Quick hits.Rep. Chris Pappas (D) and former Sen. John Sununu (R) advanced in their respective Senate primaries in New Hampshire in the race to replace retiring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D). (The result<\/a>)The United Kingdom banned trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank in response to what the country described as ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israeli settlers; France and Canada announced they will implement similar policies. (The ban<\/a>)Houthi rebels in Yemen struck energy and civilian sites in Saudi Arabia, wounding at least 73 people and halting operations at some energy facilities. (The strikes<\/a>)The Trump administration filed an emergency application asking the Supreme Court to lift a block on a federal citizenship database ahead of the midterm elections. (The request<\/a>)New York City released documents that appear to show that city officials were aware of air-quality health risks in the aftermath of the 9\/11 attacks but withheld the information from the public. (The documents<\/a>) <\/p>\n Today\u2019s topic. <\/p>\n The latest economic signals. In the run-up to the November midterm elections, new reports on key economic indicators have shed light on the state of the U.S. economy. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will meet next week for the third time under Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh to consider changes to the interest rate in light of a strong jobs report and persistent inflation. Meanwhile, the Iran war and a burgeoning trade dispute with Canada have added new variables to the economic picture.\u00a0<\/p>\n On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported<\/a> that the U.S. economy added 162,000 nonfarm jobs in August, significantly exceeding economists\u2019 projections, and the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.1%. Furthermore, the jobs numbers for June and July were revised upward by 11,000 and 44,000, respectively.<\/p>\n Separately, in August, the bureau released<\/a> its latest inflation report, finding that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 0.1% from June to July and 3.4% from the year prior. Energy prices, which surged earlier this year after the start of the Iran war, fell<\/a> 1.5% on a monthly basis but have risen 14.7% over the past 12 months. The August CPI report will be released on Friday.<\/p>\n Also in August, the University of Michigan\u2019s survey of consumers found<\/a> that consumer sentiment fell 6.3% between July and August and 11.2% year-over-year. The next consumer sentiment report will also be released on Friday.<\/p>\n President Donald Trump and other administration officials have called on<\/a> the Fed to lower interest rates ahead of next week\u2019s meeting. On Friday, Trump touted the latest jobs report and said<\/a> he would halt trade with countries with which the United States has a trade deficit if the FOMC does not cut rates. However, Chairman Warsh has recently suggested that the committee is weighing a rate increase if inflation does not begin to cool.<\/p>\n Energy prices have been impacted by developments in the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran and the U.S. military have imposed restrictions preventing oil tankers and other commercial vessels from transiting the waterway. While the strait remains largely closed, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said<\/a> last Wednesday that over 17 million barrels of crude oil exited the Persian Gulf on Monday, August 31, reaching a high since the war disrupted the roughly 20-million-barrel daily average<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Finally, on Tuesday, Canada imposed<\/a> tariffs on $20 billion in U.S. goods in retaliation for U.S. tariffs<\/a> on $20 billion in Canadian goods levied on August 22. Both countries are now tariffing an array of goods, with Canada\u2019s duties expected to have an outsized impact on manufacturers in Midwestern states. \t<\/p>\n Below are views from the left and right on the state of the U.S. economy. After that, Managing Editor Ari Weitzman gives his take.<\/p>\n The left is worried about the economy, especially the labor market.Some blame President Trump\u2019s policies for market stagnation.Others think artificial intelligence is driving some economic uncertainty.