Chris Matthews

It's true! Excited for my next move but sad to leave my wonderful MarketWatch colleagues.

Washington correspondent Matthews departing MarketWatch - Talking Biz News Chris Matthews, a Washington correspondent for MarketWatch.com covering financial regulation and economic policy, is leaving the news organization. He is becoming a senior writer for the Investment Co...

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I suspect if only these policies had been announced, without the drama over global so-called reciprocal tariffs, the market would have reacted differently. Long run in probably doesn't matter but markets have only so much capacity to take in new information.

S&P 500 closes up 5.7% on a week during which the Trump admin and China put lock-out tariffs on each other. Taxes high enough to cripple the most important trading relationship in global economic history.

Can a president break insider-trading laws? Trump’s online post sparks debate. Six Democratic Senators sent a letter Friday to the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission requesting an investigation.

Did a deep dive into whether President Trump can be sanctioned for flouting insider trading laws in the lead up to his reversal on reciprocal tariffs. www.marketwatch.com/story/can-a-...

Despite Musk’s claims, Trump administration spending on pace to surpass Biden’s The U.S. Treasury is on pace to spend 7.4% more in 2025 than last year.

There’s no evidence in the real-time data that DOGE is saving taxpayers money

Baseball season is a big test for whether this app can replace what we lost with the death of Twitter. So far, so good! Just need the Phillies to wake up.

Why markets are missing some of the risks in a Trump government shutdown The “DOGE” blitz on the federal bureaucracy could complicate negotiations.

Why markets are missing risks of a Trump government shutdown www.marketwatch.com/story/why-ma...

Markets are underestimating the potential impact of a protracted and dramatic government shutdown. The unprecedented factor in this shutdown threat is how it could be leveraged by DOGE to cement control over the federal government’s payment systems.

A U.S. security review made AppLovin America’s hot stock — and its founders rich Who says government can’t create wealth? CFIUS, an obscure panel playing an increasing market role, blocked the sale of AppLovin years before a stock-market bonanza.

In 2016, AppLovin founders thought they had struck gold. The mobile advertising firm, founded by Adam Foroughi and his team, had inked a $1.4 billion deal to sell itself to China’s Orient Hontai Capital. A massive payday was on the horizon.

Then Washington intervened.

Google is toast

Inside the fight to stop Elon Musk and DOGE from accessing your personal data Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has moved quickly to set up shop in a critical Treasury Department office that handles the vast majority of payments made by the federal gover...

Musk opponents scored a victory in court Thursday

"I am fascinated by history, and I don't know what it is. I believe that, whatever it is, it is profoundly important, and I don't know why." -- Marilynne Robinson

Is Donald Trump inheriting the best economy in history? President-elect Trump will enter office with the lowest unemployment rate since Richard Nixon in 1969 — but red flags remain.

President-elect Trump will enter office with the lowest unemployment rate since Richard Nixon in 1969.

"It’s built into the fabric of life with Trump that when you say something like this, a chorus of people will say you’re being naïve, or this isn’t normal or whatever else. But that is simply a militant commitment to living within the eddies and currents of this man’s drama."

Bureaucracy Isn't Measured In Bureaucrats ...

Scott Alexander once again doing God's work talking sense into libertarians. Bureaucracy Isn't Measured In Bureaucrats www.astralcodexten.com/p/bureaucrac...

U.S. bitcoin reserve keeps gaining momentum. Will it power crypto’s next rally? Dennis Porter is now seeing the culmination of years of hard work and his single-minded dedication to the idea that bitcoin can serve as a national strategic asset.

www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-bi...

Bitcoin is pulling back after a serious post-Trump rally. The movement to create a strategic bitcoin reserve could be the asset's next catalyst. Trump and his allies in the crypto industry want reverse the correction with the creation of a bitcoin strategic reserve, paid for with public resources.

Mitch McConnell's strategy in 2009-2010 was a disaster for the conservative movement. Obama Passed the ARA, ACA, Dodd-Frank and then got reelected in '12.

Can you share a link?

New CBO analysis says that a universal Trump tariff of 10% and 60% on China would raise $2.7 trillion over 10 years and raise consumer prices by roughly 1%. Not a very progressive tax, but seems like a once-in-a-generation opportunity to get the GOP to pass some tax hikes (and take the blame).

How Elon Musk and Vivek teamed up to gut $2 trillion of government spending DOGE will have to go after Social Security and health programs to hit its targets. Some in Washington don’t believe it stands a chance.

How Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy teamed up to gut $2 trillion of government spending www.marketwatch.com/story/how-el...

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were introduced to each other by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, whose brand of right-wing nationalism was once anomalous, but is now ascendant.

Luigi's Manifesto Exclusive: read Luigi Mangione's 262-word manifesto on the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

I got the Luigi Mangione manifesto. The real one, not the forgery circulating online. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-man...

In case you for whatever reason needed a list of 30 Rock Christmas episodes

Many such cases

Two seat majority for Rs at least to start 119th Congress

Trump could save $1.4 trillion nixing Biden executive orders President-elect Trump and his allies in Congress are hoping to enact massive tax cuts that could cost nearly $8 trillion over ten years and will be on the lookout for potential spending cuts to defray...

I wouldn't be surprised to see Republicans rescind these legislatively in a budget reconciliation deal to help defray the costs of Trump's planned $8 trillion tax cut www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-...

Excellent development. High-intensity drinking makes it sound like I'm a go-getter.

A lot of Democrats want the party to represent the working class, and so cannot accept that members of a labor union are not a favorable demographic. There are many reasons why this reductive thinking, but a lot of people adopt the conviction in good faith.