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Corporate Earnings Are Strong. So Is the Case That Consumers Are Financing the Party

By Howard Roark · August 6, 2026

Business

Q2 Earnings Beat the Numbers. They Also Quietly Confirmed a Consumer Split Screen.

By Howard Roark · August 6, 2026

Business

Texas Just Showed What Happens When the Grid Says No to AI

By Howard Roark · August 6, 2026

Business

A Stake in the System: What Families Should Know About the New Trump Account

By Robinson Crothers · August 6, 2026

Business

Earnings Season's Real Message: Corporate America Is Fine, Consumers Are Splitting in Two

By Howard Roark · August 5, 2026

Business

Wireless Carriers Just Got a Preview of Their Next Competitor — and It's Not Another Phone Company

By Howard Roark · August 5, 2026

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Business

The Bond Market Is Quietly Doing the Fed's Job For It

Manufacturing just hit a four-year high even as long-term yields sit near two-decade highs — a reminder that it's the speed of a rate move, not its level, that determines whether it chokes the economy

By Howard Roark · August 4, 2026

Business

Japan and the U.S. Just Defended the Yen Together — First Time Since 1998

A rare joint currency intervention signals central bankers view a weak yen as a bigger threat than they're letting on, with implications for global rates that reach well beyond Tokyo

By Howard Roark · August 4, 2026

Business

Corporate America's Earnings Are Beating Estimates — Just Not for the Reasons You'd Want

A wave of second-quarter beats from industrial giants to consumer brands is being driven as much by tariff refunds and cost-cutting as by genuine demand strength, a distinction investors — and voters — should not gloss over

By Howard Roark · August 4, 2026

Business

Washington's China Chip Ban Shows Industrial Policy Has a Price Tag

A drafted FCC ban on Chinese data-center components would protect national security, but hyperscalers — and eventually their customers — will pay for the shift to costlier domestic suppliers

By Howard Roark · August 4, 2026

Business

Your Retirement Savings: The Next Financial Time Bomb?

Insurance Market May Be Hiding the Disaster Awaiting Us All

By Howard Roark · August 3, 2026

Business

The Chip Boom Is Real. So Is the Financing Fog Around It.

A parade of blowout semiconductor earnings this week shows AI demand still running hot, but a wave of vendor-financing deals between chipmakers and their own customers is starting to make the numbers harder to trust

By Howard Roark · July 29, 2026

Business

The Rental Market's Long Slide May Be Over, and Renters on Long Island Should Take Note

New data shows apartment vacancy rates tightening for the first time in years, a shift that typically precedes higher rents — arriving just as separate signs point to home prices reaccelerating nationally

By Howard Roark · July 29, 2026

Business

The Fed Held. The Market Voted Anyway.

Wednesday's rate decision came and went without a surprise, but a violent three-day hedge-fund unwind in AI-linked stocks shows investors are settling a very different argument on their own terms

By Howard Roark · July 29, 2026

Business

South Korea Just Committed Nearly $1 Trillion to AI. Watch Where the Chips Actually Go

A weekend summit produced the largest single burst of AI infrastructure commitments yet, and the fine print says more about who bears the risk than who reaps the reward

By Howard Roark · July 28, 2026

Business

Now Trending: X Money Goes Live — Elon's 'Everything App' Finally Gets a Wallet

X Money has rolled out to Premium subscribers with a 6% APY hook and a metal Visa card, and the reaction on X is a split screen of genuine excitement and pointed questions about what, exactly, people are signing up for

By Henry Cameron · July 28, 2026

Business

Wall Street’s Message: The American Economy Is Bending, Not Breaking

Intel's $15 Billion Ask Shows Chipmaking Is Now a Government-Backed Industry

Wall Street's Favorite Trade Is Betting the Fed Blinks and the World Behaves

The Jobs Report Was Fine. Wall Street Panicked Anyway About the Wrong Number

SpaceX's Texas Chip Plant Is a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds

The Jobs Report Everyone Wants Is the One That Keeps Rates Guessing

Corporate Earnings Are Strong. So Is the Case That Consumers Are Financing the Party

Q2 Earnings Beat the Numbers. They Also Quietly Confirmed a Consumer Split Screen.

Texas Just Showed What Happens When the Grid Says No to AI

A Stake in the System: What Families Should Know About the New Trump Account

Earnings Season's Real Message: Corporate America Is Fine, Consumers Are Splitting in Two

Wireless Carriers Just Got a Preview of Their Next Competitor — and It's Not Another Phone Company

More Stories

The Bond Market Is Quietly Doing the Fed's Job For It

Japan and the U.S. Just Defended the Yen Together — First Time Since 1998

Corporate America's Earnings Are Beating Estimates — Just Not for the Reasons You'd Want

Washington's China Chip Ban Shows Industrial Policy Has a Price Tag

Your Retirement Savings: The Next Financial Time Bomb?

The Chip Boom Is Real. So Is the Financing Fog Around It.

The Rental Market's Long Slide May Be Over, and Renters on Long Island Should Take Note

The Fed Held. The Market Voted Anyway.

South Korea Just Committed Nearly $1 Trillion to AI. Watch Where the Chips Actually Go

Now Trending: X Money Goes Live — Elon's 'Everything App' Finally Gets a Wallet

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