2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (454+ words) As U.S. prices for diesel fuel surge to all-time highs, some California pumps literally can’t price their diesel any higher—maxing out the display at $9.999 per gallon. Fuel-tracking firm GasBuddy reported Thursday that a small handful of California fueling stations hiked…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (510+ words) Welcome to Eye on AI. Beatrice Nolan here. In today’s issue: Anthropic has three very different visions for the impact AI will have on the U.S. economy. In the third, AI outperforms humans at nearly every knowledge-work task, does almost…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (507+ words) Earlier this year, fast-food executives began to use the term “two-tier economy” to describe the trend they were seeing of wealthier consumers splurging on burgers and fries while lower-income households pulled back. Last year, Amazon Web Services EMEA Managing Director…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (795+ words) Speaking at Southern Methodist University on Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dared currency traders, and indirectly the bond market, to challenge him as he wages a multi-front battle to stabilize markets amid Iran war turmoil while also trying to slow…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (638+ words) In February 1993, weeks into Bill Clinton’s presidency, James Carville famously quipped: “I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a.400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (243+ words) President Donald Trump’s first-term stimulus checks were a response to a pandemic he didn’t cause. His second-term cash promises are mostly a response to problems his own policies created, and now stretch to an election he may lose because of…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (356+ words) Mursal Rahim went to school for the first time within months of the Americans’ arrival in Afghanistan in 2001. Half a decade of Taliban control ended, and suddenly the doors of education were flung open. Mursal was only five, too young…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (905+ words) Republicans at their midterm convention know that history is not on their side this election season, but they are counting on President Donald Trump and his two-day extravaganza in Dallas to rally voters to protect their House and Senate majorities....

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (330+ words) President Donald Trump’s pledge to send every American adult a $5,000 check if Republicans hold Congress in November carries a price tag that economists say has no clear funding source — and would land on a federal balance sheet already strained by…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (612+ words) President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, an extraordinary gambit to reverse his party’s sagging fortunes in November. The dubious promise would most likely…...