Rick Newman

Trump's tariff threats used to be aimed at economic targets. The portfolio is rapidly expanding.

Trump's pick for Treasury secretary wants to cut federal deficits to the levels of Barack Obama's presidency. Those days are long gone.

Most Americans aren't sure what tariffs are, and they're conflicted about whether they matter or not.

Republicans suddenly think the economy is much better. Democrats think it is worse. Why might that be?

Musk wants to put federal workers out of their jobs and make it harder to reach anybody at a government office. Did voters ask for this?

There's a new pattern in US presidential elections: Voters frustrated with worsening wealth inequality repeatedly punish the incumbent.

Some investors made millions on the "Trump trade." Not me.

The federal bureaucracy is sprawling because Congress wants it that way. Elon Musk won't change that.

Inflation is ticking back up, and markets are betting it will get worse once President-elect Trump takes office.

Expelling millions of migrants could cost hundreds of billions of dollars and leave the economy worse off.

Fifty-seven percent of 2024 voters were non-college grads. They can rightly ask, what did Joe Biden or Kamala Harris do for me?

Democrats' liberal wing has wrecked the party, and the nation suffers for it.

The US economy doesn't need the return to industrial-era policies Trump is planning.

Trump is the ultimate election "whale," with as much as $5.7 billion riding on whether he wins or not.

The October jobs report was the weakest of Biden's presidency, yet he can still boast positive job growth in every single month since he took office.

I bought an options contract on shares of Trump Media & Technology Group. It's basically a bet on who will win the presidential election. Follow along as I either lose it all or make a couple thousand dollars.

Elon Musk hacked Twitter down to size. Surely he can do the same with Uncle Sam.

Borrowers hoping for a break on interest rates have a wild card to contend with: the presidential election.

Traders gambling on a Trump victory in the presidential election may be overestimating the odds he will win.

Voters think about inflation in different ways, and small variations could have an outsized influence on this year's presidential race.