<\/p>\n On his Substack, Robert Reich discussed \u201cthe biggest problem facing the U.S. economy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe Labor Department reported [last Friday] that the United States added 162,000 jobs in August. That\u2019s more than expected, especially given how few jobs the country has added over the last few months,\u201d Reich wrote. \u201cBut there are three real reasons to be concerned\u2026 Prices continue to rise faster than wages \u2014 which means most Americans are getting poorer. Average hourly earnings rose by just 10 cents, or 0.3%, for the month. That brings the year-to-year increase in hourly earnings to 3.1%. But prices have risen 3.4% over the year.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnother concern I have is that while employers aren\u2019t firing many workers, they\u2019re also not hiring. A low-hire, low-fire labor market doesn\u2019t create opportunities for advancement. It\u2019s also difficult for young people to get into,\u201d Reich said. \u201c[Trump is] interfering in the jobs market and the economy in ways that will make things worse. Bad enough that he\u2019s waging a costly war in Iran and imposing costly tariffs around the world \u2014 both of which are driving up prices\u2026 The biggest problem facing the U.S. economy right now is Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n In MS NOW, Steve Benen said \u201cTrump trips over his economic illiteracy (again).\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cDonald Trump frequently makes comments about the economy, the vast majority of which are plainly wrong,\u201d Benen wrote. \u201c[On Friday], the president threatened to curtail all trade with a wide swath of U.S. trading partners unless the Federal Reserve agreed to slash interest rates\u2026 This was a mess for all sorts of reasons. The Fed functions as an independent entity, which is not supposed to raise or lower interest rates in response to White House extortion schemes. But Trump made things worse by arguing that economic growth is wholly unrelated to inflation, and that we\u2019re entitled to lower interest rates, not because of economic conditions, but because he thinks we\u2019re awesome.<\/p>\n \u201cIn case this weren\u2019t quite enough, the president later celebrated good monthly job growth in August by pointing to what he described as \u2018the Trump Boom.\u2019 That didn\u2019t make sense, either,\u201d Benen said. \u201cSo far in 2026, the U.S. economy is generating roughly 80,000 jobs per month. While that\u2019s better than last year, it reflects a sharp decline from the final year of Joe Biden\u2019s presidency, when the economy added over 120,000 jobs per month. In fact, excluding the 2020 pandemic from the equation, the first year of Trump\u2019s current term was the worst for American job growth since the Great Recession, and the second year of Trump\u2019s current term is on track to [be] the second worst. That\u2019s the opposite of a \u2018boom.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n In Bloomberg, Jonathan Levin declared \u201cAmerica\u2019s labor market is paralyzed by policy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWhen you can\u2019t predict next quarter\u2019s bottom line, you\u2019re better off retaining optionality, delaying staffing decisions that can involve steep up-front costs and are difficult to reverse. So if you want to know why America\u2019s \u2018no hire, no fire\u2019 labor market has lasted as long as it has, blame the surfeit of uncertainty \u2014 much of it self-induced,\u201d Levin wrote. \u201cLayoffs remain mercifully low and unemployment is a respectable 4.1%, but new jobs are hard to come by\u2026 workers are hesitant to quit\u2026 and wage growth has softened.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWeak wage growth (average hourly earnings rose 3.1% from a year earlier even as consumer prices rose more than that) and the widespread nature of the hiring lull (spanning both white- and blue-collar jobs) suggest this is primarily about weak labor demand, not supply,\u201d Levin said. \u201cOne likely culprit I\u2019ve alluded to is the White House\u2019s endless barrage of shocks. Although some of them were foisted upon us or predate Trump 2.0\u2026 the latest have the White House as the instigator… Into this tempest emerges artificial intelligence, which challenges employers\u2019 math in more complex ways\u2026 Aware of the wide distribution of outcomes, companies are sitting on their hands.\u201d<\/p>\n What the right is saying.<\/p>\n The right is mixed on the latest economic news, with some arguing that Trump\u2019s economic policies are starting to bear fruit.Others criticize Canada\u2019s management of trade disputes.Still others say the president\u2019s call to lower interest rates is misguided.