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    Companies are spending so much on AI that they’re cutting share buybacks, Goldman Sachs says

    Companies are spending so much on AI that they’re cutting share buybacks, Goldman Sachs says

    “Surging capex spending related to AI will likely prevent a major increase in the buyback payout ratio,” the bank says.

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    September 9, 2025

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    Finance

    Investors brace for week of turmoil amid banking woes, interest rate hikes: ‘Things break when central banks tighten too much’

    By Ye Xie and Bloomberg
    March 26, 2023
    Barack Obama and Janet Yellen
    Finance

    Janet Yellen called up Hank Paulson with the banking system on the brink. ‘It’s really hard to stop or even slow down a bank run,’ he said.

    By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
    March 25, 2023
    A fed official just said abandoning the 2% inflation target would be a ‘disaster’ that would send the world back to the ’70s despite banking crisis
    Finance

    A fed official just said abandoning the 2% inflation target would be a ‘disaster’ that would send the world back to the ’70s despite banking crisis

    By
    March 24, 2023
    Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing
    Finance

    ‘We view this as an irrational market,’ Citigroup analysts worry that major bank stocks like Deutsche Bank are cratering for psychological reasons

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    March 24, 2023
    Picture of Starwood Capital CEO Barry Sternlicht.
    Finance

    Billionaire investor Barry Sternlicht says the Fed’s rate hikes are like using a ‘steamroller’ to ‘kill a small fly’ and warns the economy is about to ‘hit the wall’

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    March 24, 2023
    A legal scholar says the Dodd-Frank act put in place after the Great Recession proved to be useless amid SVB’s collapse
    Finance

    A legal scholar says the Dodd-Frank act put in place after the Great Recession proved to be useless amid SVB’s collapse

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    March 24, 2023
    Apps, crypto, and even Starbucks cards: Deposit fragmentation has been on a decade-long mission to bring down banking–and it’s not done yet
    Commentary

    Apps, crypto, and even Starbucks cards: Deposit fragmentation has been on a decade-long mission to bring down banking–and it’s not done yet

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    March 24, 2023
    Janet Yellen
    Finance

    Yellen changes tune on support for banking system a day after rattling markets with deposit insurance waffle

    By Christopher Condon, Viktoria Dendrinou and Bloomberg
    March 23, 2023
    Jerome Powell
    Finance

    The American banking system is hugging tightly to the Fed with billions of borrowing from the backstop barely budging

    By Craig Torres, Alexandra Harris and Bloomberg
    March 23, 2023
    Economist Nouriel Roubini
    Finance

    Wall Street’s ‘Dr. Doom’ sees ‘Bermuda Triangle’ of risks for economy and warns of a 2008-like crisis 

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    March 23, 2023
    U.S. Banks are sitting on $1.7 trillion in unrealized losses, research says. That’s not a problem—until it is
    Finance

    U.S. Banks are sitting on $1.7 trillion in unrealized losses, research says. That’s not a problem—until it is

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    March 23, 2023
    Tesla CEO Elon Musk
    Finance

    Elon Musk says Jerome Powell is so bad at his job that GPT-4 would be a better Fed chair: ‘This foolish rate hike will worsen depositor flight’

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    March 23, 2023
    small gerbil wearing a tiny hat.
    Commentary

    ‘Gerbil banking’ preceded the Great Depression. We’re seeing it again today

    By
    March 23, 2023
    Franklin Roosevelt
    Finance

    Silicon Valley Bank might have just blown up a banking regulation that was put in place at the depths of the Great Depression

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    March 22, 2023
    Jerome Powell
    Finance

    Fed to make hotly anticipated rate hike decision for first time since Silicon Valley Bank implosion

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
    March 22, 2023
    British economist Ann Pettifor
    Finance

    An economist who correctly predicted the Great Financial Crisis says the world’s central banks have chosen ‘class war over financial stability’

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    March 21, 2023
    The bank collapses triggered by SVB have uncanny parallels to the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s
    Finance

    The bank collapses triggered by SVB have uncanny parallels to the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s

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    March 21, 2023
    Woman at ATM
    Finance

    Ever since the invention of insurance over 300 years ago, it’s encouraged people to take more risk. Welcome to ‘moral hazard.’

    By Cassandra Jones Havard and The Conversation
    March 21, 2023
    Man walking in front of a boarded-up storefront in New York City
    Finance

    ‘Already past the point of no return’: JPMorgan says the U.S. is probably headed for a recession as economic ‘engines are about to turn off’

    By
    March 21, 2023
    Nearly 90% of fund managers expect the U.S. to remain stuck in stagflation in the wake of a banking crisis, BofA survey says
    Finance

    Nearly 90% of fund managers expect the U.S. to remain stuck in stagflation in the wake of a banking crisis, BofA survey says

    By
    March 21, 2023
    Jerome Powell
    Finance

    The expert who pioneered ‘quantitative easing’ has seen enough: Central banks are too powerful and they’re to blame for inflation

    By Richard Werner and The Conversation
    March 20, 2023
    Economist and president of Queen's College, Cambridge, Mohamed El-Erian
    Finance

    ‘This is going to be pretty bumpy going forward’: First Republic stock shares plunge almost 50% as people move their money despite $30 billion bailout 

    By
    March 20, 2023
    Elizabeth Warren says Jerome Powell has ‘failed’ at both of his jobs and shouldn’t be Fed chair
    Finance

    Elizabeth Warren says Jerome Powell has ‘failed’ at both of his jobs and shouldn’t be Fed chair

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    March 20, 2023
    Bank crisis will tip U.S. into hard landing after all, says Apollo’s chief economist: ‘I changed my view’
    Finance

    Bank crisis will tip U.S. into hard landing after all, says Apollo’s chief economist: ‘I changed my view’

    By Vildana Hajric, Michael P. Regan and Bloomberg
    March 18, 2023
    Investors feel bullish as ‘stock market had every chance to crater, but didn’t’ this week despite bank collapses
    Finance

    Investors feel bullish as ‘stock market had every chance to crater, but didn’t’ this week despite bank collapses

    By Jess Menton, Elena Popina and Bloomberg
    March 18, 2023
    Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
    Tech

    Silicon Valley’s hubris nearly ruined the U.S. economy

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    March 18, 2023
    Surprise: The pandemic significantly shrank America’s wage inequality, and the trend may continue
    Personal Finance

    Surprise: The pandemic significantly shrank America’s wage inequality, and the trend may continue

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    March 17, 2023
    ‘Dr. Doom’ Nouriel Roubini warns that ‘contagion’ from U.S. bank failures and Credit Suisse’s problems could spread globally
    Finance

    ‘Dr. Doom’ Nouriel Roubini warns that ‘contagion’ from U.S. bank failures and Credit Suisse’s problems could spread globally

    By
    March 15, 2023
    Producer prices
    Finance

    The price of eggs fell 36% in February alone as wholesale price inflation massively slowed

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
    March 15, 2023
    The SVB collapse adds financial instability to the Fed’s inflation fight. A recession may not be the worst outcome
    Commentary

    The SVB collapse adds financial instability to the Fed’s inflation fight. A recession may not be the worst outcome

    By Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz
    March 15, 2023

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