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10-year Treasury yield tops 5% as oil surges and diesel hits all-time highNBC News 10-year Treasury yield hits 5%, critical threshold for US economy and marketsCNN Stock Market Today: Dow Slip; Oil Prices Surge; …

10-year Treasury yield tops 5% as oil surges and diesel hits all-time highNBC News 10-year Treasury yield hits 5%, critical threshold for US economy and marketsCNN Stock Market Today: Dow Slip; Oil Prices Surge; Nvdia Stock Down — Live UpdatesWSJ US 10-year y… The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

Opposition lawmakers are advancing a proposal to make the US dollar Venezuela’s official currency after years of inflation and economic turmoil. Sep. 14, 2026 A proposal to formally adopt the US dollar is moving …

Opposition lawmakers are advancing a proposal to make the US dollar Venezuela’s official currency after years of inflation and economic turmoil. Sep. 14, 2026 A proposal to formally adopt the US dollar is moving into Venezuela’s political mainstream as the country seeks to stabilize an economy battered by years of inflation and turmoil. Opposition lawmaker Antonio Ecarri is working with US economist Steve Hanke on legislation that would replace the bolivar with the dollar across Venezuela’s financial system. Gloria Ask anything about any stock — Gloria Finance gives you a complete, data-backed answer in seconds. Ask Gloria → More than half of Venezuelans support the idea, according to a May AtlasIntel survey for Bloomberg News. Advertisement Dollars are already widely used for pricing and savings after hyperinflation pushed businesses and households toward the US currency around 2019. Under official dollarization, bolivar cash, deposits, debts, contracts, and wages would be converted into dollars at a set exchange rate. The news moving money, markets, and the world—before your day starts. Daily. Free. Join 34,000+ readers across crypto, finance, and policy. Email address Subscribe free We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe anytime. Ecarri plans to present the proposal to the National Assembly, but its president, Jorge Rodríguez, has rejected the idea. He cited constitutional provisions that establish the bolivar as Venezuela’s monetary unit and give the central bank authority over monetary policy. Supporters say dollarization could reduce inflation exposure, prevent deficit financing through money creation, and remove frictions from using two currencies. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has also said the dollar should become central to Venezuela’s trade, although the US government has not announced plans to replace the bolivar as legal tender. The plan would carry major trade-offs. Venezuela would lose control over its monetary policy and exchange rate, while its supply of dollars would depend on exports, investment, remittances, or external borrowing. Dollarization would not by itself guarantee fiscal discipline, revive oil production, restore credit markets, or attract investment.

Before President Donald Trump reels off angry Truth Social posts if the Federal Reserve hikes rates this week, he should look in the mirror: His policies are a big reason the central bank has …

Before President Donald Trump reels off angry Truth Social posts if the Federal Reserve hikes rates this week, he should look in the mirror: His policies are a big reason the central bank has to consider a rate increase. In March, one month after the beginnin… Before President Donald Trump reels off angry Truth Social posts if the Federal Reserve hikes rates this week, he should look in the mirror: His policies are a big reason the central bank has to cons…

The U.S. economy has remained resilient over the past two years despite a slowing labor market, trade wars and resurgent inflation, but economists are now warning that a convergence of new and lingering threats …

The U.S. economy has remained resilient over the past two years despite a slowing labor market, trade wars and resurgent inflation, but economists are now warning that a convergence of new and lingering threats could test its strength. The "worry list is grow… The U.S. economy has remained resilient over the past two years despite a slowing labor market, trade wars and resurgent inflation, but economists are now warning that a convergence of new and linger…

Last week, Anthropic published its prediction of what the economic impact of AI on the U.S. economy is going to be for the next few years. The company thinks the U.S. can reach a …

