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In response to new Trump tariffs, China cut dysprosium, terbium, and tungsten exports—hitting U.S. EVs, wind, and military systems hard.

Hands Off was in fact a blow against fascism.

A plan to harness grassroots energy—and to hold Democratic leaders accountable.

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of Visa’s history and current business strategy.

State of the newsletter 2025, a vacation, a new book, and some thoughts upon the 1-year anniversary of moving The Reframe.

The takeover returns St. Louis to a Civil War-era arrangement of state control. A local official calls the move "a clear gesture of white men wanting to control urban areas."

In recently unearthed videos, Project 2025 outlines for potential future political appointees the myriad of ways they should hide their tactics from public scrutiny:

“RISC architecture is gonna change everything.” Those absurdly geeky, incredibly prophetic words were spoken 30 years ago. Today, they’re somehow truer than ever.

How do booms and busts in asset prices, in particular for stocks and real estate, relate to financial crises? And why are such bubbles difficult to predict?

Shows the daily level of the federal funds rate back to 1954. The fed funds rate is the interest rate at which depository institutions (banks and credit unions) lend reserve balances to other depository institutions overnight, on an uncollateralized basis. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets eight times a year to determine the federal funds target rate.

Sales: Retail Trade: Total Retail Trade: Volume for United States

Total Debt to Equity for United States

12-Month Moving Average of Weighted Median Hourly Wage Growth: Overall

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index is a composite of single-family home price indices for the nine U.S. Census divisions and is calculated monthly. It is included

S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index

Find the latest information on NASDAQ-100 Technology Sector Index (NDXT), including data, charts, related news, and more from Nasdaq.com

(Reuters) -Elon Musk's xAI has acquired X in a deal that values the social media platform at $33 billion and allows the value of his artificial intelligence firm to be shared with his co-investors in the company formerly known as Twitter. The deal could also help xAI's ability to train its chatbot known as Grok. "xAI and X's futures are intertwined," Musk, who also heads automaker Tesla and SpaceX, wrote in a post on X: "Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent."

Efficiency slices and barges its way through delicate structures, leaving the most vulnerable flailing