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Finance

‘I just don’t have a good feeling about this’: Top economist Claudia Sahm says the economy quietly shifted and everyone’s now looking at the wrong alarm

Economy

Jerome Powell warned his successor to stay out of elected politics and offered other advice. Here’s what Kevin Warsh might do as Fed chair

Right before Trump named Warsh to lead the Fed, Powell seemed to respond to some of his biggest complaints about the central bank

Trump’s Greenland play comes with Russia and China running circles around the US in the Arctic as expert sees ‘big game of catch-up’

Another ‘central casting’ central banker: Trump’s pick of Kevin Warsh fits a well-established pattern

Banking

Exxon and Chevron decline new spending in Venezuela while taking a wait-and-see approach for the years ahead

Jerome Powell warned his successor to stay out of elected politics and offered other advice. Here’s what Kevin Warsh might do as Fed chair

Bitcoin’s freefall approaches $80,000 as precious metals also tank

‘We’ll save the world from cancer’: Inside Pfizer CEO’s $23 billion post‑COVID bet on oncology

Personal Finance

Should you use a personal loan to pay wedding expenses?

Kayla Itsines became a millionaire at 22 and sold her fitness app for $400 million—buying a gas station paid her rent

Current price of gold as of January 30, 2026

Current price of platinum as of Friday, January 30, 2026

Investing

The crypto industry used to store Bitcoin in Swiss vaults. Now one firm is using vaults to hold gold instead

A reported OpenAI IPO later this year may test investor tolerance for the AI boom’s cash bonfire

Kayla Itsines became a millionaire at 22 and sold her fitness app for $400 million—buying a gas station paid her rent

Indonesia exchange CEO steps down as MSCI reform pressure mounts

Real Estate

Current mortgage rates report for Jan. 30, 2026

Current refi mortgage rates report for Jan. 30, 2026

Current ARM mortgage rates report for Jan. 30, 2026

Sergey Brin makes his biggest donation ever to tackle California’s housing crisis, weeks after moving to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe

Energy

Exxon and Chevron decline new spending in Venezuela while taking a wait-and-see approach for the years ahead

Trump’s Greenland play comes with Russia and China running circles around the US in the Arctic as expert sees ‘big game of catch-up’

Trump moves to slap tariffs on any countries selling oil to Cuba, putting Mexico in a bind

Rubio confirms oil sales from Venezuela will get deposited into U.S.-controlled account first

Crypto

Bitcoin’s freefall approaches $80,000 as precious metals also tank

The crypto industry used to store Bitcoin in Swiss vaults. Now one firm is using vaults to hold gold instead

Landmark crypto bill clears Senate hurdle but Democrats withhold support over lack of ‘gryfto’ rules to prevent Trump family conflicts of interest

Why the New York Stock Exchange’s big blockchain plans might be pie in the sky

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Don’t hold your breath for a Fed rate cut anytime soon. In fact, some say a hike could be in the cards

Exclusive: Pace raises $10 million from Sequoia as enterprise AI collides with insurance

Fortune 500 Europe 2026: revealing the leading firms defining Europe’s global future

Crypto giant Tether has $187 billion in assets, big plans for U.S. expansion—and a CEO who warns the West is heading toward social collapse

Current mortgage rates report for Jan. 27, 2026

Current ARM mortgage rates report for Jan. 27, 2026

Current refi mortgage rates report for Jan. 27, 2026

The British retailer riding the wave of America’s always booming sneaker market

Trump threatens to hike tariffs on South Korea as national assembly has yet to approve last year’s trade deal

S&P 500 wins back all losses from Greenland dip, gold and silver surge even higher

Ray Dalio says the U.S. is a ‘tinderbox’ after the Minneapolis shooting and Trump risks a ‘more clear civil war’

Trump’s own Big Beautiful Bill could add $5.5 trillion to the deficit and help sabotage his plan to ‘grow out’ of the national debt crisis

The billion-dollar storm? Economists debate how much activity Winter Storm Fern laid waste to

Trump’s latest retribution hits Booz Allen, whose contractor was charged with leaking tax returns to the press

Ryan Serhant thinks the American Dream was just a ‘slogan created by banks,’ but it was really about FDR, the Great Depression, and an economic crisis

Trump administration buys stake in USA Rare Earth as wave of government deals in critical minerals continues

Job seekers are suing an AI hiring tool used by Microsoft and Paypal for allegedly compiling secretive reports that help employers screen candidates

Best gold IRA companies 2026: Clear winners among the sea of options

This Hong Kong billionaire invests 25% of his wealth in gold: ‘If you have the physical gold … nobody owes you anything’

Law school admissions expert sees ‘dangerous one-two punch’ as Gen Z seeks shelter from the AI hiring storm in 6-figure debt and law-degree lifeboat

Strategy buys more Bitcoin—$264 million of it—even as Bitcoin slumps to $87,000

Prediction markets can take bets on outlandish events that ‘get laundered into legitimacy,’ Gen Z’s favorite economic commentator warns

Trump’s economy is the ‘least conservative’ in a lifetime, top economist warns. ‘Our kids will feel it in a set of lost opportunities’

Trump’s erratic, chaotic shifts in strategy follow a long tradition. Here’s what to know about the ‘Madman Theory’ of politics

Trump changed the law to get your tax refund to you early. Too bad it leaves the 6 million ‘unbanked’ behind

Current price of platinum as of Monday, January 26, 2026

Current price of silver as of Monday, January 26, 2026

Personal loan APRs on Jan. 26, 2026

Current price of gold as of January 26, 2026

Yes, you’re getting a bigger tax refund. Your kids won’t thank you for the $3 trillion it’s adding to the deficit

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