Economy

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Tuesday found a sense of gloom settling over the vast electronics market of Shenzhen, China, as President Donald Trump’s tariffs pushed up prices and all but halted orders for computer products.

No one likes tax time, but one fresh character might offer at least some entertainment.

4chan, the website that serves as a source of much of the internet’s meme culture, has been largely inaccessible since Monday night due to a significant hack, with the extent of the data breach uncertain.

Google is facing a class action lawsuit in the UK for £5 billion ($6.6 billion) in potential damages over allegations that the tech giant abused its stranglehold on the search market to drive up advertising prices.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Wednesday that the state is suing President Donald Trump over his recent tariffs, claiming that they are hurting the state and that he lacks the authority to enact them.

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is reportedly cross-checking federal data to prevent illegal aliens from receiving housing and employment benefits, according to a recent report.

It is essential to decouple from China on rare earths. The hard work should have started more than a decade ago. It must start today.

Comedian and podcast megastar Andrew Schulz repeatedly defended and explained the rationale around President Donald Trump placing tariffs on countries around the world, and the ongoing trade war with Communist China, saying Trump brought several countries to the negotiating table while isolating the Communist regime. 

Indian Trade Secretary Sunil Barthwal said on Tuesday that his government has “decided to go for a path of trade liberalization with the United States.”

A Harvard-Harris poll shows that President Trump’s top policy proposals remain wildly popular with the public.

As the Trump  administration prioritizes winning the trade war against China, conservative leaders are asking Attorney General Pam Bondi and Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division Gail Slater to remove antitrust challenges that they argue hamstring the United States’ ability to compete with Huawei and the Chinese Communist Party in the global telecom market.

The mainstream media — namely ABC, CBS, and NBC — devoted 62 times more coverage to  the Trump tariffs and market reaction than to the sterling job numbers, according to a NewsBusters analysis.

Pedestrians in San Francisco’s South Bay area reportedly heard AI-generated messages in the voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg coming from hacked crosswalks after pressing buttons on the devices.

President Donald Trump remarked on the “lovely meeting” between genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and Vietnam’s Communist Party chief To Lam on Monday, claiming they were trying to find an answer to the question, “How do we screw the United States of America?”

China has restricted the export of several crucial rare earth minerals to the United States in response to President Donald Trump’s tariff increases.

Hertz, the car rental giant that also owns the Dollar and Thrifty brands, is notifying customers of a data breach that compromised their personal information and driver’s licenses.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in federal court on Monday to defend his company against the FTC’s allegations that it acquired Instagram and WhatsApp to create a social media monopoly. 

AMD has announced that its key processor chips will soon be produced at TSMC’s new facility in Arizona, marking the first time AMD’s products will be manufactured in the United States. The news comes on the heels of AI giant Nvidia announcing it will produce AI chips and supercomputers in Arizona and Texas.

The U.S. is “fundamentally” an Anglo country and President Trump “really loves” the UK, VP Vance said as he talked up a trade deal to come.

Developer Rick Caruso, who is leading a nonprofit initiative to rebuild areas affected by recent wildfires in Los Angeles, said Monday that the Measure ULA tax on property transactions has resulted in reduced revenue for the city.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer stated there has to be a study on tariffs on products that have semiconductors. Host Laura Ingraham asked, [relevant exchange begins around 3:45] “Well,

Pro-immigration lawyers are trying to block President Donald Trump’s policy of canceling education visas held by more than 1,000 migrants, including many who sign tuition checks to get work permits for the jobs needed by American graduates.

China has stopped exporting several rare earth minerals that are crucial to making certain products in the tech, automobile, aerospace, and defense industries, according to several reports.

Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Saturday quoted reports from Chinese exporters and port officials who said traffic is visibly slowing down at China’s big port cities of Shanghai and Guangdong, while some factory production has virtually “ground to a halt.”

Call it protectionism if you like. But the proper name is older and more precise. It’s called the optimum tariff. And at long last, it’s being put to work for America.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen blasted President Donald Trump, saying the return of American manufacturing is a “pipe dream.”

Twitter co-founder and free speech failure Jack Dorsey took to X on Friday declaring, “Delete all IP law,” to which Elon Musk replied, “I agree.” Tech lords are eager to relax copyright and intellectual property laws in favor of AI system vacuuming up the work of humans.

The FTC’s high-stakes antitrust lawsuit against Meta kicked off today with opening arguments in Washington, DC. Mark Zuckerberg is expected to take the stand to defend his company against the federal government’s claims that the acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp should never have been approved.

The Mississippi state auditor is reportedly going to release on Monday information his office found about a mountain of financial waste.

Accusations of sabotage swirl over fate of UK’s final virgin steel plant, yet Beijing warns against creating “political and security issues”.

Nvidia has announced plans to build AI supercomputers in Texas and invest up to $500 billion in AI production within the United States.