Artificial intelligence and robotics are rapidly moving closer to the battlefield as Silicon Valley companies promote armed autonomous systems as the next major transformation in warfare. Supporters argue that robots could protect…
The Trump administration has announced a new 25% tariff on a wide range of Brazilian imports, marking a significant escalation in the trade dispute between the two largest economies in the Americas.…
The United States’ Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)—the nation’s emergency stockpile of crude oil—is showing signs of serious strain after years of repeated large-scale withdrawals, raising concerns about whether it will be able…
The U.S. coffee industry is asking the Trump administration to preserve tariff exemptions for Brazilian green coffee and expand them to include instant coffee, warning that new duties could raise prices for…
Global markets turned sharply uneasy after President Donald Trump cast doubt on the temporary truce in the war with Iran, sending oil prices higher and stock indexes lower as investors recalculated the…
America’s housing crisis is not a temporary market failure but the product of an old development model that no longer fits how Americans live. The central claim is that the United States…
The artificial intelligence boom is now reshaping credit markets as deeply as it has reshaped technology stocks. Banks are having to become more creative as borrowing tied to chips, cloud infrastructure and…
The rapid buildout of AI-driven data centers is emerging as a new source of inflation in the U.S. economy, adding fresh price pressure just as earlier waves from tariffs and energy shocks…
Global markets on June 24 were pulled in two opposite directions at once: easing inflation fears offered real relief, but that optimism was smothered by renewed anxiety around expensive technology stocks and…
The U.S. dollar climbed to its strongest level in more than a year as investors increasingly bet that the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates again and sought safety amid a sharp…
