2+ hour, 25+ min ago  (117+ words) Robert Ginsburg is a professor, attorney, and a country risk expert who reports on international business and political economy. He's written extensively about the nexus of politics, law, and technology. Robert's written work appears in the company of writings by…...

8+ hour, 30+ min ago  (282+ words) Recent reactions to US policymaking and tariffs have contributed to a decline in the dollar's value, leading some to reexamine its role as the world's safe-haven currency. The debate coincides with another shift, which is the growing emergence of cross-border…...

13+ hour, 29+ min ago  (1041+ words) Send a note to Kiah Treece, Angelica Leicht and our other editors. We read every email. Today's average mortgage rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is 6.01%, down 0.00 percentage points from the previous week, according to the Mortgage Research Center. Borrowers…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (249+ words) As of today, the highest money market rate is 4.22%, compared to a national average rate of 0.48%, according to'Curinos. How Does a Money Market Account Work?' A'money market account, or MMA, is an interest-bearing deposit account you can open at a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (156+ words) Forbes contributor Micah Logan has seen a recurring theme among business owners whose ventures struggle to thrive: they tend to make stupid mistakes. Now, that's not a dig at the intelligence of business owners. S.T.U.P.I.D. is an acronym for the six…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (367+ words) Three factors distinguish whether political influence over a central bank triggers gradual erosion or acute crisis: the transmission mechanism, the credibility anchor, and the political-financial nexus. JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs treasury desks read this transformation as signaling, not conviction. A…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (339+ words) New population estimates for the United States confirm the educated guesses that economists had been making: population growth was slower last year. That likely portends future weakness in population growth, implying slower total gains for the U.S. economy. The Census Bureau…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (339+ words) New population estimates for the United States confirm the educated guesses that economists had been making: population growth was slower last year. That likely portends future weakness in population growth, implying slower total gains for the U.S. economy. The Census Bureau…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (1397+ words) I literally just paid a duty bill this week, and it was 65 plus percent," Naik told me over Zoom. For context, that's roughly one and a half times the tariff rate applied to a finished Rolex at peak Swiss tariffs....

4+ week, 57+ min ago  (646+ words) Erik Sherman is an independent journalist who has been writing at Forbes for 11 years. He reports on business, economics, finance, investing, markets, tech, law, commercial real estate, and income and wealth inequality. His credits include Fortune, the Wall Street Journal,…...