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Shawn Tully

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A new book makes the case for putting money supply at the center of the U.S. economy and re-empowering commercial banks

“Making Money Work” argues that policymakers should once again make banks the centerpiece of the financial ecosystem.

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How Greg Abel may run Berkshire Hathaway differently than Warren Buffett

Abel is an accounting whiz who shares a lot of similarities with his mentor—and a few key differences.

06.05.2025 5

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Elon Musk’s retreat from DOGE has lifted Tesla’s market cap by $158 billion—but the stock is still 50% off its December peak

A TSLA stock rebound led to gains surpassing the current market caps of Amgen or Adobe.

29.04.2025 10

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How much was Elon Musk’s pledge to step back from DOGE worth? $67 billion to frustrated Tesla shareholders

The news—and subsequent jump in Tesla's stock price—followed a Q1 where its core business lost money.

25.04.2025 10

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The new leader of the Catholic Church will inherit a financial mess that Pope Francis spent much of his reign trying to fix

Pope Francis said that for his spiritual message to be credible, the Vatican’s finances had to be credible as well.

23.04.2025 10

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Car wreck: What to believe, Elon Musk’s promises or Tesla’s terrible results for Q1?

Elon Musk’s true believers are boosting the stock despite a big net income drop.

23.04.2025 30

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Musk under pressure to quit DOGE as crucial Tesla earnings call looms

Also: Shawn Tully on the U.S.’s use of non-tariff barriers, Pentagon Signal fiasco continues. 

21.04.2025 10

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Trump thinks ‘cheaters’ are hurting us on trade, but here’s how the U.S. employs a number of sneaky ‘non-tariff barriers’ to repel foreign goods

The culprit is “non-tariff barriers” (NTBs), such as quotas and technical standards that systematically block goods from flooding U.S. markets.

17.04.2025 7

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Top economist Larry Summers: U.S. Treasuries were trading ‘like those of an emerging market nation’

In a wide ranging interview with Fortune, the former Treasury Secretary also says we're already seeing the first signals of a possible recession.

12.04.2025 30

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Trump didn’t care that the stock market was crashing. Bond yields were the ‘pain point’ that finally got him to pause tariffs

An alarming spike in 10-year Treasury yields finally convinced Trump to act on tariffs.

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Are Trump’s tariffs as bad as the Smoot-Hawley Act, which is blamed for deepening the Great Depression? They’re actually worse

Those dreading a return to the Smoot Hawley days think this time around could be even worse given the size and scale of Trump's new tariffs.

03.04.2025 9

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France fines Apple $162 million for privacy tool overreach

Authorities in Germany, Italy, Romania and Poland have opened similar probes against Apple.

31.03.2025 20

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Trump’s Social Security nominee is a Fortune 500 CEO. Will he fix the agency’s customer-service problems, or run afoul of Musk’s war on costs?

Fiserv CEO Frank Bisignano has the credentials to upgrade Social Security, but faces broad distrust because of DOGE's cuts.

31.03.2025 20

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Boeing whistleblower John Barnett’s tragic suicide note becomes a key piece of evidence in new lawsuit

The complaint spotlights Barnett's final thoughts as he contemplated taking his own life after locking himself inside his pickup truck overnight.

21.03.2025 10

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Exclusive: Superlawyer David Boies expected to hit Boeing with wrongful death suit spurred by suicide of whistleblower John Barnett

Boeing whistleblower Barnett "wasn't looking for anything for himself," Boies says. "He was just looking to make airplanes safe."

18.03.2025 2

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Trump claims tariffs will make the U.S. ‘rich again.’ But 5 undisputed facts about how they work throw cold water on that notion

What we know so far: Tariffs will have a huge effect on the economy—just not the one the President is projecting.

16.03.2025 40

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Economists are trying to quantify what Trump’s trade wars could do to the economy. There’s little precedent

Economist Steve Hanke of Johns Hopkins University puts it succinctly: “You can’t win a trade war,” he says.

15.03.2025 8

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What would Tesla be worth without Elon Musk?

Investors are starting to examine what they've long ignored: Tesla's bedrock value minus the "Musk premium."

08.03.2025 40

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The Social Security Administration’s new boss is an unmatched operator—and now the second biggest business figure in Trump-land

He's known as a Jamie Dimon protegé, a 9/11 hero, and an operational expert. Now Fiserv's Frank Bisignano can add government hell-raiser to his...

30.01.2025 20

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Why is the market sliding so hard, so fast?

The market is vulnerable to corrections like these when investors suddenly decide they want to get paid more, a lot more, for gains that dissolve like...

13.01.2025 10

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Here’s the Problem With the Stock Market’s Recent Rally

Now the bulls are in a bind.

13.01.2025 4

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What’s behind the shocking, sudden rise in interest rates over the past few weeks?

This explosive shift in rates—in the wrong direction—is a harbinger of trouble as it is a crucial long-term driver of stock returns.

19.11.2024 4

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Top data scientist: Betting markets think Trump is winning, but Harris voters have reasons to remain hopeful

Though bettors are favoring Trump, the data scientist who has been tracking this wild election is a lot less sure they're on the money this time.

05.11.2024 2

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October surprise: Trump just blew a huge lead, and the Madison Square Garden rally started the drop, says top data scientist

Miller's numbers show a jaw-dropping swing to Harris that would have seemed unimaginable two weeks ago.

02.11.2024 10

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Who is winning the election? Top data scientist launches electoral vote counter that shows the race moving in real time

Thomas Miller, a data scientist at Northwestern University, bases his predictions not on the polls, but on where people are placing political bets.

29.10.2024 2

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‘Fundamental’ analysis says Harris should win, but the ‘technicals’ show a big lead for Trump, say two leading election watchers

In presidential elections, fundamental and technical analysis are also the two leading methods for handicapping the outcome.

29.10.2024 3

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Prominent data scientist on latest election odds: Trump leads, but Harris is gaining

Thomas Miller, a data scientist and professor at Northwestern University, says the 2024 presidential race has whipsawed over the past several weeks.

24.10.2024 3

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What went wrong at CVS? Departing CEO Karen Lynch’s reign started brilliantly, then unraveled fast

A trifecta of problems, some that started before she took the top job, ended the reign of one of the most powerful women in American business.

19.10.2024 4

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Trump’s odds have surged over the past week and he now holds a 2 vote electoral college lead, says prominent data scientist

Thomas Miller, a professor at Northwestern University, maintains that his model guided by political betting data is a much better forecaster than...

10.10.2024 10

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Elon Musk’s 10 laws of management

Deciphering the world's strangest executive playbook.

04.10.2024 20

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Japan’s new prime minister is set to propose a happiness index

As part of a bid to help the economy and shrinking population.

03.10.2024 4

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Harris holds a 66 electoral vote lead over Trump, calculates prominent data scientist

Data scientist Thomas Miller has crafted a model for forecasting the 2024 presidential election that appears far more reliable than polling.

03.10.2024 10

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Data scientist nails the Trump gaffe that started what looks today like a Harris landslide

"That event, and not the debate that just made things worse for Trump, marked the decisive turning point in the campaign."

22.09.2024 2

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