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Jerome Powell’s decision to publicly attack the Trump administration could give President Trump the opportunity to appoint a leader of the Federal Reserve without Senate approval.

This is the Breitbart Business Digest Weekly Wrap, where bring you seven days of data and insight about the economy in a single newsletter.

A century-long lease offers the simplest way to secure enduring Arctic access without the political liabilities of ownership.

What’s the best structure for securing American interests on the world’s largest island?

What we’re witnessing in Venezuela is less about one country’s oil production and more about the completion of a shift toward Western Hemisphere energy independence and an embrace of the core reality of fossil fuel-driven global energy production.

This week’s wrap is all about the long-awaited consumer price index report released Thursday, the one the legacy media immediately tried to bury because it wrecked their story about America caught in an affordability crisis.

President Trump tipped his hand a bit on Wednesday night, hinting that the inflation report issued Thursday morning by the Department of Labor was going to be good news.

Tuesday’s chaotic employment report had something for everyone from hawks to doves, bulls to bears.

Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran delivered a speech Monday taking apart the tariff-inflation panic.

This is the Breitbart Business Digest weekly wrap, in which we coincidentally run through the economic and financial news of the previous seven days.

The Federal Reserve’s latest Summary of Economic Projections reveals that the inflation hawks have stood down, and Fed Governor Christopher Waller was right all along.

A Trumpier Fed Isn’t An Inflation Threat The financial press has been trying its best for months to gin up a panic over the independence of the Federal Reserve. We’ve had a number of dress rehearsals for the supposed death

The conservative movement in America is now decisively in favor of tariffs.

Until very recently, there was lots of talk on Wall Street and among Federal Reserve officials of the danger of inflation expectations becoming “unanchored” due to tariff-induced price increases.

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The Fed Will Cut Next Week The Federal Reserve is all but certain to cut interest rates by 25 basis points next week, bringing the federal funds rate down to a range of 3.5 to 3.75 percent. Markets are pricing

Gloom to Boom: A Holiday Shopping Odyssey American consumers sure have a funny way of expressing their gloomy mood. For months, U.S. consumers have been telling pollsters that the economy is precarious, that they can’t afford anything, and that buying

The man Trump calls a “stubborn ox” might prove stubborn enough to stick around when his term as Fed chairman expires, operating as a kind of monetary policy resistance leader for the next two years.

President Trump has floated the idea of sending $2,000 checks to most Americans, funded by tariff revenue.

The Plymouth Colony’s survival depended on two linked transformations that echo loudly in today’s economic debates: abandoning collectivism for private property and severing dependence on imports in favor of domestic production.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick went to Brussels this week with a refreshingly direct message.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Breitbart Business Digest in an exclusive interview that the Trump administration is determined to end America’s dangerous dependence on China for critical materials and pharmaceuticals, describing the effort as “taking back our sovereignty.”

This week, the government finally revealed the September jobs data, and we learned about the mysterious resignation of yet another Fed official.

Tariffs paired with immigration policy, capital policy, and monetary policy are tools for breaking a low-wage equilibrium and pushing the economy toward more capital, more productivity, higher real wages, and a cooler price path.

The new San Francisco Fed paper on tariffs opens the door for using customs duties in a way that the economics profession has almost never considered: as a macroeconomic policy tool.

The Federal Reserve spent 2025 worried about the wrong problem, mistakenly holding back on rate cuts out of fear that Trump’s tariffs are an inflation threat.

A new paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco suggests that the economic establishment’s narrative that tariffs drive up inflation is wrong.

The Federal Reserve released research proving its own rate-holding decision was based on a theoretical mistake.

The Trump administration is floating an idea that sounds intuitive to a lot of people: portable mortgages.

Federal Reserve hawks may be on the verge of making a reckless bet based on incomplete information.

The 50-year mortgage risks converting a generation of would-be homeowners into highly leveraged tenants of their own dreams—a generation of owners in name but renters in substance.

American companies are freely purchasing Chinese AI services while Chinese companies have zero ability to purchase American AI services. That’s exactly the sort of one-way trade barrier that President Trump has promised to end.

The white collar workers in Brooklyn who elected Zohran Mamdani are experiencing the economic displacement felt by blue collar workers in the Rust Belt three decades ago. They are the natural next chapter of the Make America Great Again coalition.

Zohran Mamdani won big because he tapped into something that cuts across traditional class boundaries: a pervasive sense that the fundamental bargain of American economic life has broken down.

Yesterday we explored how the battle over rate cuts has scrambled old alliances inside the Federal Reserve. Today we look closer at what’s driving that split and what it means for markets.

Donald Trump gained an unexpected ally Monday in his fight with the Federal Reserve: Governor Lisa Cook, the Fed official he attempted to fire this summer.