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A Wall Street vet’s Walmart recession indicator just hit its highest point since 2008

Forget the Fed. Forget nonfarm employment. Forget even industrial production and real income. For Jim Paulsen, the real recession indicator

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Dollar dominance is reinforced by the oil trade, but the Iran war could give rise to the ‘petroyuan’

Middle East oil has long been a linchpin of the U.S. dollar’s status as the dominant currency in global trade

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A court just ruled that tech addiction is real—and dangerous. It could be Meta and YouTube’s Big Tobacco moment

A Los Angeles jury has sided with a young woman known as Kaley or KGM in a landmark case, ruling

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Trump’s border czar says ICE agents could guard exits and check IDs at airport screening areas

Federal immigration agents newly ordered to U.S. airports by President Donald Trump to help relieve security line congestion may guard exit lanes

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France is experiencing wave of crypto assault. One involved an influencer’s father doused with gasoline

Five people were arrested for allegedly dousing an influencer’s father in gasoline and forcing him into the trunk of a

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Trump’s ‘Art of the Deal’ can’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz — and it’s threatening a recession

Donald Trump has spent the better part of 40 years mastering a single, ruthless skill: making other people absorb his

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U.S. debt is like a Hallmark movie boyfriend who eventually gets dumped, budget watchdog warns 

This rom-com formula is now a staple of holiday TV programming: a busy professional from the big city goes back

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The national debt was already ballooning under Trump. Then came a $1 billion-a-day war with Iran

The United States was already on an unsustainable fiscal trajectory, adding to the national debt at breakneck speed, before it

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Peter Thiel warned AI is coming for ‘math people before word people.’ Banks see smaller payrolls

“It seems much worse for the math people than the word people,” he said in a recently resurfaced clip from a 2024

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Meet the social media CEO who bars his kids from social media: ‘Parents are oblivious to the world’

American teens today are clocking onto social media sites like it’s their day job, with more than half spending nearly