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AI is becoming the ‘magic fix’ as America places ‘one big bet’ on it not being a bubble, market veteran warns

“AI better deliver for the U.S., or its economy and markets will lose the one leg they are now standing on,” warns Ruchir Sharma of Rockefeller...

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Jason Ma

Surprise in Japan’s leadership race jolts financial markets as the dollar soars against the yen

Takaichi favors looser fiscal and monetary policies, raising expectations that Tokyo will issue more debt while the central bank rethinks rate hikes.

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Jason Ma

The job market is weak and getting weaker, top economists says, while Trump looks to the future

“Our big year won’t be really next year—it’ll be the year after,” Trump told reporters recently.

05.10.2025 2

Jason Ma

Larry Summers praises Ford CEO Jim Farley’s concept of the essential economy because it doesn’t ‘fetishize manufacturing’

"And by broadening the concept to fixing and moving as well as making things, I think it becomes a more plausible and a more inclusive concept."

05.10.2025 2

Jason Ma

Trade and legal experts see up to 80% odds that the Supreme Court will rule against Trump’s global tariffs

"Legal experts point out that none of Trump’s three appointed justices is distinctively 'Trumpy,' and they have been less predictable than...

05.10.2025 3

Jason Ma

NATO ally warns of ‘hybrid war’ threat from Russia as drones plague European military bases and airports

“I hope that everybody recognizes now that there is a hybrid war, and one day it’s Poland, the other day it’s Denmark and next week, it will...

04.10.2025 2

Jason Ma

Farm bankruptcies are soaring amid low crop prices, while Trump considers bailout of up to $14 billion

In the second quarter, there were 93 bankruptcy filings, up from 88 in the first quarter and nearly double the 47 at the end of 2024.

04.10.2025 2

Jason Ma

What bubble? By this measure, the AI boom still isn’t at dot-com bust levels

Another key difference between now and the earlier boom-bust era is that the Federal Reserve is lowering rates instead of raising them.

03.10.2025 4

Jason Ma

Trump’s tariffs are already spurring Japanese companies to shift more production to the U.S.

"What is becoming increasingly clear though is that firms are responding to U.S. tariffs by stepping up production in their U.S. subsidiaries."

29.09.2025 4

Jason Ma

South Korea’s trade deal with Trump could sink its currency and trigger a financial crisis

“Our position is not a negotiating tactic. It is objectively and realistically not a level we are able to handle. We are not able to pay $350...

29.09.2025 3

Jason Ma

Tactics used in the Michigan church attack resemble a new ‘hybrid threat’ meant to maximize damage, security expert says

"That all creates chaos. It could create what we call a fatal funnel trying to drive people towards one location."

29.09.2025 9

Jason Ma

Larry Ellison once predicted ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ amid constant recording. Now his company will pay a key role in social media

"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Ellison said last year.

28.09.2025 3

Jason Ma

A government shutdown would delay the jobs report at a critical time as the Fed weighs more rate cuts amid mixed economic signals

The September jobs report is expected to show a payroll gain of 45,000, up from 22,000 in the prior month, with the unemployment rate holding steady...

28.09.2025 4

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Entrepreneurs can make up to 70% more than paid employees per year, but there’s high inequality among the self-employed

But "the typical dollar in self-employment does not come from the typical self-employed individual," according to a Minneapolis Fed study.

28.09.2025 10

Jason Ma

A gauge of future home sales just turned negative—despite 9 straight weeks of falling mortgage rates

“A lot of buyers are hesitating because they’re worried about potentially losing their jobs, losing money in their stock portfolio, and the...

28.09.2025 6

Jason Ma

The U.S. economy is running even hotter than previously thought, and GDP growth could reach 4% in Q3

Stronger GDP also means the Federal Reserve will be under less pressure to lower rates aggressively.

27.09.2025 10

Jason Ma

JD Vance values TikTok the same as Snapchat’s parent, and Wall Street loses its mind. ‘This is crazy’

"This is crazy. I mean, the number's got to be wrong. It doesn't make any sense."

