, which accounts for about 3% of the U.S. GDP, has long been one of the economy’s most robust sectors, particularly...

01.05.2025 7

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

Weight loss drugs can help employers cut health care costs, study says

Covering the cost of pricey GLP-1 weight loss drugs could pay off for employers by cutting overall medical spending for people taking the...

30.04.2025 10

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

Is a recession coming? Here's what JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and other banks and economists say

Like the gyrations in the stock market, economists have gone back and forth on recession predictions. A year or so ago there was a broad consensus...

29.04.2025 4

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

Trump's first 100 days had the worst market performance in half a century

If the market’s performance these days is giving you flashbacks to the days of 1973 and 1974, when President Richard Nixon resigned and President...

28.04.2025 2

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

Elon Musk's work for Trump is really unpopular, poll says

Americans are overwhelmingly unhappy with Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk’s cost-cutting efforts for the Trump Administration, with his disapproval...

28.04.2025 3

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

Airbus is buying some of rival Boeing's old supply chain

Airbus (AIR) said on Monday that it agreed to acquire some of Sprit Aerosystems’s facilities for making jet parts, completing a carve-up with Boeing...

28.04.2025 8

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

Copycat Ozempic makers just lost a big court fight

Read more...

25.04.2025 2

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

Trump says he would support a millionaires tax — if it weren't bad politics

President Donald Trump said the only reason he wouldn’t support an increase in the tax rate for millionaires is because it could lead to election...

25.04.2025 2

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

Trump and China can't even agree on if Trump and China are having trade talks

President Donald Trump said in a Time interview published Friday that Chinese President Xi Jinping has called him, and that he has already made 200...

25.04.2025 2

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

Nvidia and other chip stocks jump as tariff fears ease

Chip stocks were among the market leaders on Wednesday thanks to President Donald Trump’s statement the day before that tariffs on China “will...

24.04.2025 10

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

Eli Lilly is stepping up its fight against copycat weight loss drugs

In its continuing war against copycat drugs, Eli Lilly (LLY) said on Wednesday that it filed suits against four telehealth companies that offer...

23.04.2025 2

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

'China needs to change,' Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that China’s current economic model — built on “exporting its way out of economic troubles”...

23.04.2025 2

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

Can Trump fire Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chair? Here’s what to know

President Donald Trump may have thought highly of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell when he nominated him to head the central bank in 2017 during...

23.04.2025 10

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

Chevron's CEO isn't worried about a recession

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Tuesday that he does not think the United States is close to a recession, although there are...

22.04.2025 2

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

Roche says it will invest $50 billion in the U.S. as tariff fears hit pharma

With threats of tariffs hanging over the pharmaceutical industry, Switzerland’s Roche announced on Tuesday that it will invest $50 billion in the...

22.04.2025 40

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

Mark Zuckerberg's pet project private school is closing

A tuition-free private elementary school co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg’s wife Priscilla Chan, which serves two disadvantaged communities in the San...

22.04.2025 3

Quartz

Catherine Arnst

Trump calls Fed Chair Jerome Powell 'a major loser' as attacks rattle markets

President Donald Trump on Monday called Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell “a major loser” and “Mr. Too Late” for not lowering interest rates...

21.04.2025 2

Quartz

Catherine Arnst