Business
The Treasury Bond Buyback Is Failing (just accept it)
The US Treasury is buying back its own bonds to push interest rates down, and rates keep rising anyway. Why the buyback is failing.
Economy
The big machine: central banks, GDP, taxes and trade, and why it shows up in your wallet.
Stickman: finance
Apple's $2.2 Billion Tariff Refund (It's Worse Than You Think)
Apple got a $2.2 billion refund from the government in tariff exclusions while you kept paying the higher prices those tariffs caused.
Stickman: finance
The $650 Million Beef Squeeze Nobody Sees Coming
You're paying record prices for ground beef. The rancher is barely breaking even. The meatpacker is losing hundreds of millions. Everyone's turning over...
Stickman: finance
Tim Cook's Final Warning: The Memory Chip Flood
Apple posted record revenue and the stock dropped 7 percent, erasing $315 billion in hours. Tim Cook called the memory chip shortage a hundred-year flood...
Stickman: finance
The $140 Trillion Bond Market Pyramid Nobody Sees Coming
The US government spent $880 billion on interest in 2024, more than the entire defense budget. The global bond market is worth $140 trillion. Is it a...