26.09.2025 3

Jason Ma

Disney brings back Jimmy Kimmel’s show after backlash spurred massive boycott while some conservatives blasted FCC

“We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show...

23.09.2025 20

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U.S. stocks are chipping away at Europe’s outperformance, and Powell slipped in this dovish signal on Fed rates that Wall Street overlooked

The S&P 500 is now up 13% year to date and the Nasdaq is up 17%. Meanwhile, the DAX stock market index in Germany is up 19% so far this year.

22.09.2025 20

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‘For Charlie’ — Trump and Elon Musk reunite at Kirk’s memorial service, months after stunning feud that appeared to end alliance

Before Trump took the stage to address the crowd, Musk went up to the president where he was sitting and sat down in an empty seat next to him.

22.09.2025 40

Jason Ma

Gen Z job crisis: Maybe there are just too many college graduates now

The percentage of Americans with a bachelor’s degree or higher is now 37.5%, up from 25.6% in 2000.

22.09.2025 6

Jason Ma

Another Republican senator blasts FCC chair’s comments on Kimmel — ‘Absolutely inappropriate’

"And I'll fight any attempt by the government to get involved with speech, I will fight."

21.09.2025 2

Jason Ma

White House scrambles to clear up H-1B visa confusion after panic throws corporate America into chaos overnight

"This is NOT an annual fee," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. "It’s a one-time fee that applies only to the petition."

21.09.2025 70

Jason Ma

Even Disney stars are joining calls to boycott the media giant after ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s show

The internet was already lighting up with users sharing screenshots of canceled subscriptions to Disney-owned streaming services or canceled vacations...

21.09.2025 40

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Powell showed he’s still ‘firmly in control’ after White House adviser Miran’s first FOMC meeting, former Fed official says

"Their actions demonstrate integrity, commitment to the Fed’s mission and the importance of sustaining the central bank’s independence."

21.09.2025 4

Jason Ma

A once-in-a-generation economic crisis in rural America means this year could be the last one for many farmers as Trump-Xi call offers no relief

A survey from the National Corn Growers Association showed that 46% believe the U.S. is on the brink of a farm crisis, and another 33% said maybe.

20.09.2025 3

Jason Ma

Behind closed doors, a majority of CEOs admit they won’t boost U.S. investment as tariffs hurt their businesses

During a gathering of top CEOs organized by the Yale School of Management, 62% said they don't plan to invest more in U.S. manufacturing and...

19.09.2025 30

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AI will spark ‘violent task churn’ in the economy, but even optimists may be underestimating the productivity boom, JPMorgan says

"This highlights another long-term trend: New innovations are contributing more quickly to overall productivity growth."

15.09.2025 9

Jason Ma

The Federal Reserve is about to have an extremely awkward meeting

While there is little doubt about the outcome of the Fed meeting, there are still questions over who exactly will be voting.

15.09.2025 10

Jason Ma

This housing data is the ‘most critical economic variable’ for predicting recessions, and it’s now at the lowest level since pandemic shutdowns

Moody’s own leading economic indicator that uses machine learning has estimated the odds of a recession in the next 12 months are now at 48%.

15.09.2025 30

Jason Ma

Utah governor blasts ‘conflict entrepreneurs’ and tech giants that ‘hack our brains’ after Charlie Kirk assassination

"I can't emphasize enough the damage that social media and the internet is doing to all of us, those dopamine hits."

14.09.2025 2

Jason Ma

Markets have been acting ‘super weird’ lately. Just look at gold prices vs. the dollar and bonds

"The fact that the 30-year Treasury yield didn’t fall immediately is weird and worrying. It took very weak payrolls to finally do that."

14.09.2025 10

Jason Ma

Russia’s central bank reveals GDP is shrinking, in a sign Putin’s war economy has slipped into recession

A chart in a central bank report showed GDP shrank on a sequential basis in the first and second quarters, meeting the definition of a technical...

