Weekend Listen: Japan’s $2 Trillion ‘Dementia Money’ Cliff
Japan is home to the world’s oldest population and a growing share of the country’s financial assets – about $2 trillion – are controlled by seniors who are showing signs of cognitive decline. On toda...
25 Jan 18min
Banks Really Hate Trump’s Credit Card Proposal
President Trump has revived a campaign pledge to cap credit card interest rates at 10%. It’s an effort to address affordability concerns among American consumers and help borrowers. But the banking in...
23 Jan 11min
SCOTUS Weighs Fed Independence
Across the ideological spectrum, Supreme Court justices appeared wary of President Trump’s attempts to fire Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook in a hearing on Wednesday. Their ruling, which is s...
22 Jan 19min
Trump Takes Europe to the Brink on Greenland
In an unprecedented speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Donald Trump ruled out taking Greenland by military force, but made his case for the US purchasing what he descr...
21 Jan 19min
Inside ICE’s Plan to Build Detention ‘Mega Centers’
ICE has been open about its aggressive detention and deportation targets. And now, the agency has its sights set on a new kind of facility to house the people it arrests: converted warehouses that cou...
20 Jan 19min
Trump’s Economy, One (Second) Year In
This week marks the end of President Trump’s first year back in office. His busy economic agenda included global tariffs, deregulation, tax cuts and so much more. The deep and dramatic changes the Tru...
19 Jan 17min
The Domino Effect of the ‘Donroe Doctrine’
For Beijing, the US capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was a mixed bag -- an embarrassing surprise, a wake-up call over its alliances in Latin America and an opening to step up on the worl...
16 Jan 19min
Trump’s Latest Target: Corporate Landlords
Since the 2008 financial crisis, private equity firms and other large investors have bought hundreds of thousands of homes across the US, expanding their footprint in the American real estate market. ...
15 Jan 18min
