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How Worried Should We Be About the Economy?

How Worried Should We Be About the Economy? A conversation with Neil Dutta By Paul Krugman   Suddenly, everyone is pessimistic. The “Trump bump” in stocks seems like a distant memory; consumer confidence has plunged; there’s recession talk everywhere. But is the pessimism overdone? Honestly, I don’t fully trust...
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How Worried Should We Be About the Economy?

How Worried Should We Be About the Economy? A conversation with Neil Dutta By Paul Krugman   Suddenly, everyone is pessimistic. The “Trump bump” in stocks seems like...

Ian Bremmer on 50 Days of Trump

Ian Bremmer on 50 Days of Trump By Foreign Policy FP’s Ravi Agrawal sat down with geopolitical risk expert Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia...

PSW’s Weekly Webinar: Crashing and Burning!

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Trump Is Unleashing a Chaos Economy (shared, updated)

Businesses cannot thrive under this much uncertainty. Americans hold all sorts of views on tariffs. Some are opposed on free-market grounds. Others are in favor for reasons of national security or to bring back American manufacturing. Those debates are part of a normal democratic process. But …

Who’s Running the DOGE Wrecking Machine: The World’s Richest Man or a Little-Known Bureaucrat?

Insiders tell ProPublica that Amy Gleason is only in charge on paper, while Musk’s top lieutenants really run DOGE. One person who has been in …

Whipsawed by Trump’s tariffs, the US public is getting a lot more nervous about the economy

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s volatile tariff threats are unleashing historic jumps in public anxiety, with the potential to undermine his pledges to strengthen a U.S. economy that is increasingly weakened. The University of Michigan’s index of consumer sentiment tumbled 10.5% on a …

IRS removes its chief counsel after clashing with DOGE over sharing tax info, AP reports

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service’s acting chief counsel, William Paul, has been removed from his role at the agency and replaced by …

Donald Trump’s foreign policy might be driven by simple spite – here’s what to do about it

Recent shifts in US foreign policy – particularly regarding tariffs and the war in Ukraine – have sparked debate over what is driving the Trump …

Government deficit rose 4% in Trump’s first full month in office, despite DOGE…

• Elon Musk’s cost-cutting efforts at the Department of Government Efficiency have yet to reduce the federal deficit overall; it more than doubled …

Trump’s Self-Inflicted Trade Disaster

US President Donald Trump’s import tariffs have triggered a wave of retaliatory measures, setting off a trade war with key partners and raising fears …

JPMorgan’s Scathing Tesla Prediction: Musk’s Car Company Will Report Worst Quarterly Deliveries In 3 Years

This will be Tesla’s weakest quarter for car deliveries since 2022, according to JPMorgan analysts, as the polarizing, powerful role of Tesla boss Elon Musk in President Donald Trump’s administration increasingly weighs on Tesla in the eyes of Wall Street. Key Facts In a Wednesday note to clients, …

As stock slumps drain America’s 401(k)s, Trump props up his billionaire sidekick

CNN — As Wall Street reeled for a second straight day on Tuesday, President Donald Trump chose not to appear with worried working people but to prop up the share prices and wealth of the world’s richest man – Elon Musk – with a bizarre sales pitch for Tesla on the White House South Lawn. The optics …

Don’t Invite a Recession In (shared)

Chaos, tariffs, and nervous consumers On the campaign trail last fall, President Donald Trump promised a “new era of soaring income, skyrocketing wealth, millions and millions of new jobs, and a booming middle class. We are going to boom like we’ve never boomed before.” On Fox News this weekend, he …

Trump’s DOGE campaign accelerates 50-year trend of government privatization

Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has aggressively moved to shrink the federal government. His administration has frozen federal …

America Can’t Be Great if America Is Stupid

On this fifth anniversary of the Covid pandemic, there is ample examination of what America got wrong. But what America got right was the astonishingly quick development of effective vaccines. That effort, Operation Warp Speed, began toward the end of President Trump’s first term in the White House. …

‘We are going to regret this’: Doctor issues stark warning about Musk’s cuts

Dr. Craig Spencer, a Brown University School of Public Health professor, discusses the greater implications of Elon Musk's DOGE cuts in the health sector.

5 years since COVID was declared a pandemic, we’re still poorly prepared for the next one

On March 11 2020, as COVID continued to spread rapidly around the globe, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared a pandemic. More than …

Robert F. Kennedy Jr says vitamin A protects you from deadly measles. Here’s what the study he cites actually says

Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who oversees the health of more than 340 million Americans, says vitamin A can prevent the worst effects of measles rather than …

The Texas Measles Outbreak Is Even Scarier Than It Looks

The Texas Measles Outbreak Is Even Scarier Than It Looks By Zeynep Tufekci, NY Times The news that an outbreak in Texas has caused the nation’s...