3+ week, 13+ hour ago   (621+ words) With U.S. debt hitting $40 trillion, markets are turning more attention to that burden and whether policymakers will address the root causes or just the symptoms. The Treasury Department’s interventions in the bond and currency markets in recent weeks point to the…...

3+ week, 17+ hour ago   (729+ words) Bitcoin and gold shot higher this week, with both getting a boost from some frantic action surrounding the bond market, and the cryptocurrency also benefiting from activity in Washington. Bitcoin had dropped from a January high of around $95,000 to below…...

3+ week, 17+ hour ago   (565+ words) The billionaire exodus from the West Coast to Florida is underway as the ultrawealthy seek refuge from wealth taxes in states like California and Washington. The tech titans and Schultz join Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter…...

3+ week, 22+ hour ago   (467+ words) Phillip Grant is feeling optimistic. He thinks he’s the best man to operate Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-run supermarkets. Along with being a former city economic development executive and construction entrepreneur, he’s a New Yorker who’s shocked that an orange costs…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (816+ words) The United States had offered to reduce its tariffs on steel, aluminum and autos, and eliminate a recently imposed tariff on Canadian lumber, before negotiations suddenly collapsed last night, Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, said Saturday. In an interview with…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (564+ words) A Costco, gas station and lineup of restaurants could soon turn a quiet Bakersfield-area neighborhood into a major shopping destination — and neighbors are already bracing for the crowds. Tammy York, who lives directly across from the proposed development in Gossamer…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (157+ words) The transactions totaled between $78.1 million and $263.1 million in the filing published by the US Office of Government Ethics, which shows a range for each transaction rather than exact numbers. The largest transaction was a June 22 sale of between $5 million and…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1138+ words) The morning after he pulled negotiators from trade talks in Washington and set off a new round of American tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney called the U.S. proposal “a bad deal” and said Canada was “at war” with the United States....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (719+ words) The United States had offered to reduce its tariffs on steel, aluminum and autos, and eliminate a recently imposed tariff on Canadian lumber, before negotiations suddenly collapsed last night, Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, said Saturday. In an interview with…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (591+ words) America’s largest trade association of cattle producers says President Donald Trump’s plan to lower beef prices is political theater. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, which represents more than 175,000 cattle producers and feeders, said on Friday that the strategy would do…...