<\/p>\n In The New York Post, Daniel McCarthy said \u201cTrumponomics triumphs in US jobs report \u2014 just in time for the midterms.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAmerican manufacturing is on the rebound \u2014 and that good news could hardly come at a better time for President Donald Trump, as Republicans gird themselves for the midterm elections just two months from now,\u201d McCarthy wrote. \u201cManufacturing isn\u2019t the only sector that\u2019s on a hiring spree; businesses across the board added 162,000 new jobs in August\u2026 The workforce participation rate rose as well \u2014 which matters, because people who drop out of the labor force are invisible in unemployment rates that only count those who are looking for work.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis economy is pulling Americans who\u2019d given up hope off the sidelines and putting them to work. That\u2019s a success not only for Trump\u2019s economic policy, but for his immigration crackdown, too: It\u2019s no longer so easy for companies to abandon Americans by hiring foreign workers instead,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cEstablishment economists predicted none of this\u2026 Trump won\u2019t be on the ballot Nov. 3, but jobs will be \u2014 especially those in manufacturing. They\u2019ll be lost if a Democratic Congress adds its power to the campaign in the courts that\u2019s trying to drag America back to the age of offshoring.\u201d<\/p>\n In the Washington Examiner, Brandon Farris said \u201cTrump didn\u2019t threaten Canada\u2019s sovereignty. Carney just handed it to Beijing.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cCanadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says the United States asked Canada to surrender its sovereignty during trade negotiations that his government recently abandoned in dramatic fashion. The reality is exactly the opposite: Washington was asking Canada to do more to protect its own steel industry,\u201d Farris wrote. \u201cGlobal steel excess capacity reached 640 million metric tons in 2025, according to the Global Forum on Steel Excess Capacity. China is directly responsible for nearly 57% of that excess.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve seen what happens when Beijing gains control of strategically important supply chains. China has demonstrated its willingness to restrict access to critical materials to advance its geopolitical interests. Allowing the same dependence to develop in steel would threaten economic and national security,\u201d Farris said. \u201cSince President Donald Trump first imposed the Section 232 steel tariffs in 2018, steelmakers have announced or begun roughly $47 billion in projects to expand and modernize domestic production\u2026 The European Union, for example, is pursuing parallel measures to strengthen its steel industry. Canada has taken a different path.\u201d<\/p>\n In Blaze Media, Daniel Horowitz wrote \u201cTrump\u2019s interest-rate fantasy runs into debt gravity.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cYou can have very low interest rates, and you can have debt-driven inflation. You just can\u2019t have both at the same time. That is the reality President Trump refuses to recognize,\u201d Horowitz said. \u201cAt the core of the president\u2019s half-baked plan to resuscitate the economy is a return to the good old days of near-zero interest rates\u2026 He wants endless spending for his projects, he doesn\u2019t want the inflation it causes, and he wants to pay near-zero interest on the resulting record debt. Don\u2019t we all?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere is a simple reason the Fed can no longer wave a magic wand, return rates to near zero, and service the debt on the cheap as it did from the post-9\/11 recession through COVID,\u201d Horowitz wrote. \u201cOn September 11, 2001, gross federal debt was about $5.77 trillion, roughly 55% of GDP. In April 2007, before the financial crisis, it was about $8.84 trillion, or 63% of GDP. Today it exceeds $40 trillion and is roughly 123% of GDP. The long-term trajectory is even worse, because faster debt growth creates a vicious cycle: Treasury needs more buyers, inflation and fiscal risk force yields higher, and more existing debt rolls over at those higher rates.\u201d<\/p>\n My take.<\/p>\n Ari Weitzman<\/p>\n Managing Editor<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Usually, Tangle focuses on how policy choices impact the economy, but today I want to make some predictions.The Fed will raise rates this year, not cut them, and draw President Trump\u2019s ire.The national debt will keep rising, the AI bubble will burst, and higher education is facing a crisis.