Last week, Anthropic published its prediction of what the economic impact of AI on the U.S. economy is going to be for the next few years. The company thinks the U.S. can reach a $44.4 trillion GDP or higher by 2030, provided, of course, it conveniently adopts AI at a rapid pace. Having said that, Anthropic admits "the challenge is making sure that the gains are broadly shared." The interactive post has a simulator where readers can plug in their estimates on key factors and get their own future predictions, within the firm's analysis and perspective. That's definitely interesting to play around with, but perhaps the most relevant piece of information is the lens through which Anthropic views the world. Anthropic establishes its reasoning by first placing tasks in broad categories and using a nurse's workday as an example. They removed tasks, including those that will disappear naturally as technology progresses, like collecting data on paper or physically visiting the patient to collect basic vitals — neither happens anymore as remote monitoring becomes commonplace. However, some new tasks are added, like keeping an eye on dashboards for the aforementioned AI-powered monitoring. Latest Videos From Tom's Hardware Watch full video here: Then, there are naturally the tasks that a bot can't perform, like bathing a patient. Augmented tasks include those that require a human, but can be made more efficient with AI: helping with triage, planning schedules, and assisting with dashboard data. Some tasks may be fully automated, like keeping supply closets full or scheduling follow-up patient visits. Finally, AI usage can introduce some tasks of its own, like reviewing automated triaging or double-checking dashboard alerts — perhaps even impromptu data recovery. The company's predictions broadly hinge on how ubiquitous AI usage becomes, and therefore, the number of tasks transitioning into fully or partially automated. Unsurprisingly, Anthropic believes that the more entrenched AI gets, the more value the country creates, though at greater risk — and on an exponential scale, no less Three models are presented, from "modest" economical impact to "extreme." The modest model establishes a 1.6% GDP rise to $34.1 trillion, an impact Anthropic says is in line with that of new technologies like the internet, and crucially, doesn't imply tectonic shifts to unemployment rates or wages. For the "substantial impact" scenario, although AI is predicted to be able to do half of "knowledge work," mostly without intervention, adoption remains limited. This scenario foresees twice the normal economic growth, this time +8.3% to $36.3 trillion. This future marks the inflection point at which Anthropic believes knowledge workers see their wages remain steady instead of growing, though it's not clear if the firm accounts for inflation. Additionally, the firm states that "knowledge workers may see a lot of automation and displacement [...] coders and call service center agents may have to switch to jobs like electrician and nurse", a statement some might argue is already true. In that sense, Anthropic expects other workers to start seeing more cash. The eyebrow-raising prediction for both the above scenarios, though, is that Anthropic expects unemployment to "stay within ranges history has seen before," an odd statement given modern U.S. history contains events like the Great Depression. The company does note that it expects job churn to increase, but also that while "this process can be painful, [it] works relatively well from a macroeconomic perspective." Average wages are expected to rise across all three scenarios, though the increase is expected to go towards workers outside of knowledge areas. In the "extreme" scenario, Anthropic expects significant changes. Should AI be super-widely adopted, the GDP can increase by 32.4%, corresponding to a cool $44.4 trillion, a "profound economic transformation." This is the point at which the firm expects that AI becomes more productive than humans for most knowledge work, and does so with near-autonomy. Equally worryingly, it's expected that there will be "essentially no" new knowledge tasks created. Anthropic notes that to reach this kind of stage, the country would "likely require" recursively self-improving AI (using the AI to make better AI). There's a significant catch, however, as though the U.S. would be "far richer than [it's] ever been," knowledge workers would be the hardest hit with a 10% wage drop, plus overall unemployment would climb "beyond typical recessionary levels." Manual labor would be prized, though, given that "as AI increases productivity within knowledge work, the demand for manual work that benefits from that productivity will increase." Scenarios aside, the one big question is: How would all that GDP money land in people's pockets? Anthropic admits this problem is a "challenge" and offers little solution for it. Such a high amount of future AI penetration might prove a hard sell, considering wealth inequality in the U.S. already sits at its highest level for the last few decades and is trending in that direction in most developed nations. Others might argue with Anthropic's assessment that unemployment levels would remain somewhat in the less extreme scenarios, seeing as job cuts are rampant across many sectors and have hit technology-related fields the hardest. To its credit, Anthropic clearly highlights part of the wealth-inequality issue. The company admits that more AI automation might skew the current 60/40% balance between labor and capital, respectively, strongly tilting the scale in favor of capital ownership and increasing inequality. Many argue that's already happening today. There's also the matter that the prediction appears to assume little competition from other countries, nor does it offer insight as to what would happen to "AI-less" nations. The interactive blog post and its simulator are worth a good read and fiddling with, regardless. Anthropic published the technical details on the mathematical model used in a separate article and published its Economic Policy Framework last June.

Some of the main drivers of high inflation are supply issues caused by the US-Iran war and American tech giants spending huge amounts on AI, which are not problems a rate hike will solve. …

Some of the main drivers of high inflation are supply issues caused by the US-Iran war and American tech giants spending huge amounts on AI, which are not problems a rate hike will solve. Bloodletting is an ancient therapy, dating back at least three millennia, and traditionally used to "cure" a range of ills. Whether through leeches or lancets, blood was drawn from the patient to re…

Economists are gearing up for a potential rate hike from the central bank as soon as October, driven by escalating crude oil prices and ongoing food inflation concerns. The CEO of Axis Bank has …

Economists are gearing up for a potential rate hike from the central bank as soon as October, driven by escalating crude oil prices and ongoing food inflation concerns. The CEO of Axis Bank has raised alarms about the increasing risks of inflation. This shift… Some economists have brought forward their forecasts for a rate hike by the central bank to as early as October, overturning earlier expectations that the rates would be held steady for the rest of t…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has frozen out the news outlet that reported his own contradictory mortgage pledges, a campaign media figures warn could endanger the economy. The account comes from a Sunday report by …

