

A spirited roundup of the biggest stories about the biggest businesses in the biggest economy in the world. New episodes Fridays at 10 a.m. ET.

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: Xmas tricks retailers use to “hack our minds”
How do brands keep consumers spending even when they're strapped for cash at Xmas?

Big Business This Week: Inside the battle for Warner Bros.
It’s the intrigue of the hour in Hollywood, and the implications are real for the U.S. entertainment and news industries.

Big Business This Week: Retail’s new trilogy: Gen Z, AI, and Ozempic
We sat down with Ali Furman, U.S. Consumer Markets Industry Leader at consulting firm PwC to ask what trends she garnered from the initial data this year.

Big Business This Week: “Probably about a 45% chance of recession.”
With prices up, trade down, and only 32% of Americans feeling confident about the economy, what comes next?

Big Business This Week: Could Zohranomics actually work?
We spoke with two experts about why the mayor-elect's plans could be tough to execute.

Big Business This Week: Whatever happened to free markets?
America during Donald Trump’s presidency has embraced interventionist economic policy in a way not seen since FDR’s New Deal.

Big Business This Week: Building “deep tech” that matters
Maybe it’s not high-tech that’s the answer to improving the world, maybe it’s actually… “deep tech.”

Big Business This Week: Will more health insurance costs hit business?
At the core of the ongoing government shutdown is a fight over the decision to end subsidies that let some 12 million Americans get health coverage.

Big Business This Week: All about the shutdown economy
We spoke to an economist about the impact of the shutdown on the U.S. economy