<\/p>\n Reminder: This is where we share a personal opinion. If you have feedback, criticism or compliments, leave a comment or reply to this email.<\/p>\n Throughout the second Trump administration, every update on the economy Tangle has published has been focused on the impacts of tariffs, the persistence of inflation, rising gas prices, affordability, and employment. Today, instead of looking back, I want to look forward and undertake a fool\u2019s errand: making predictions.<\/p>\n I\u2019m going to give you five predictions about the economy under the remainder of the Trump administration, starting with safe bets that will be proven correct or incorrect soon and increasing in both boldness and time horizon.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Warsh\u2013Trump honeymoon is ending.<\/p>\n Heat rating: \ud83c\udf36\ufe0f<\/p>\n Expiration: 10\/01\/2026<\/p>\n President Donald Trump\u2019s thoughts on former Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell are no secret. The president excoriated Powell for resisting rate cuts as the Fed continued its Sisyphean toil to deliver on its dual mandate, keeping employment up and inflation down. With inflation still above the Fed\u2019s 2% benchmark, justification for a rate cut has thus far eluded the new Fed chair.<\/p>\n September will not be a happy month for Trump.<\/p>\n First, with the easiest prediction possible, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is going to either hold or raise rates on September 16, as Fed Governor Christopher Waller recently signaled<\/a>. Waller\u2019s comments caused bond yields to briefly dip but immediately continue their upward trajectory that began in July<\/a> \u2014 and they spiked again<\/a> following last week\u2019s rosy jobs report. On the flip side of the macroeconomic equation, September has historically been the stock market\u2019s worst month<\/a> of the year, ending lower than it started about half the time since 1928.\u00a0<\/p>\n Extend the current benchmark rate of 3.5% or higher, add in high bond yields and a lethargic Dow, and multiply by high gas prices and uncertainty about tariffs \u2014 what do you get? Frustrated consumers, negative press about the economy coming into the midterms, and a president unhappy with his new Fed chairman.<\/p>\n I expect Trump to explicitly criticize Kevin Warsh at least once by the end of the month.<\/p>\n The Fed will raise the interest rate by 50 basis points this year.<\/p>\n Heat rating: \ud83c\udf36\ufe0f\ud83c\udf36\ufe0f<\/p>\n Expiration: 12\/09\/2026<\/p>\n It\u2019s almost too easy to predict a rate boost of 25 basis points (or a quarter of a percent) before the end of the year. All the signs point to it. If current projections hold, however, 50 basis points is just as likely.\u00a0<\/p>\n The FOMC has three more meetings left in the year, and all the sober economic analyses<\/a> you can find are predicting<\/a> at least one rate hike between now and the year\u2019s final meeting on December 9. The Fed watch tool<\/a> puts the odds of two rate hikes by December almost even with the chances of one, and basically no one who lives outside the White House or Mar-a-Lago is predicting a rate cut. If energy prices remain high and unemployment low, the Fed has no reason to cut rates and every reason to raise them.\u00a0<\/p>\n Watch for these two signals coming out on Friday. First, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the Consumer Price Index, a barometer the Fed uses to watch inflation. Economists expect<\/a> a 3.4% year-over-year increase in headline inflation, which would keep the metric well off of the Fed\u2019s 2% target. Their reasoning is simple: Gas prices remain high due to the war in Iran, and import prices are elevated due to tariffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n Second, the University of Michigan will release its consumer sentiment survey. I think I can predict the headline: Consumer sentiment is bad \u2014 still<\/a>! It\u2019s not only bad right now, but it\u2019s worse than it was at any point<\/a> in the Biden administration, when inflation was soaring and the vibecession was making headlines.\u00a0<\/p>\n Unless employment totally collapses, this equation equals more than one rate hike by the end of the year.<\/p>\n The national debt reaches $44 trillion by the end of 2027.