US Economy

In the first poll after his inauguration, from YouGov, U.S.

With the election of Zohran Mamdani to the office of Mayor of New York, an event thought practically impossible just a few decades ago has come to pass: the most populous city in the United States and the centre of the financial world has an avowed socialist as its mayor.

In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, examines the political storm hitting the healthcare sector — how comments and policy risks from Trump and RFK Jr.

Goldman with the note.

Data released in the U.S.

Are the US and China getting back together?

In the world of traditional metrics of economic activity, there are few indicators that are more important than the volume of freight moving through a nation.

Recently on Twitter (also known as X), I came across a series of charts purporting to show the trend in certain search terms on Google indicative of financial stress.

For a long time, Middle America has found itself struggling at an aggregate level.

In the wake of the recent assassination of American conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at an event at Utah Valley University, there has been a renewed drive for greater levels of gun control in the United States.

The latest benchmark revision from the U.S.

Friday’s NFP is a massive release for markets. BofA offers its preview. August payrolls:re-acceleration? We expect Aug payrolls to rise by 90k (consensus:75k, Jul: 73k). Although initial claims increased during the survey week, the four-week average remained at modest levels and not far from the July average (Exhibit 2).

Recently here at MacroBusiness, I explored how during the industrial revolution the investors in the stocks of American railroad companies did not see the huge returns that one might have expected, despite railroads dramatically transforming and boosting the U.S.

Deutsche with the note.

In the history of the industrialised world, there have been many technological innovations that have transformed the way we collectively live our lives.

In the world of United States economics, it has been said that “the construction cycle is the economic cycle”.

On the 16th of June 2015, Donald Trump declared that he was going to run for the presidency of the United States.

US President Donald Trump has flagged an increase in his ‘liberation day’ baseline tariff to between 15% and 20%.

In recent months, media coverage surrounding the impact of AI on the labour force has increasingly featured anecdotes of companies across multiple industries scaling back hiring for entry-level positions, as they attempt to utilise AI to fill these roles.

Japan has been a key security ally of the United States for seven decades and a vital partner in US efforts to counter an increasingly assertive China.

Yesterday, I started paying for ChatGPT.

With the release of the latest U.S.

Goldman with the note.