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has frozen out the news outlet that reported his own contradictory mortgage pledges, a campaign media figures warn could endanger the economy. The account comes from a Sunday report by Semafor media editor Max Tani, based on interviews with reporters, editors and Treasury officials. Tani reported that Bessent threatened Bloomberg News with retaliation last September, then spent a year carrying the threat out. Several media figures Tani contacted warned that a hostile relationship between the Treasury secretary and the press corps could pose a "real risk" if the United States hits an economic crisis, Semafor reported. The warning comes as high interest rates remain front-page news, according to the report, and as so-called bond vigilantes — investors who dump government debt to force a change in policy — test the Treasury's credibility. Those shut out are the outlets bond traders read. The fight began with a telephone call last September, according to Semafor. Bessent was "furious" that Bloomberg reporters Anthony Cormier and Zachary Mider planned to report that he had once agreed to occupy two different houses as his "principal residence" at the same time, two people familiar with the exchange told Semafor. He phoned Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait directly. If Bloomberg published, Bessent told Micklethwait, the outlet could expect different treatment from the Treasury Department, including no more appearances by the secretary, Semafor reported. His team also asked for more time to supply documents. The story was headed for print just as President Donald Trump used the same rationale to force out Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, according to Semafor. Trump fired Cook last year after Federal Housing Finance Agency director William Pulte accused her of listing two properties as her primary residence, Bloomberg reported. Her mortgage pledges alone justified removing her from the Fed board, Trump wrote in her termination letter, calling them "potentially criminal conduct." Such charges are almost never brought. Federal prosecutors have charged someone criminally for misstating a primary residence on a mortgage application only 20 times in eight years, a Reuters review of more than 600 cases found, and just one was a standalone charge. On Sept. 20, 2007, Bessent agreed that a seven-bedroom manor he was buying in Bedford Hills, New York, would be his principal residence for the coming year. On the same day, he made the identical pledge about a beachfront house in Provincetown, Massachusetts. There was no sign of wrongdoing on his part, Bloomberg reported. Both mortgages came from Bank of America as part of one $21 million financing, so the bank could not have been misled. His lawyer, Charles Rich, signed the papers under power of attorney. "Bank of America was fully aware that the Provincetown … property was not a principal residence and waived any requirement that it be used as a principal residence," Rich wrote to Bloomberg. The problem for the administration was double standards, Bloomberg concluded, created by the president's decision to use the technical question of primary residence to remove someone he wanted gone. Bloomberg published the article on Sept. 17, 2025. Bessent has not appeared on Bloomberg Television since, Semafor reported, and some of the outlet's reporters privately complain they no longer receive certain press releases carrying key financial information. Reporters from Bloomberg, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal were later denied credentials to cover the Group of 20 finance meeting Bessent hosted in Asheville, North Carolina, from Aug. 29 to Sept. 1. Treasury approved nearly 300 journalists but gave no explanation, the Associated Press reported. "Blatant attempt to evade public scrutiny" was how the Times described the decision, the AP reported, noting the agenda included bond markets and inflation. "It has nothing to do with point of view," Bessent told the AP. Bessent has attacked reporters by name in public as well, Semafor reported. He called a Financial Times story on Federal Reserve oversight "tabloid trash for market participants," dismissed its reporters as "pathetic" and "mendacious," and labeled the Journal's chief economic correspondent, Nick Timiraos, one of the "stenographers posing as journalists." He has made time elsewhere, sitting for interviews in recent days with Right Side Broadcasting, Fox News and Steve Bannon's "War Room," appearing on the latter from the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on Friday, Semafor reported. "If some of the Bloomberg Terminal bros are unhappy with me," Bessent said there, "that's too bad." "What we cannot do is dedicate the Secretary's valuable time to helping media swamp creatures manufacture a fake narrative," a Treasury spokesperson told Semafor, adding that Bessent has conducted hundreds of media engagements. "The finest Treasury Secretary since Alexander Hamilton," Bannon called him Friday, according to Semafor — the same Bannon who had backed his bid for the job.