<\/p>\n Heat rating: \ud83c\udf36\ufe0f\ud83c\udf36\ufe0f\ud83c\udf36\ufe0f<\/p>\n Expiration: 12\/31\/2027<\/p>\n The national debt equation is only marginally more complex than predicting rate increases. Obviously, if the Fed\u2019s borrowing rate is high, then the government\u2019s debt becomes more expensive. And as we repeat in Tangle just about every week at this point, servicing our national debt is now the federal government\u2019s third-largest expense; so if that line item gets larger, the projected deficit gets higher.<\/p>\n Our current gross national debt is already over $40 trillion<\/a>. For the last fiscal year, the federal deficit was approximately $1.8 trillion<\/a>, and the Congressional Budget Office projects<\/a> expenses to continue to outpace income for the current fiscal year. That adds about $2 trillion to the current figure; factoring in interest and inflation, and forgetting the idea<\/a> of any significant spending cuts, equals a minimum of $43 trillion in national debt by the end of next year. Taking the extra leap to get to $44 trillion isn\u2019t difficult \u2014 it just requires a little bit of pessimism.<\/p>\n Do you expect tariffs and oil disruption to continue? Do you think Congress will pass tax hikes and\/or budget cuts? If you answered yes and no, respectively, then you\u2019re probably looking at a national debt figure that is racing further and further away from us.<\/p>\n The AI bubble will burst, and it will be weird.<\/p>\n Heat rating: \ud83c\udf36\ufe0f\ud83c\udf36\ufe0f\ud83c\udf36\ufe0f\ud83c\udf36\ufe0f<\/p>\n Expiration: 9\/9\/2028<\/p>\n As blogger Rusty Foster memorably put it<\/a> last year, the economy just might be three AI data centers in a trench coat. Some estimates attribute<\/a> as much as 30% of our GDP growth to investment in artificial intelligence and data center infrastructure. If you think AI is the future and that demand for the technology will continue to ride a line with a slope so steep you\u2019ll need crampons and axes, then this is good news. But if you believe<\/a> that data center construction is based on projections that are too rosy to be believed, then that figure is concerning.<\/p>\n Data centers are a political liability. CEOs are reporting that they\u2019re investing in AI not as part of their business strategy but because they\u2019re afraid not to<\/a>. Maybe a future approach to AI will be different, but LLM technology seems to be at its natural ceiling. If these models fail to meet their unbelievable projections<\/a>, then we\u2019re not looking at a technologically revolutionized society but instead a much older and more common tale: a bubble.\u00a0<\/p>\n Typically, when bubbles pop, they crater a part of the economy. The AI bubble, though, will be different because it will probably be bad for capital investors and good for workers<\/a>. Already, blue-collar workers and those without college degrees are experiencing a very good job market<\/a> \u2014 if AI doesn\u2019t automate out the lower rungs of the career ladder, then that job market is set up to withstand a bursting bubble.<\/p>\n I\u2019m more concerned about the interaction of those two conditions: investors facing losses and workers facing opportunities. When conditions get rough, the haves tend to always end up ahead of the have-nots, and lay-offs follow closely behind lagging corporate earnings. When companies can instead decide to cut down their AI investments, though, that equation could look different. I expect that in two years, AI advancement will have waned and the unemployment rate will remain somewhere in the 3.5%\u20134.5% range.<\/p>\n Colleges will close, and soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n Heat rating: \ud83c\udf36\ufe0f\ud83c\udf36\ufe0f\ud83c\udf36\ufe0f\ud83c\udf36\ufe0f\ud83c\udf36\ufe0f<\/p>\n Expiration: 12\/31\/2028<\/p>\n The federal government isn\u2019t the only major institution facing annual budget shortfalls. All across the country, our institutions of higher learning are bleeding money. A recent Wall Street Journal report<\/a> looked at Syracuse University to provide an example of the headwinds some schools are facing: Enrollment rates are lower, students increasingly only want to go to school in nicer climates, and the federal government is investing less in research grants that universities depend upon.<\/p>\n That\u2019s bad for schools like Syracuse in the university-dense Northeast. But take a step back: Colleges are simply struggling to deliver on their value proposition. If tuition continues to rise and the job market continues to improve for those without college degrees \u2014 while the biggest and most accessible product AI has delivered is the ability to churn out passable term papers \u2014 why would parents continue to shell out their life\u2019s savings to send their kids to \u201cAI Cheaters Luxury Camp?