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Getting Ready for Trump’s Tariffs

Getting Ready for Trump’s Tariffs By Peter Zeihan (originally recorded March 21) If you look back at my videos covering a potential future recession, you’ll...

Mass layoffs are underway at the nation’s public health agencies

Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being eliminated, part of a sweeping overhaul designed to vastly shrink the agencies responsible for protecting and promoting Americans’ health. The cuts include researchers, …

Elon Musk’s AI company just engulfed X for $33 billion — here’s what that means

Elon Musk has officially announced the sale of X in an "all-stock transaction" — but not to a competitor. Instead, the website formally known as …

PSW’s Weekly Webinar: Upcoming Tariffs & The Money Talk Portfolio

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Financial Crisis Within Striking Distance?

Financial Crisis Within Striking Distance? Courtesy of Chris Vermeulen, Technical Traders   David Lin and I discussed the recent market drop. Will it continue moving south, or...

Trump’s Tariffs: Is Economic Chaos the Plan?

Trump’s Tariffs: Is Economic Chaos the Plan? By Ilene (AI assisted) In his second term, President Donald Trump is taking a sledgehammer to global trade—again. But...

Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American

“Another wipeout walloped Wall Street Friday,” Stan Choe of the Associated Press wrote today. The S&P 500 had one of its worst days in two years, …

Lululemon CEO sounds alarm on unexpected customer behavior

The athletic apparel retailer is suffering from a concerning consumer trend. Lululemon (LULU) , which is famous for its high-end athletic wear, ended …

The Trump tariff ‘chain reaction’: America’s car and auto insurance payments could soar by $24 billion

Even if you’re not in the market for a new car, U.S. President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on auto imports could make owning one more expensive. The …

We Mapped DOGE’s Silicon Valley and Corporate Connections

If Elon Musk is America's CEO, DOGE is the Silicon Valley executive branch. Since the first days of the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s so-called …

Everything you say to an Alexa speaker will be sent to Amazon – starting today

Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered “agentic …

Use tariffs to shrink the trade deficit? Watch out for unintended consequences.

President Donald Trump believes that tariffs will shrink the trade deficit by getting more Americans to buy U.S. stuff instead of foreign stuff. But in economics, things don’t work quite that simply. There was this “Simpsons” episode where Homer traveled back in time to the age of the dinosaurs: “As …

The Tariff Man Is Coming for America’s Entrepreneurs (shared)

One small business has paid nearly $30,000 in the past two months. Over the past two months, Stuart and Susan Rosen say they have paid nearly $30,000 in tariffs to the American government. Their Burbank–based small business designs costume jewelry, manufactures it in China, imports it to the United …

Oil execs offer brutal early verdict on Trump trade policies

Executives in heart of the U.S. oil patch offered a brutal — if anonymous — verdict on Trump 2.0 trade policies and uncertainty they create for …

Top scientists warn that Trump policies are causing a ‘climate of fear’ in research

Nearly 2,000 leading American scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have issued a stark warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research and a growing "climate of fear" that jeopardizes independent research. An open letter from …

The best space telescope you never heard of just shut down

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication …

Top F.D.A. Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’

The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, resigned under pressure Friday and said that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public. “It has become clear that truth and transparency are not …

The Bird-Flu Tipping Point (shared)

If and when it happens, we might not know until it’s too late. Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Top U.S. health official Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently mused about a novel way to contain bird flu, which is to let it “run through the flock so that we can …

The Entire Future of American Public Health Is at Risk (shared)

The scariest thing about measles is probably not the related deaths, of which there have been two already this winter, the first in the United States in a decade. It may not even be the one-in-10,000 risk of irreversible lifelong paralysis, known as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. Instead, …