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Nike is scheduled to report its fiscal third quarter results after the close of trading on Tuesday, and the earnings print carries an unusual weight in the current environment — not because of anything Nike-specific, but because of what it might reveal about American consumers navigating a world of $100-plus oil prices. Analysts expect earnings…
The annual Conservative Political Action Conference wrapped up in Dallas on Saturday with a notable absence at its centre: President Trump skipped the event entirely, breaking a decade-long tradition of closing the conference with a signature rally. His absence comes exactly one month after the United States launched strikes against Iran — a military operation…
Even in a week dominated by geopolitical anxiety and falling equities, one story managed to generate genuine excitement on Wall Street: the imminent prospect of a SpaceX IPO. Reports emerged that Elon Musk’s aerospace company could file its S-1 prospectus with the SEC as early as this week, kicking off what would be the largest…
A key document explains your rights and responsibilities as a federal student loan borrower in the US. When you take out a federal student loan, you are entering into a legally binding agreement with the U.S. Department of Education. Most borrowers sign the paperwork, accept the funds, and move on without fully understanding what they…
In the world of federal information security, few resources are as essential yet as poorly understood by the general public as the ISOO CUI Registry. For government agencies, contractors, and anyone who handles sensitive but unclassified federal information, understanding what the ISOO CUI Registry is and what purpose it serves is not optional. It is…
The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down since February 14, and the practical consequences are no longer limited to the policy debate in Washington. At airports across the country, TSA officers are quitting or calling out rather than work without pay, and the lines at security checkpoints are growing longer by the day….
The arithmetic of this past week on financial markets is striking enough to sit alongside the most turbulent periods of the post-financial-crisis era, even before the symbolic element of gold recording its worst weekly performance since February 1983 is factored in. Gold fell below $4,500 on Friday for the first time in weeks, down more…
President Donald Trump has spent the better part of fourteen months trying to push Jerome Powell out of the Federal Reserve, deploying every tool available short of the one he does not legally possess: the power to fire him. The irony now developing at pace is that the Justice Department investigation Trump encouraged into Powell’s…
More than five years after departing the Trump White House, Kellyanne Conway remains one of the most visible figures in Republican political circles, splitting her time between media commentary, corporate consulting, and high-profile speaking engagements. Conway served as Senior Counselor to the President during the first Trump administration from 2017 to 2020, and made history…
Acting IRS commissioner Scott Bessent has announced a “gigantic” tax refund for millions of Americans due to President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Millions of Americans filing their 2025 federal tax returns this spring are receiving significantly larger refunds than in previous years, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicting what he called a…