13.09.2025 3

Jason Ma

The Fed ‘desperately’ wants to avoid a recession because it doesn’t want to get blamed and put its independence at risk, top economist says

"Obviously nobody wants a recession. But also in the context of Fed independence, they really don't want to get blamed for going into a downturn...

13.09.2025 3

Jason Ma

Dow futures edge up as recession fears grow while Wall Street awaits the one thing that could derail Fed rate cuts

On Thursday, the consumer price index is due, and Wall Street sees a 0.3% gain, accelerating from the 0.2% pace a month earlier.

08.09.2025 30

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The most troubling feature of the job market is how thinly spread gains are, top economist says — ‘this only happens when the economy is in recession’

"Since the beginning of the year, the economy has created a paltry 600k jobs, but without the job growth in these industries, there would be zero job...

07.09.2025 2

Jason Ma

U.S. may have to refund half its tariff revenue as high-stakes court battle threatens to wreak havoc on the deficit and bond market

"This alone would raise further concerns about the fiscal outlook and likely push bond yields higher."

07.09.2025 3

Jason Ma

Mortgage rates plunge to 11-month low on Fed rate cut hopes, and many lenders may quote in the high 5% range

The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage sank 16 basis points on Friday to 6.29%, according to Mortgage Daily News.

07.09.2025 10

Jason Ma

99.1% of Air Canada flight attendants vote against wage offer that union and airline agreed on, but flights will continue

Air Canada restarted operations on Aug. 19 after reaching an agreement with the union for 10,000 flight attendants to end a strike that disrupted...

07.09.2025 5

Jason Ma

The Fed got it wrong and is late again, top economist says, as job gains collapse

"So could they play catch-up? Yes, they could. Hopefully they will, but it's a more risky operation than a lot of people expect it to be."

06.09.2025 7

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‘Godfather of AI’ says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — ‘that is the capitalist system’

"We are at a point in history where something amazing is happening, and it may be amazingly good, and it may be amazingly bad."

06.09.2025 4

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You’re much more likely to get retrained than fired due to AI, but layoffs will rise, N.Y. Fed says

Among service companies in the New York–northern New Jersey region that are using AI, 35% said they are retraining their workers, up from 24% last...

05.09.2025 9

Jason Ma

Colleges should go ‘medieval’ on students to beat AI cheating, NYU official says

"Now that most mental effort tied to writing is optional, we need new ways to require the work necessary for learning."

01.09.2025 10

Jason Ma

Trump’s trade adviser says tariffs aren’t permanent after appeals court strikes down reciprocal duties

Navarro said the dissenting opinion in favor of the tariffs should give the White House a strong argument before the Supreme Court.

01.09.2025 30

Jason Ma

Social Security and Medicare cuts are coming because the bond market will eventually bring Congress to its knees, economist says

"A sharp upward repricing of the term premium for longer-dated bonds could force Congress back into a reform mindset."

31.08.2025 10

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Rural America is suffering an economic crisis as crop prices plunge — ‘U.S. soybean farmers cannot survive a prolonged trade dispute’

"Prices continue to drop and at the same time our farmers are paying significantly more for inputs and equipment."

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The housing market is no longer a wealth-building engine as home prices continue to slump

"Now, American housing wealth has actually declined in inflation-adjusted terms over the past year—a notable erosion that reflects the market's new...

31.08.2025 20

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What would the Fed do in a tie vote? It’s not clear, and the Bank of England had to break a deadlock this month

There have been three occasions when a vote on the FOMC passed by a one-vote majority, though the last time it occurred was in 1973.

31.08.2025 20

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Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are struck down by federal appeals court, putting trade deals and huge revenue windfall at risk

The 7-4 ruling won't take effect until Oct. 14, as the court sought to give the Trump administration time to appeal to the Supreme Court.

30.08.2025 10

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Trump declares war on the Fed, setting up a titanic struggle for world’s most important central bank

The Fed officials will likely circle the wagons as they seek to protect the central bank's independence.

