A spirited roundup of the biggest stories about the biggest businesses in the biggest economy in the world.
Big Business This Week: How AI-Driven Attrition is Quietly Reshaping the Workforce
What if the biggest AI-driven employment trend doesn’t show up in the data until it’s already happened?
Big Business This Week: Markets Shrug as Iran War Resumes
If you look at the actual financial charts, Wall Street and global investors are responding with little more than a collective, synchronized shrug.
Big Business This Week: Ask A Nobel Prize Winner: Can AI Save the American Dream?
The U.S. economy is being held up in part by the AI boom, but that boom could still lead to broader prosperity or inequality, says a Nobel Prize winner.
Big Business This Week: Making Sense of Market Volatility In A Turbulent Week
What the heck, Wall Street? Was there a tech sell-off this week? Perhaps?! Who knows?!
Big Business This Week: The World Cup Is a Money Machine. But for Whom?
FIFA’s soccer World Cup promises to deliver $11.1 billion in spending and $30.5 billion economic impact for the U.S., but how much is it really helping?
Big Business This Week: Is the Coming IPO Wave a Financial Trap?
Do the numbers add up?
Big Business This Week: Decoding investor FOMO about the AI & SpaceX IPOs
A historic wave of IPOs is about to hit Wall Street. For the average investor watching from the sidelines, the frenzy can engender fears of missing out.
Big Business This Week: A Quantum leap for tech investment
What is quantum computing? Is it really the next big thing, and how do ordinary investors get in on the action?
Big Business This Week: What Are The Hidden Risks of Giant IPOs?
What happens when Space X, OpenAI, and Anthropic all hit the market in the next few months?
Big Business This Week: ‘They’re Getting Their Money Back’ — A Trade Lawyer on the Tariff Collapse
We spoke with a lawyer who sued the federal government on behalf of 100 companies over the emergency tariffs.
Big Business This Week: SpaceX’s $2 trillion IPO: Should we be bullish or bearish?
We spoke with bulls and bears.
Big Business This Week: Why the UAE’s OPEC departure is a distraction from the real oil price crisis
How many oil crises can the world track at once? Now, the UAE has said it will leave the energy cartel, but what does it mean?
Big Business This Week: Can Warsh prove his independence?
Sometimes it helps to have friends in high places, and sometimes it doesn’t. Just ask Kevin Warsh, nominee to be the next chair of the Fed.
Big Business This Week: Just How Big A Threat Is AI to Global Finance?
When Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (above) and Fed chair Jay Powell jointly summon America’s top bankers to a meeting in Washington, you know it’s big.
Big Business This Week: The Great Iran War Supply Chain Disruption
The ripple effects of the Iran War go beyond oil tankers and the Strait of Hormuz, affecting global supply chains for everything.
Big Business This Week: “Stocks will crash,” says one expert; “Stocks will rise,” says another
Big Business This Week caught up with a naysayer and a yaysayer about the stock market, to see if we could make head or tail of the situation.
Big Business This Week: Insider trading: “What’s needed is enforcement — not new excuses.”
Somebody got rich quick on Monday morning. But was it insider trading? And what can be done?
