3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (795+ words) Speaking at Southern Methodist University on Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dared currency traders, and indirectly the bond market, to challenge him as he wages a multi-front battle to stabilize markets amid Iran war turmoil while also trying to slow…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (338+ words) The federal interest burden has reached a new height, exceeding even the 1991 record, but analysts warn the risks associated with servicing the ever-growing national debt today are much higher than they were 35 years ago, analysts warn. Growing interest payments create…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (666+ words) The market for U.S. Treasuries has shown troubling signs lately, and rising yields are a clue that conditions are more dire than they appear, according to Robin Brooks, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. In a Substack post on Tuesday,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (378+ words) The DNB hasn’t reallocated all of its gold reserves outside North America—of the 612 tons it holds, 18.5% remains in New York and Ottawa. But the situation wasn’t lost on economists in the current climate, in which a series of actions…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (673+ words) Really? More oil is getting through the Strait now than before the war? Really? It appears that Wright is adding up transfers over multiple days into a single day, said Samir Madani, co-founder of TankerTrackers.com, jokingly calling it “mathemagics....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (580+ words) Good morning. The English are coming. So are the Dutch, Germans, Danish, Swiss and other Europeans driving growth in foreign direct investment in the U.S. right now. FDI rose by $266 billion to $5.86 trillion at the end of 2025, with Europe accounting for…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (580+ words) A heavy sell-off in U.S. government bonds is gaining momentum with anxiety about persistent inflation driving prices lower. The yield on the two-year Treasury, which closely tracks expectations about Fed moves, rose to 4.35%, on Tuesday. That’s up significantly from about 3.50% at…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (593+ words) As of 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil sold for $93.03 per barrel (using Brent as the benchmark, which we’ll get into momentarily). That’s $1.06 higher than yesterday morning and approximately a $25 rise over the past year. It’s impossible to predict the future of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (599+ words) At 6:30 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil was priced at $90.55 per barrel with Brent serving as the benchmark (we’ll explain different benchmarks later in this article). That’s a gain of 87 cents compared with yesterday morning and around $22.34 higher than the price one…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (773+ words) Baby boomers are collecting 265% of what they paid into Social Security—and millennials are paying the price Fortune Baby boomers are collecting 265% of what they paid into Social Security—and millennials are paying the price I’m 43 years old, and like…...