26.08.2025 2

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AI is becoming the ‘magic fix’ as America places ‘one big bet’ on it not being a bubble, market veteran warns

Jason Ma

Surprise in Japan’s leadership race jolts financial markets as the dollar soars against the yen

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The job market is weak and getting weaker, top economists says, while Trump looks to the future

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Larry Summers praises Ford CEO Jim Farley’s concept of the essential economy because it doesn’t ‘fetishize manufacturing’

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Trade and legal experts see up to 80% odds that the Supreme Court will rule against Trump’s global tariffs

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NATO ally warns of ‘hybrid war’ threat from Russia as drones plague European military bases and airports

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Farm bankruptcies are soaring amid low crop prices, while Trump considers bailout of up to $14 billion

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What bubble? By this measure, the AI boom still isn’t at dot-com bust levels

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Trump’s tariffs are already spurring Japanese companies to shift more production to the U.S.

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South Korea’s trade deal with Trump could sink its currency and trigger a financial crisis

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Tactics used in the Michigan church attack resemble a new ‘hybrid threat’ meant to maximize damage, security expert says

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Larry Ellison once predicted ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ amid constant recording. Now his company will pay a key role in social media

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A government shutdown would delay the jobs report at a critical time as the Fed weighs more rate cuts amid mixed economic signals

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Entrepreneurs can make up to 70% more than paid employees per year, but there’s high inequality among the self-employed

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A gauge of future home sales just turned negative—despite 9 straight weeks of falling mortgage rates

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The U.S. economy is running even hotter than previously thought, and GDP growth could reach 4% in Q3

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JD Vance values TikTok the same as Snapchat’s parent, and Wall Street loses its mind. ‘This is crazy’

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Disney brings back Jimmy Kimmel’s show after backlash spurred massive boycott while some conservatives blasted FCC

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U.S. stocks are chipping away at Europe’s outperformance, and Powell slipped in this dovish signal on Fed rates that Wall Street overlooked

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‘For Charlie’ — Trump and Elon Musk reunite at Kirk’s memorial service, months after stunning feud that appeared to end alliance

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Gen Z job crisis: Maybe there are just too many college graduates now

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Another Republican senator blasts FCC chair’s comments on Kimmel — ‘Absolutely inappropriate’

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White House scrambles to clear up H-1B visa confusion after panic throws corporate America into chaos overnight

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Even Disney stars are joining calls to boycott the media giant after ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s show

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Powell showed he’s still ‘firmly in control’ after White House adviser Miran’s first FOMC meeting, former Fed official says

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A once-in-a-generation economic crisis in rural America means this year could be the last one for many farmers as Trump-Xi call offers no relief

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Behind closed doors, a majority of CEOs admit they won’t boost U.S. investment as tariffs hurt their businesses

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AI will spark ‘violent task churn’ in the economy, but even optimists may be underestimating the productivity boom, JPMorgan says

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The Federal Reserve is about to have an extremely awkward meeting

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This housing data is the ‘most critical economic variable’ for predicting recessions, and it’s now at the lowest level since pandemic shutdowns

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Utah governor blasts ‘conflict entrepreneurs’ and tech giants that ‘hack our brains’ after Charlie Kirk assassination

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Markets have been acting ‘super weird’ lately. Just look at gold prices vs. the dollar and bonds

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Russia’s central bank reveals GDP is shrinking, in a sign Putin’s war economy has slipped into recession

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The Fed ‘desperately’ wants to avoid a recession because it doesn’t want to get blamed and put its independence at risk, top economist says

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Dow futures edge up as recession fears grow while Wall Street awaits the one thing that could derail Fed rate cuts

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The most troubling feature of the job market is how thinly spread gains are, top economist says — ‘this only happens when the economy is in recession’

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U.S. may have to refund half its tariff revenue as high-stakes court battle threatens to wreak havoc on the deficit and bond market

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Mortgage rates plunge to 11-month low on Fed rate cut hopes, and many lenders may quote in the high 5% range

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99.1% of Air Canada flight attendants vote against wage offer that union and airline agreed on, but flights will continue