January 16, 2025

Breitbart Business Digest: Most Americans Say the Stock Market Is Important to Them

Trump Rings the Bell at the NYSE President-elect Donald Trump rang the opening bell Thursday at the New York Stock Exchange—moments after being named TIME Magazine’s Man of the Year. “This is an honor, a tremendous honor,” Trump said. “Usually, they don’t coordinate the man of the year, or person of the year, with the

Breitbart Business Digest: Are Tariffs Really Coming for Your Christmas Presents?

AP Photo/Martin Meissner Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Raise Toy Prices Tariffs will not be the Grinch who steals Christmas from America’s boys and girls. The majority of toys sold in the U.S. are made in China. This has led to alarmist warnings from toy executives and some retailers that steep tariffs imposed on Chinese goods would

Breitbart Business Digest: Inflation Is Still a Big Problem and the Fed Could Make It Worse

The Inflation Trend Is Not Our Friend The Federal Reserve is about to triple down on its September rate cut mistake by reducing its benchmark for a third consecutive time next week. The federal funds futures market currently implies a 95 percent chance of a Fed cut at the December meeting of the Federal Open

Breitbart Business Digest: Younger Americans Are Far More Positive About the Economy After Trump’s Win

Trump and Vance Are Newly Popular Among Younger Voters The youth of America love a winner. Donald Trump and JD Vance saw a surge in their favorability rating among voters aged 18 to 29 following their victory on Election Day, survey data from the Economist and YouGov show. Younger voters also became significantly more optimistic

Breitbart Business Digest: Trump Will Love the Fed Doves

October Inflation Shows the September Cut Was a Mistake The October inflation report can be added to the growing body of evidence that the Federal Reserve cut rates prematurely in September. At first glance, the report seems rather mild. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.2 percent, the Department of Labor said Wednesday. That matches

Breitbart Business Digest: Nobel Laureates Back Kamala, But Voters Trust Trump to Fix the Economy

Trump’s Economic Revolution vs. Harris’s Elitist Rearguard William F. Buckley famously said he’d rather trust the government of the United States to the first 4srcsrc names in the Boston phone book than the faculty of Harvard University. That sentiment was brought to mind by the arrival, just two weeks ahead of the presidential election, of

Breitbart Business Digest: What We Saw at Trump’s Trade Revolution in Chicago

Trump’s Tariffs: A Bold Strategy That Undercuts the Critics As we discussed in Thursday’s Breitbart Business Digest, Donald Trump took the stage this week at the Economic Club of Chicago and made a clear, unapologetic case for tariffs. While the media has focused on Trump’s colorful claims about his love for tariffs—“To me the most

Breitbart Business Digest: The Jobs Report Was Even Worse Than It Seemed

A No Good, Very Bad, Horrible Jobs Report If you squint at the latest jobs report, you might find something to cheer about. But if you look at it with clear eyes, what you really see is an economy downshifting and bracing for impact. The Bureau of Labor Statistics told us Friday that employers added

Breitbart Business Digest: U.S. Native-Born Workers Work More Intensively Than Immigrants

The Assimilation of Immigrant Workers into U.S. Workers The image of the hardworking immigrant is one of the most enduring narratives of the American experience. Unfortunately, new research suggests this is more of a myth than reality. And the reality means that the damage to workers at the lower-end of our economy is likely to

Breitbart Business Digest: Kamala Harris’s Inflationary Legacy

Inflation’s Architect: Kamala Harris and the 21% Grocery Price Hike Inflation is the gift that keeps on giving—if you’re in the business of writing headlines, that is. For everyone else, especially those navigating the grocery aisles, it’s an unwelcome houseguest that refuses to leave. And who, you might ask, sent out the invite? Enter Kamala

Italy’s Meloni Signs Three-Year ‘Action Plan’ with Communist China to Bolster Business Ties

BEIJING (AP) – Italy and China signed a three-year action plan on Sunday to implement past agreements and experiment with new forms of cooperation, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on an official visit to the Chinese capital. Meloni is trying to reset relations with China as fears of a trade war with the European

Breitbart Business Digest: Debate Showed Biden Still Trapped in His Old Economic Lies

Biden Lives in a World of Economic Lies President Biden demonstrated again last night that he is completely untethered from the truth about the American economy and unprepared to discuss the nation’s economic challenges. All the public opinion surveys show that inflation is the top issue for voters, so it was natural that the CNN

Breitbart Business Digest: Juneteenth Gloom Is in the Air, Especially for Democrats

It’s Juneteenth. You MUST Celebrate. Happy Juneteenth to those who celebrate, which is everyone on Wall Street, apparently. Markets were closed today, but we wanted to give you a Breitbart Business Digest anyway. Juneteenth, which is also known as “Emancipation Day,” commemorates the day in 1865 when Union soldiers informed black Americans in Galveston, Texas

Cannabis cops uproot illegal weed shop in heart of Queens business district

The city’s cannabis cops have raided and shuttered an illegal pot shop in the heart of a Queens neighborhood’s business district as part of Mayor Eric Adams’ newly announced crackdown on scofflaws. The Big Apple Sheriff’s Office and NYPD closed the unlicensed “Western Green” smoke shop at 81-27 Lefferts Blvd. in Kew Gardens on Thursday. […]

Judge blocks rule capping credit card late fees at $8 in win for business groups

A federal judge in Texas on Friday blocked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new rule for an $8 cap on credit card late fees, a victory for business and banking groups that said the regulator exceeded its authority. US District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth issued a preliminary injunction against the rule, which was scheduled to take effect on May 14. […]

