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A group of young people stand together, each with the flag of Nepal draped around their shoulders.
Elon Musk’s DOGE swiped $329 million in humanitarian funding from Nepal, leaving a Gen Z tech revolution to transform the budding country’s economy

After the Trump administration gutted USAID, Nepal’s private sector has stepped up to energize its young workforce and strengthen its financial independence.

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Treasury yields are already blowing up the CBO’s long-term forecasts, and experts who previously downplayed U.S. debt fears are now starting to worry
Treasury yields are already blowing up the CBO’s long-term forecasts, and experts who previously downplayed U.S. debt fears are now starting to worry
By Jason MaSeptember 19, 2026
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I fled communism. Are Gen Z drawn to it?
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‘It’s a dumb idea’: Republicans split from proposed ‘Trump dividend’ $5,000 plan if GOP wins midterms
By The Associated Press and Mike CataliniSeptember 18, 2026
An oil tanker on the water in front of a setting sun.
The Iran war is minting new one-day millionaires: oil tankers brave enough to sail across the Strait of Hormuz
By Sasha RogelbergSeptember 18, 2026
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Kevin Warsh just revealed a huge change for the Fed. The press missed it
By Steve H. Hanke and John GreenwoodSeptember 18, 2026
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Trump hails Netflix’s Sarandos as ‘fantastic man’ but casts mega-merger in doubt ‘There’s no question about it. It could be a problem’
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    Scott Bessent calls the Giving Pledge well-intentioned but ‘very amorphous,’ growing from ‘a panic among the billionaire class’
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Stocks: Everything is on hold until the Fed delivers that rate cut on Wednesday
By Jim EdwardsDecember 8, 2025
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Macron warns EU may hit China with tariffs over trade surplus
By James Regan and BloombergDecember 7, 2025
U.S. trade chief says China has complied with terms of trade deals
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U.S. trade chief says China has complied with terms of trade deals
By Hadriana Lowenkron and BloombergDecember 7, 2025
Jerome Powell faces a credibility issue as he tries to satisfy hawks and doves at the most divided Fed in recent memory
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Jerome Powell faces a credibility issue as he tries to satisfy hawks and doves at the most divided Fed in recent memory
By Jason MaDecember 7, 2025
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says Europe has a ‘real problem’
By Katherine Chiglinsky and BloombergDecember 6, 2025
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    Scott Bessent is defiant on whether tariffs are a tax, demands Democrats work to cut actual taxes instead
    By Nick LichtenbergDecember 3, 2025
The most likely solution to the U.S. debt crisis is severe austerity triggered by a fiscal calamity, former White House economic adviser says
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The most likely solution to the U.S. debt crisis is severe austerity triggered by a fiscal calamity, former White House economic adviser says
By Jason MaDecember 6, 2025
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Trump finally meets Claudia Sheinbaum face to face at the FIFA World Cup draw
By Will Weissert and The Associated PressDecember 6, 2025
U.S. consumers are so financially strained they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Black Friday and Cyber Monday
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U.S. consumers are so financially strained they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Black Friday and Cyber Monday
By Jeena Sharma and Retail BrewDecember 5, 2025
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‘This is a bad idea made worse’: Senate Dems’ plan to fix Obamacare premiums adds nearly $300 billion to deficit, CRFB says
By Nick LichtenbergDecember 5, 2025
Trump calls affordability a ‘Democrat scam’ and ‘con job’—but nearly three-quarters of his voters think cost of living is bad or the worst ever
Economy
Trump calls affordability a ‘Democrat scam’ and ‘con job’—but nearly three-quarters of his voters think cost of living is bad or the worst ever
By Jason MaDecember 5, 2025
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    Trump says national debt is ‘peanuts’ and his tariff income will pay everyone a $2,000 dividend too—but the math doesn’t add up
    By Eleanor PringleDecember 3, 2025
Construction workers are getting a salary bump for working on data center projects during the AI boom.
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Construction workers are earning up to 30% more and some are nabbing six-figure salaries in the data center boom
By Nino PaoliDecember 5, 2025
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People making six-figure salaries used to be considered rich—now households earning nearly $200K a year aren’t considered upper-class in some states
By Emma BurleighDecember 5, 2025
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Ray Dalio says ‘a little bit of everything’ is needed to prevent a debt crisis—but it won’t happen anyway
By Eleanor PringleDecember 5, 2025
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Treasury Secretary Bessent insists Trump’s tariff agenda is ‘permanent,’ saying the White House can re-create it even with a Supreme Court loss
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezDecember 5, 2025
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‘We fixed inflation, and we fixed almost everything’: Trump travels to Pennsylvania to talk affordability while denying it’s a problem
By Josh Boak and The Associated PressDecember 4, 2025
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Build-A-Bear stock falls 15% as it reveals the real hit from tariffs, at last
By Michelle Chapman and The Associated PressDecember 4, 2025
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America, meet your alienated youth: ‘Gold standard’ Harvard survey reveals Gen Z’s anxiety and distrust, defined by economic insecurity
By Nick LichtenbergDecember 4, 2025
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Retail
Dollar Tree says the majority of its new customers earn at least $100,000 a year
By Dave SmithDecember 4, 2025
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Real Estate
‘There is no Mamdani effect’: Manhattan luxury home sales surge after mayoral election, undercutting predictions of doom and escape to Florida
By Sasha RogelbergDecember 4, 2025
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Economy
Tariffs and the $38 trillion national debt: Kevin Hassett sees ’big reductions’ in deficit while Scott Bessent sees a ‘shrinking ice cube’
By Nick LichtenbergDecember 4, 2025
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Market doubts Hassett can deliver at Fed, PGIM’s Peters says
By Ruth Carson and BloombergDecember 4, 2025
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For Wall Street, pandemic-level bad news for jobs is good news for stocks—it pushes the Fed further into cutting territory
By Eleanor PringleDecember 4, 2025
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Wall Street drifts while Dollar General and Spam sales jump in a market hungry for affordability
By Stan Choe and The Associated PressDecember 4, 2025
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Success
Nearly 4 million new manufacturing jobs are coming to America as boomers retire—but it’s the one trade job Gen Z doesn’t want
By Emma BurleighDecember 4, 2025
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‘There’s this fake narrative that the Democrats talk about, affordability’: Trump keeps dismissing cost of living as his party struggles to hold seats
By Meg Kinnard, Joey Cappelletti and The Associated PressDecember 4, 2025
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Fed officials like the mystique of being seen as financial technocrats, but it’s time to demystify the central bank
By Alexander William SalterDecember 4, 2025
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Delta took $200 million hit from longest government shutdown in history, filings reveal
By Rio Yamat and The Associated PressDecember 4, 2025
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Two months into the new fiscal year and the U.S. government is already spending more than $10 billion a week servicing national debt
By Eleanor PringleDecember 4, 2025
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Bank of America predicts an ‘air pocket,’ not an AI bubble, fueled by mountains of debt piling up from the data center rush
By Sasha RogelbergDecember 3, 2025
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