• Fed's View of Neutral, Reshuffled by Miran, a Key to Inflation Concerns
  
  New Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran might not have won converts to his call for steep interest rate cuts at last month's policy meeting, but his inaugural session has stirred fresh debate about how much rates are restricting the economy.
• Bank of England Warns of 'Sharp Correction' in Markets if Mood Sours on AI, Fed
  
  Global financial markets could tumble if investors' mood sours on the prospects for artificial intelligence or the independence of the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of England warned on Wednesday. The BoE said share price valuations on U.S. stock markets were similar to...
• Wall Street Futures Tick up With Fed Commentary, Minutes in Focus
  
  U.S. stock index futures inched higher on Wednesday after declines a day earlier as investors awaited commentary from Federal Reserve speakers and the release of minutes from the central bank's September policy meeting.
• Gold Futures Rise Above $4,000 per Ounce for 1st Time
  
  Gold futures have soared above $4,000 per troy ounce for the first time, as many investors seek a "safe haven" to park their money as the U.S. government shutdown continues. Gold futures in New York jumped above the $4,000 mark...
• US Weighs Selling Parts of $1.6T Federal Student Loan Portfolio
  
  President Donald Trump's administration is mulling options to sell off parts of the federal government's $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market, Politico reported Tuesday, citing three people familiar with the matter.
• Ipsos: 48 Percent Don't Have Any Money After Bills
  
  Nearly half of Americans have no money remaining after paying their bills, according to the Ipsos Consumer Tracker.
• Trump: Economy 'Best of All Worlds' for US
  
  President Donald Trump took to social media Monday morning to extol various parts of the U.S. economy that add up to "the best of all worlds" for the country.
• Wall Street Futures Rise as Investors Focus on AI, Rate-Cut Themes
  
  U.S. stock index futures rose on Monday, building on gains from last week as a flurry of AI-related dealmaking and softer labor market trends bolstered expectations for an interest-rate cut. The resilience in equities came despite a federal government shutdown stretching...
• Trump's Bull Market Triggers
  
  How Trump is Building the Age of Prosperity
• Fed's Goolsbee a 'Little Wary' of Front-Loading Too Many Rate Cuts
  
  Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee Friday said he was hesitant to commit to a series of interest rate cuts with inflation still running above the central bank's 2% target, echoing the concerns of several of his peers about the persistence of inflation for...
• Germany's Debt-Shuffling Machine
  
  Bundesbank and Audit Office Warn Against Shadow Budgets
• Alternate Sources Show September Sluggish for Jobs
  
  Alternate data from public and private sources showed the U.S. job market likely remained stalled in September, with sluggish hiring but no change in an unemployment rate economists see as heavily influenced by a decline in the number of foreign-born workers.
• AI Not Wiping Out Jobs: US Study
  
  Despite dire warnings from CEOs and tech leaders, fears that generative AI is rapidly replacing millions of workers appear overblown.
• Treasury Sec. Bessent: Dem Shutdown to Cut Trump's GDP Growth
  
  The Democrats' government shutdown could reduce gross domestic product (GDP) growth that has emerged under President Donald Trump, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday.
• Challenger: Year-to-Date Planned Hiring at Lowest in 16 Years
  
  U.S. employers announced fewer layoffs in September but hiring plans so far this year were the lowest since 2009, a report said Thursday, adding to evidence of a labor market standstill as the demand and supply of workers fall because of policy and technology...
• Chicago Fed: Sept. Unemployment Likely Steady at 4.3%
  
  The U.S. unemployment rate likely was 4.3% in September, unchanged from August, according to a new "real-time" estimate from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago published Thursday.
• EU's Exit Taxes Chain Citizens to Failing Systems
  
  More and more people are turning their backs on the European Union. With them, the states are also losing economic substance. Exit taxes are being used in an attempt to counter this.
• Financial Regulators Shut Down As Funding Runs Out
  
  U.S. market regulators began the process of furloughing workers Wednesday as the federal government shut down after Congress failed to extend funding, curtailing key oversight functions, stymieing initial public offerings, and limiting some market and economic data.
• Moment of Failure: German Bundestag Approves Budget
  
  The Bundestag passed the 2025 budget with the votes of the CDU, CSU, and SPD on September 18. The bottom line: record-breaking debt, serving only one purpose-patching the ever-widening fiscal holes.
• Supreme Court Lets Lisa Cook Remain Fed Governor - For Now
  
  The U.S. Supreme Court said Wednesday it will hear arguments in January over Donald Trump's attempt to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, leaving her in the post for now and teeing up a major legal battle over the first-ever bid by a president to fire a Fed official...
• Trump Nominates Travis Hill to Be Chair of FDIC
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump this week nominated Travis Hill, the acting chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, to lead the key U.S. bank regulator, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday, citing a White House official.
• US Private Payrolls Decline in September
  
  U.S. private payrolls dropped in September, the ADP employment report showed Wednesday.
• Trump Pulls Nominee to Lead Bureau of Labor Statistics
  
  The White House is withdrawing the nomination of E.J. Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to a White House official and an AP source who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the action, which has yet to be publicly announced.
• Trump Trade Chief: 55% China Tariffs 'Good Status Quo'
  
  U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports of around 55% are a "good status quo," but the Trump administration would like to find areas where bilateral trade could increase more freely, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Tuesday.
• Woke Extremes & the 'Northern Strategy'
  
  From Progressive to Regressive - The Economic Impact of Extremist Leftist Policies

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