
Trump Offers a Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors in His Memecoin
The offer, which caused President Trump’s memecoin to surge in price, was his family’s latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies.
The offer, which caused President Trump’s memecoin to surge in price, was his family’s latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies.
President Trump has said his punishing tariffs would force companies to build factories in the United States. But it is far from clear that they will have the effects he predicted.
The president’s threats of tariffs have brought countries like Japan, South Korea and India rushing to negotiate, but they have sown chaos with bigger trading partners like China.
He was a top deal maker in the world of mergers and acquisitions, during the 1980s takeover boom and beyond. He also had a keen interest in art.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argued in a speech that the multilateral economic institutions have veered away from their missions.
In the landmark antitrust case, tech executives have harked back to a Silicon Valley age when social apps like Facebook, Path, Orkut and Google Plus boomed.
Global markets are rebounding as the president softened his protectionist rhetoric and his criticism of the central bank. But investors want to see results on trade.
The deal, with the private equity firm Thoma Bravo, will help the struggling aerospace manufacturer pay down debt and streamline its operations.
The International Monetary Fund expects slower growth and higher inflation in the U.S. as a result of President Trump’s trade policies.
A flight from U.S. assets, including the dollar, could worsen if the president continues his attacks on the Federal Reserve, analysts warn.
The company, which has branched out from Greek-style yogurt, will invest more than $1 billion in the plant in the town of Rome.
Retail executives huddled with the president amid fears that tariffs could result in higher prices.
As pontiff, Francis sought to build bridges with global corporate leaders, who sought audiences with him — but also to remind them about the need to look out for the poor.
President Trump’s trade war is forcing companies to cut costs, raise prices, shrink profits, discontinue products and find other suppliers.
Leaders of the union representing government workers say their battle is galvanizing but also alarming. “It’s insulting to say,” one said, “that we are lazy.”
Once sidelined, President Trump’s counselor Peter Navarro has returned to Washington and quickly upended the global trading system.
“You have to laugh to keep from crying,” one Republican pollster said about recent comments by the billionaires on the stock market, retirement funds and Social Security.
As of August, the president’s investment portfolio showed significantly more in bonds than in stocks. It is unclear if his personal holdings had any bearing on his decisions regarding tariffs.
In Washington, President Trump inundated Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy with praise. She said he had accepted an invitation to go to Rome.
The United States accounted for only 3 percent of China’s natural gas imports last year. Those purchases could now dry up entirely in the trade war.