Investigative Journalism
It is the end of an era – and at the same time a harbinger of a policy that does not protect but destroys. Del Monte Foods, a giant of the American food industry ...
Washington – It was just a number, but it cast a shadow over the Trump administration’s optimistic narrative: for the first time in nearly a year, the number of private-sector jobs in the US has declined ...
Washington, July 1, 2025 – In the midst of a stifling July heat, after a sleepless night of legislative wrangling, the US Senate today passed President Donald Trump’s central legislative project of tax breaks ...
Oxnard, California - Lisa Tate stands at the edge of her strawberry field, her gaze drifting across rows of ripe fruit glistening in the California summer sun - untouched, unharvested, on the verge of decay.
Washington, D.C. – In the history of American presidencies, there have been many unusual messages - on letterhead, in tweets, as margin notes on legislative drafts. But what Donald Trump just sent to the Chairman of the U.S. Federal ...
It is Saturday evening in Washington, and the Senate is still lit. No ceremonial act, no state visit - but a political ballet of nerves where every vote counts. While President Donald Trump ...
It is a silent tremor that creeps into the balance sheets of American households – slowly, insidiously, but inexorably. The United States is experiencing an explosive increase in the amounts citizens are paying in tariffs ...
It is a clear warning signal amid economic policy turbulence: the US economy shrank by 0.5% in the first quarter of 2025 – and thus more sharply than previously assumed. ...
New York - The intervention of the United States in the war between Israel and Iran - through targeted airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities - left surprisingly subdued traces on global financial markets on Monday...
It was supposed to be a patriotic coup – a symbol of technological independence, economic revival, and nationalist identity: the “All-American Smartphone” announced by Donald Trump, presented with stars-and-stripes pageantry, MAGA flair, ...
It starts with a law that sounds harmless – and ends in a perversion of political responsibility. The U.S. Senate is expected to pass a crypto bill this week that supposedly aims to bring order to the market. In reality, it opens the floodgates to corruption. The law, known as the “GENIUS Act,” ...
New York, June 16, 2025 - Donald Trump is entering the mobile phone market. With a blend of pathos, patriotism, and product promise, the Trump Organization has introduced a new mobile phone brand: T1 Mobile ...
What Donald Trump calls “excellent” on Truth Social is difficult to translate into economic terms with the same tone. The new deal with China, which the president claims is concluded – pending final approval by Xi Jinping ...
36 million workers were to be better protected from heat by a new regulation from OSHA – the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Shade, drinking water, breaks: not ...
It started with a sentence. One of those sentences that are more than just an opinion - a harbinger. "I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it." What was meant was the termination of multi-billion-dollar government contracts ...
It does not begin with a scandal, but with a system. Not with an outrage, but with a decision: Research – yes, but only if it fits the worldview. Migration – ...
It was a morning of open reckoning when President Donald Trump sharply attacked Republican Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky on his Truth Social platform. The reason was Paul's criticism of Trump's key domestic initiative, the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (BBB), ...
It is a political monument, a monument to overconfidence, baptized with the name of a marketing promise: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Donald Trump announced it as a masterpiece of fiscal policy – but within his own ranks ...
It was a brief moment of relief, hardly more than a breath in the history of economic rivalry: Just a few weeks ago, the United States and China announced in Geneva ...
It is a promise that could hardly be greater – and at the same time more dangerous: President Donald Trump wants to solve America’s debt problem. With multibillion-dollar tax cuts, growth-driven optimism, and an aggressive tariff policy. But ...
By a man who set out to make America great again – and burned billions along the way. It was one of those scenes that have become routine in Trump’s second term: a warehouse ...
Despite public announcements and media staging of “deals” under President Trump, as of May 28, 2025, no new, fully negotiated, and legally binding trade agreements have entered into force.
– Trump reacts angrily to his new Wall Street nickname: “Don’t ever say that again.” - It began with a sentence, spoken calmly, analytically, yet politically explosive. A reporter asked the President of the United States what he thought about Wall
Washington, May 29, 2025 – A federal court in New York delivered a serious legal setback to President Donald Trump on Wednesday: His attempt to impose sweeping tariffs on global imports by invoking the 1977 emergency powers law ...
It was a sentence as if from another world: “A bill can be big or it can be beautiful - but both at once?” Elon Musk looked into the CBS studio camera, his gaze tired yet unwavering...
It begins like an American tragedy, written not in blood, but in omitted budget lines and frozen grant programs. Across the wide fields of Pennsylvania, where hope once bloomed, ...
It begins with a lawsuit so absurd, it almost reads like satire. But it’s real. BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world, is suing UnitedHealth — not because the company ...
The Return of Economic Nationalism. In a time when markets are reeling and the global order is wavering, Donald Trump once again resorts to his proven tool of provocation: ...
Sterling, Virginia – It was an evening that defied comprehension. A political ritual that did not present itself as such – and yet contained all the symptoms of power obsession and economic self-empowerment. At Trump National ...
It wasn’t a quiet farewell, but it was a clear retreat – Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, is stepping back from the political stage after...
Germany on the Brink of Stagnation. It is a quiet rumble echoing through European markets – no catastrophe, no panic, but a palpable chill. It is the cold breath of protectionist ...
It is a spectacle of absurdity, a duel between demons, and yet it is about nothing less than the fate of millions of Americans. In the House of Representatives, the battle rages over Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” a grotesque monument ...
How Trump Turns Walmart into a Hostage of His Illusions and Loses His Last Grip on Reality. It is a lesson in economic ignorance and a spectacle of denial...
Moody’s downgraded the United States' credit rating on Friday, lowering it from the highest rating of AAA to Aa1. The rating agency cited rising national debt and increasing interest payments on that debt as the primary reasons for the downgrade.
... or: What the Fall of Stocks Reveals About Ourselves. There are days like this when the state of the world is not reflected in speeches but in stock charts. Not in programs but in percentage points...
In the hour of political darkness, when economic reason yields to propaganda, history returns as farce. President Donald Trump, a man whose understanding of history is shaped less by archives than by ...