A spirited roundup of the biggest stories about the biggest businesses in the biggest economy in the world. New episodes Fridays at 10 a.m. ET.
Big Business This Week: Markets Shrug as Iran War Resumes
If you look at the actual financial charts, Wall Street and global investors are responding with little more than a collective, synchronized shrug.
Big Business This Week: Ask A Nobel Prize Winner: Can AI Save the American Dream?
The U.S. economy is being held up in part by the AI boom, but that boom could still lead to broader prosperity or inequality, says a Nobel Prize winner.
Big Business This Week: The three “economic shock channels” from the Iran war, apart from oil prices
The U.S. and Israeli bombing of Iran had a swift effect, if not on regime change, then at least on the global economy.
Big Business This Week: Will tariff policy ever stabilize enough so that big business can plan?
“Whatever you had planned, whatever you thought you knew is changed,” said one analyst this week following the overhaul of tariff policy.
Big Business This Week: It’s a sports book. It’s a casino. Wait. It’s a “prediction market?!”
Is a “prediction market” a gambling platform or an investment vehicle? That’s the question dividing state regulators from the Trump Administration.
Big Business This Week: Does the Dollar’s decline matter?
A quiet downturn has been underway since the beginning of the most recent Administration, as the U.S. dollar weakens. But does it matter?
Big Business This Week: The SaaS-pocalypse hits the tech markets
All it took was a gentle nudge for tech markets to fall significantly.
Big Business This Week: Can global prosperity survive a ‘Doom Loop’?
Have we seen the end of 80 years of increasing global prosperity and relative peace?
Big Business This Week: What happens when “Sell America” meets “TACO”?
How resilient are the U.S. markets? Will they always bounce back on the TACO trade? Or is it possible to go to far?
Big Business This Week: Will pressure on Fed chair Powell backfire?
The last 12 months have seen an extraordinary change in the way the U.S. economy works. Some analysts say that hasn’t been working out very well.
Big Business This Week: The $180 Billion gamble on Venezuela’s oil
Experts are finding it hard to see how the plan to exploit Venezuela’s oil makes business sense.
