On April 9, 2025, President Donald Trump did what he does best—disrupted the status quo. With the flourish of a press conference and a tweetstorm to match, he announced a sweeping new tariff policy that stunned both friend and foe: a 90-day pause on new tariffs for most countries, reducing the general tariff rate to […]
Breaking News: The Fed Is “Thinking” About Cutting Rates… Maybe… If It Feels Like It WASHINGTON D.C.—In a move that can only be described as “a non-move that somehow still moved markets,” the Federal Reserve wrapped up its two-day meeting by announcing… absolutely nothing new. Interest rates remain unchanged, but Fed officials are definitely considering […]
March 2025 – It’s happening again. The markets are in freefall, the suits are sweating, and the news anchors are cycling through their greatest hits of recession panic. This time, the crisis du jour is a combination of Wall Street’s economic slowdown fears, fresh signs of a weak U.S. economy, and a never-ending trade war […]
But Tell Me Again How AI Will Replace Us When It Can’t Even Replace Investors Making Bad Decisions The Beginning of the End? Or Just Another Tuesday on Wall Street? For years, we’ve been bombarded with the prophecy that AI will take over our jobs, our livelihoods, and maybe even our ability to function as […]
The Department of Government Efficiency’s latest layoffs—a bloodbath dressed up in bureaucratic double-speak—have landed like a gut punch to consumer confidence, stoking fresh fears of economic turmoil. While these cuts have yet to show up in the unemployment rate, their psychological impact is already warping the financial landscape. Markets are jittery, economists are slashing forecasts, […]
The Economy Teeters While Politicians Play Trade War Games It’s 2025, and here we go again. The folks in Washington, armed with their bottomless appetite for economic meddling, are threatening another round of tariffs—this time aimed at Canada, Mexico, and China. Meanwhile, the people who actually power the economy—workers, small businesses, and investors—are left bracing […]
The numbers don’t lie, but they don’t always tell the whole story either. President Trump’s recent policy moves have economists scrambling to determine whether the U.S. economy is running on solid ground—or a house of cards stacked against a gusty political wind. On paper, the fourth quarter’s 2.3% GDP growth and a January unemployment rate […]
If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of economic anxiety crackling across the country like static on an old radio. A recent round of polling confirms what anyone with a mortgage, a grocery bill, or an empty savings account already knows: Americans are increasingly worried about their financial future. According to a recent […]