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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’

Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Jerome Powell speaks alongside Michelle Bowman (L), Board Vice Chair for Supervision, and Lisa Cook (R), Board Governor, as he chairs a Federal Reserve Board open meeting discussing proposed revisions to the board’s supplementary leverage ratio standards at the Federal Reserve Board building in Washington, DC, on June 25, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

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

WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 02: U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a chart while speaking during a “Make America Wealthy Again” trade announcement event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025 in Washington, DC. Touting the event as “Liberation Day”, Trump is expected to announce additional tariffs targeting goods imported to the U.S. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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

Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, left, speaks with Lisa Cook, governor of the US Federal Reserve, during the Federal Reserve Board open meeting in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. The Federal Reserve unveiled plans to roll back an important capital rule that big banks have said limits their ability to hold more Treasuries and act as intermediaries in the $29 trillion market. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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

A Maersk container ship at the Port of Newark in Newark, New Jersey, US, on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025. The US and European Union took the next steps to formalize their trade pact, detailing plans that could reduce tariffs on European automobiles within weeks while opening the door to new potential discounts for steel and aluminum. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Trump’s tariffs are becoming such an important revenue source that they’re now propping up America’s debt rating

A USA map puzzle with pieces spread out in sepia.

A third of the U.S. economy is already in a recession or at high risk, and another third is stagnating, Zandi warns

TOPSHOT – A trader makes a bubble with a chewing gum ahead of the closing bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on January 29, 2019 in New York City. – Shares of large tech companies tumbled Tuesday ahead of big earnings announcements from the sector as US stocks finished a choppy session mostly lower. The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index finished 0.8 percent lower at 7,028.29. The Dow Jones Industrial climbed 0.2 percent to 24,579.96, while the broad-based S&P 500 shed 0.2 percent to 2,640.00. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)

Dow eyes fresh highs as Nvidia gets set to report earnings amid AI bubble fears

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Gen Zer who built multimillion-dollar companies says work-life balance is a trap and lists 5 ways to ‘optimize ruthlessly’ during your peak years

Justices of the US Supreme Court pose for their official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on October 7, 2022. (Seated from left) Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito and Associate Justice Elena Kagan, (Standing behind from left) Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

The Federal Reserve could start resembling the Supreme Court

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA – AUGUST 15:U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) hold a meeting at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on August 15, 2025 in Anchorage, Alaska. The two leaders are meeting for peace talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Russia is ‘teetering on the brink of a recession’ and headed for a disastrous harvest, while Putin’s other top source of cash plunges

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 22: A ‘For Sale’ sign is posted outside a single family home for sale on August 22, 2025 in Pasadena, California. Sales of existing homes rose slightly in July in the United States following a modest decrease in mortgage interest rates. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

The Fed is starting to worry about the housing market now

Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, from right, Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), and Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England (BOE), walk the grounds during the Kansas City Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium in Moran, Wyoming, US, on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. Powell carefully opened the door to an interest-rate cut in September, pointing to rising risks for the labor market even as worries over inflation remain. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Powell ‘holds the key’ to the next Fed rate move as divided policymakers will likely fail to reach a consensus again, JPMorgan says

Winter scenes in lower Manhattan, New York City. Taken after Snow Strom Jonas. Photographed from the steps of Federal Hall along Wall Street, showing a snow covered public statue of George Washington, the first president of the United States of America.

Winter is coming: U.S. will be most vulnerable to a recession late this year and early next as tariff and immigration fallout peak, top economist says

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 05: Sergey Brin attends the 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Barker Hangar on April 05, 2025 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

Sergey Brin told Google’s AI staff that working 60 hours a week is the ‘sweet spot’

COLUMBUS, OHIO – JULY 24: The COL4 AI-ready data center is located on a seven-acre campus at the convergence point of long-haul fiber and regional carrier fiber networks on July 24, 2025 in Columbus, Ohio. COL4 spans 256,000 square feet with 50 MW of power across three data halls. There are concerns that new AI data centers are hiking up electricity rates due to their massive energy consumption for training and operating AI models, coupled with the need for advanced cooling systems. The Ohio Tax Credit Authority has offered sales tax exemptions and incentives for new AI data centers in Ohio for development costs. (Photo by Eli Hiller/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Massive AI spending has a ‘crowding out’ effect that could slow other sectors, top economist says