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Why Trump’s Credit-Card Crackdown Will Backfire
Banks will play it safe if they are forced to cap interest rates, leaving most people with no credit cards at all.
Joe Nocera
Are Insiders Making a Killing on Polymarket?
A $400,000 payout on a bet anticipating Maduro’s capture puts prediction markets under a spotlight.
Maya Sulkin
Is a Country Rising or Falling? Watch Its Currency.
The collapse of the rial, the fall of the yen, and the strength of the dollar can tell you a lot about the world.
Tyler Cowen
Eric Adams’ Cryptocurrency Made No Sense. That Was the Point.
Meme coins are supposed to make you feel dumb.
Mark Gimein
Stock Investing for Babies
‘Trump Accounts’ aim to build savings for children to grow with, but it’s hard for the middle class to maximize their gains.
Peter Coy
A Fed Chair the Markets Will Love
They say the job of the Fed is to take the punch bowl away when the market gets crazy. But if Kevin Hassett replaces Jerome Powell next year, expect him…
Mark Gimein
The Valley of Death: Why $100,000 Is the New Poverty
The poverty line, a six-decade-old benchmark, claims to define the threshold to the middle class. The number is a lie.
Michael W. Green
Wall Street’s AI Obsession Makes Perfect Sense
As trillions flow into AI giants like Nvidia and Microsoft, market concentration isn’t a sign of fragility—it’s proof that the U.S. economy can reinvent…
Tyler Cowen
Want to Know Who Is Winning the Democrats’ Civil War? Follow the Money.
Big-name progressives like AOC and Ro Khanna are raking it in. Chuck Schumer? Not so much.
Gabe Kaminsky
Exclusive: Trump Admin Tells Banks to Report ‘Domestic Terrorist Activity’
The Treasury Department wants financial institutions to report suspicious activity as part of Trump’s crackdown on antifa.
Gabe Kaminsky
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