Skip to comments. The Fed may be on the verge of a serious mistake, prominent economists warn Marketwatch ^ | Sept. 14, 2026 | Greg Robb Follow Posted on by lasereye Investors on Wall …

Skip to comments. The Fed may be on the verge of a serious mistake, prominent economists warn Marketwatch ^ | Sept. 14, 2026 | Greg Robb Follow Posted on by lasereye Investors on Wall Street and observers of the Federal Reserve in Washington largely expect the central bank to raise interest rates when it meets this week, but some prominent economists are warning that such a move could prove to be a mistake. They see the economy as more vulnerable to a steep slowdown in growth than commonly believed. The Fed’s job is to keep employment steady and inflation under control. If central bank officials raise rates on Wednesday, the goal will be to cool inflation. But these economists worry that a rate hike could cause a sharp cut in economic activity, which could prompt businesses to let go of workers and ultimately lead to a recession. “The odds of a serious Fed policy mistake are uncomfortably high and rising,” warned Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, in a post on X. It’s hard to slow economic growth without layoffs, rising unemployment and igniting a “self-reinforcing negative cycle,” said Zandi, who has advised leading Democrats over the years. In late August, Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh used his remarks at the Jackson Hole economic symposium to signal that he was concerned about inflation trends. He said he wouldn’t hesitate to act if the inflation picture worsened. Ten days ago, investors put the odds of a rate hike at about 50%. But rising diesel prices, renewed tensions in the Middle East and Friday’s hotter-than-expected consumer inflation report have convinced traders and economists that Warsh will follow through on his tough talk and raise rates. Fed officials will meet behind closed doors Tuesday and Wednesday to decide whether to hike interest rates or hold them steady. The Fed’s decision will be announced at 2 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, and Warsh will hold a press conference at 2:30 p.m. (Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ... TOPICS: Business/Economy News/Current Events KEYWORDS: federalreserve inflation interestrates Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. To: lasereye Karl Marx was a “prominent economist”... by 2 posted onby Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.) To: lasereye Marketwatch.... Subscribe to continue reading.... Create a free account, by handing over your data via Google, Facebook or giving up your name and email address. Marketwatch will be watching — you. To: lasereye My sources indicate there is a serious shortage of $$$ available right now. My feeling its due to businesses in trouble. To: lasereye I don’t relish the Fed raising rates, but if they do, the fault lies in a government (both parties included incapable of a delivering a responsible fiscal policy. Inflation is not something that should be ignored, and Fed policy cannot be expected to whitewash the failure of the government’s excessive spending and borrowing. To: lasereye Overheard at the Fed meeting: “How can we screw Trump?” by 6 posted onby ClearCase_guy (Some people want to control their own life, others want to control the lives of others. ) To: Nervous Tick --- "Karl Marx was a “prominent economist”..." Don't forget the French's Thomas Piketty.... Prominent, he'll tell you. To: lasereye Are these one-handed, or two-handed economists? To: lasereye Don’t worry, the right people will be just fine. by 9 posted onby dljordan (Where's the rest of the Epstein files hmmmm?) To: lasereye F the Fed. Shut down the elites financial advisors. by 10 posted onby cp124 (Bring back the Constitution.) To: Nervous Tick This sounds like sniveling little creeps like Robert Reich To: dljordan ✅ The Government Debt Enslavement Cult, Big Un-Beautiful Signed Trump Bill, and his Predessesors, in your face arrogance, march on. The Golden Parachute Class by 12 posted onby Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesied set before you." ) I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days) To: Nervous Tick Never. by 13 posted onby steve8714 (I have great hope for Pope Leo. Oops. Not now.) To: lasereye Economists have correctly forecast 10 of the last 5 recessions. by 14 posted onby Bobbyvotes (Work is best form of worship to God.) To: lasereye How bout they just don’t do anything and let it ride.......... by 15 posted onby Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name) To: lasereye Raising the short-term rate may be the only way to bring down the long-term rates. If bond traders don’t think the Fed is taking inflation seriously, they will dump long-duration Treasuries. To: Nervous Tick So was the obozo’s stash lady. by 17 posted onby Track9 (Liberal tears make me smile. Thank you DJT! ABM = anything but muslim ) To: lasereye This inflationary cycle is not being caused by too much, money chasing too few goods. It is being caused by too little oil and diesel affecting the price of everything. Raising borrowing costs does not solve that problem. To: steve8714 >> Never. Sure he is! He even wrote a book with an economistic-sounding name. “The Capital” or something. He has a lot of worshipers in The Academy. The Academy is quite prominent, you know. by 19 posted onby Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.) To: lasereye You’ll live in a van down by the river and be thankful you have that! 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Here’s my monthly survey of the best interest rates on cash as of September 2026, roughly sorted from shortest to longest maturities. Banks and brokerages love taking advantage of idle cash, and you can …

Here’s my monthly survey of the best interest rates on cash as of September 2026, roughly sorted from shortest to longest maturities. Banks and brokerages love taking advantage of idle cash, and you can often earn more interest while keeping the same level of… Here’s my monthly survey of the best interest rates on cash as of September 2026, roughly sorted from shortest to longest maturities. Banks and brokerages love taking advantage of idle cash, and you …