‘Big Short’ investor Steve Eisman: Without AI, U.S. economy ‘is not even growing 50 basis points’
Billionaire investor Steve Eisman warns of a very different economic reality if one were to remove the gains…
US likely to fall into recession? Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi flags 22 states with persistent economic weakness
The US economy is on the verge of entering a damaging contraction, and many states are witnessing recession…
Ford CEO Jim Farley hopes AI will help blue-collar workers, but ‘it’s hard to say that today’
AI has disrupted entry-level white-collar employment, but blue-collar workers are still looking for clues on how the tech…
NIH funding and local employment
Funding levels for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have come under scrutiny since President Trump took office…
Trade war wild import swings, there’s no China decoupling
For the markets and economy, much of the first half of this year was dominated by President Trump’s…
Walmart CEO wants ‘everybody to make it to the other side’ and the retail giant will keep headcount flat for now even as AI changes every job
CEOs aren’t shying away from what labor market experts have been saying for months: AI is transforming the…
Ken Griffin has a warning for Trump and the GOP: ‘I would not underestimate how grating a 3% inflation rate could be’
For Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, the political implications of still-elevated inflation are not lost on him. Inflation has…
American Fears Deepen Over Rising Prices
Topline Americans’ concerns about the economy worsened this month as consumers expressed growing concerns about rising prices and…
Peter Thiel’s $5 billon tax-free account spurred a new 401(k) rule that now impacts high-earning Americans over 50
Older workers who earn above certain thresholds will soon lose the ability to make pre-tax 401(k) catch-up contributions,…
Employment impacts of the CHIPS Act
The $52.7 billion CHIPS and Science Act of August 2022 directly and indirectly created between 42,465 and 54,385…
Social Security chief says he won’t hike retirement age amid benefit cut fears
Social Security’s leadership says raising the retirement age is not under consideration after Commissioner Frank Bisignano walked back…
OECD lifts U.S., global growth forecasts as economies surprise to the upside
Container backlog occurs at Longtan Port Container Terminal in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, on September 21, 2025. (Photo…