Breitbart Business Digest: Nvidia and the AI Gold Rush

A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet, But Nvidia Smells Like Money The joke going around the desks of financial advisers this week has a young girl asking her father about her name. “Dad,” says the daughter. “Why is my middle name Rose?” “It’s because your mother loves roses more than almost

Breitbart Business Digest: All Eyes Turn to This Week’s Inflation Report

The Jobs Report Was Inconclusive, So the Nation’s Eyes Turn to CPI Last week’s inconclusive jobs data means that this week’s inflation data has the potential to be very consequential. The Department of Labor reported that the economy added a much higher-than-expected 275,000 jobs in February, according to the establishment survey, but there were large

Breitbart Business Digest: Inflation Is Back and Rising Again

We’re No Longer Headed Toward the ‘Last Mile’ on Inflation Inflation accelerated for the fourth straight month in February, confirming the upward momentum in prices and further undermining the case for rates cuts from the Federal Reserve this year. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.4 percent from January, a tick above the 0.3 percent

Breitbart Business Digest: Immigration Will Not Lower Inflation

Border Chaos Has Added Millions of Foreigners to Labor Force Immigration is not going to bail America out of our inflation mess. The United States is experiencing an enormous surge of migrants. The Department of Labor says that the labor force has increased by 4.6 million foreign born workers during the Biden administration, including an

Breitbart Business Digest: Powell Speaks and States the Obvious—No Rate Cuts Are Coming

Powell’s Progress Jerome Powell spoke today from our nation’s capital and indicated what we all know to be true: The Fed has no business cutting rates at this time. “The recent data have clearly not given us greater confidence and instead indicate that it is likely to take longer than expected to achieve that confidence,”

Breitbart Business Digest: A Tax Day Reminder That Elections Matter

Tax Day Cometh… We made it, fam! It’s another Tax Day. For some, April 15 is a day that can fill an American citizen with pride. It shouldn’t. Your money is almost certainly getting squandered by the federal government in ways both well known and mysterious. (If you need examples, see Breitbart.com literally any day

Comic predicts woke Seattle club that canceled him will not ‘stay in business that long’

A Seattle comedy club canceled four comics because they didn’t align with its neighborhood’s “progressive values” — leading one of the funnymen to predict the club would go out of business. The Capitol Hill Comedy Bar, which celebrates the “vibrant voices of the queer community” with a weekly “Queers to the front” open mic. had […]

‘Blood Money’: The Biden Family Bagged $5M from Business Partner of ‘White Wolf’ Chinese Criminal Gang Leader Who Helped Create the Fentanyl Pipeline Decimating America

Fatih Aktas, Spencer Platt, Jim Watson/Getty Images; CEFC; BNN The Biden family bagged $5 million from the business partner of the “White Wolf,” a Chinese criminal gang leader who helped create the fentanyl pipeline now decimating the United States, Peter Schweizer detailed in his new book, Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While

Breitbart Business Digest: Jerome Powell Plays Rate Cut Santa Claus

This Is What It Sounds Like When Doves Laugh “It would be premature to conclude with confidence that we have achieved a sufficiently restrictive stance, or to speculate on when policy might ease.” Fed Chairman Jerome Powell spoke those words on December 1 at a fireside chat at Spelman College. The markets rejected that idea

Breitbart Business Digest: Is Improved Consumer Sentiment All About Democrats Hating Trump?

The Shaky Edifice of Improved Consumer Confidence Americans are feeling better about the economy than they have in years. Or at least Democrats are. Consumer confidence—as measured by the Conference Board’s monthly survey—surged to a two-year high in January, the third straight monthly increase. The assessment of current economic conditions soared to the best reading

‘They Don’t Even Return My Calls’: San Francisco Business Owner Blames City Leaders for Letting Criminals Ruin Area

A longtime San Francisco business owner is facing “financial ruin” after “widespread drug use, violence and filthy streets” destroyed his neighborhood, making it impossible to keep his companies afloat. Mark Sackett, owner of multiple businesses, including a “South of Market building with a printmaker, antiques shop and events venue called the Box SF for almost

Censorship Industry: ‘Business Booming’ for Ex-Facebook ‘Disinformation’ Experts amid Wars

AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File A new report in CNBC confirms what many observers, including the House Judiciary Committee, have noticed: online censorship has become a global industry, worth billions of dollars. And with two major wars underway, one in Ukraine and one in the Gaza Strip, that industry is reportedly set to expand. According to

Breitbart Business Digest: Wall Street Expects More Cuts Than the Fed Does

Wall Street Is a Haven for Doves Wall Street has not let go of its conviction that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next year. When Federal Reserve officials met last month, their Summary of Economic Projections showed a median expectation for the target rate to be 5.6 percent at the end of this

Breitbart Business Digest: What the Jobs Report Means for 2024

A Choose Your Own Adventure Jobs Report The conventional wisdom about Friday’s disappointing jobs data was that there was a little something for everyone. And, for once, the conventional wisdom is right. The headline jobs number fell below Wall Street’s expectations, suggesting a softening of the labor market. The average workweek slipped as well, which

Breitbart Business Digest: Declining Job Openings May Help Bring Down Inflation

A Soothing JOLTS The doves got everything they could have wished for out of the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) on Tuesday. Job openings fell to 8.827 million in the August report, which estimates vacancies as of the last business day of July. This is the first time openings have fallen below 9

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