\u201d<\/a> They won\u2019t.<\/p>\n My favorite writer on the beat of issues in higher education is former professor<\/a> Tyler Austin Harper. Here\u2019s his take<\/a> on the issue: \u201cPeople are under-pricing the possibility of a black-swan-esque event where significant chunks of higher ed collapse suddenly. At some point parents will decide they will not pay $100\u2013400k combined for their kids to cheat their way through college. I expect a bang, not a whimper.\u201d<\/p>\n I think he\u2019s right. By the end of 2028, I wager not one but several major universities will announce they will be shutting their iron gates for good.<\/p>\n Take the survey: What do you think of Ari\u2019s predictions? Let us know<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Disagree? That\u2019s okay. Our opinion is just one of many. Write in and let us know why, and we\u2019ll consider publishing your feedback.<\/p>\n This day in history. On September 9, 1976, Mao Zedong, leader of China and one of the most infamous figures of the Cold War, died at 82. In 1921, at 27 years old, Mao was a founding member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As various warlords in a fractured China failed to unify under one government, the CCP and the Kuomintang nationalist party (KMT) allied in an attempt to form a cohesive country. By 1927, KMT leader Chiang Kai-shek turned against the communists, removing them from powerful positions within the party, and eventually resulting in a nationwide massacre<\/a> of hundreds of thousands of communists. In 1934, the CCP marched 6,000 miles under threat of the nationalists to relocate to Northwestern China. Mao began the trek as a follower, but he became the undisputed leader of the party the next year.<\/p>\n When the CCP won the Chinese Civil War in 1949, Chiang and the Kuomintang fled to Taiwan, and the communist People\u2019s Republic of China was established with Mao as its leader. In the 1950s, China joined the Korean War on behalf of communist North Korea and began Mao\u2019s attempt to shift China from an agrarian to an industrial society with the \u201cGreat Leap Forward<\/a>.\u201d That initiative resulted in one of the worst famines in recorded history, killing between 15 and 45 million people. In the 60s, Mao led the \u201cCultural Revolution,\u201d an attempt to eliminate capitalist elements of Chinese society, in which an additional one to two million were killed. However, after a long period of hostility, Mao began to improve relations with the United States in the 70s, culminating in President Richard Nixon\u2019s trip to China<\/a> in 1972.\u00a0<\/p>\n Following his death in 1976, Mao\u2019s hand-picked successor Hua Guofeng briefly took control before being outmaneuvered by reformers, who took power and shifted China towards market socialism.\u00a0 <\/p>\n One year ago today we covered the August 2025 jobs report<\/a>.\u00a0The most clicked link in our last regular newsletter was for the free newsletter from Snopes<\/a>, which fact-checks the top news stories of the day.Nothing to do with politics: Aapo \u201cThe Angus\u201d Rautio defends his Air Guitar World Championship title<\/a>.Our last survey: 3,048 readers responded to our survey on the state of the U.S. military under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, with 80% saying they are highly concerned about the military\u2019s preparedness. \u201cHegseth needs to go. He is a disaster for the US military,\u201d one respondent said. \u201cI am not concerned, because the military budget is so high. They can move resources around to where they are needed,\u201d said another. Living to 91 is a feat worth celebrating in itself, but Dale Sanders has upped the ante for all nonagenarians. On the final day of August, Sanders (trail name: Grey Beard) completed the 2,193-mile thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail, summiting Maine\u2019s Mount Katahdin at the trail\u2019s northern terminus. He is now the oldest hiker to complete a thru-hike, beating the record set by his then-83-year-old friend M.J. Eberhart (trail name: Nimblewill Nomad) in 2021. Sanders estimated that he fell 71 times during the hike, including one that put him in the hospital and another just 200 yards from Katahdin\u2019s summit. But he never lost sight of his goal. \u201cI had to thank God, and I had to thank my support team and everybody that got me here,\u201d he said. 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<\/p>\nOfficial portrait of Mao Zedong taken in 1950 | Chen Zhengqing\u00a0<\/p>\n
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