Trump administration last Friday Announced A new $ 100,000 annual levy on H -1B visa, allowing 85,000 skilled foreign workers to enter the US every year. This fee is applied to companies that hire these workers, mainly in technology. This is not the veteran enterprise capitalist Michael Moritz. In a new, scary Financial Times OddFormer…
Congressional Budget Office director Phillip Swagel said Monday that President Donald Trump’s tariffs appear to have pushed inflation up higher than CBO analysts had initially expected. His views differ from those of Wall Street analysts, many of whom have been bracing for tariff-driven price hikes, but have yet to see them in materialize. Speaking on CNBC’s…
Utah Governor Spencer Cox attends a press conference after U.S. right-wing activist, commentator, Charlie Kirk, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, was fatally shot during an event at Utah Valley University, in Orem, Utah, U.S. September 10, 2025. Jim Urquhart | Reuters Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Sunday that the man arrested in connection…
President Donald Trump told CNBC on Thursday that he believes “the country will heal” in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination. CNBC’s Joe Kernen said Trump lamented Kirk’s death in a phone call, describing himself as “devastated.” Kernen said Trump told him that Kirk helped him win the 2024 presidential election, and that…
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 26, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday appealed to the Supreme Court a federal court ruling that said that most of his country-specific tariffs are illegal, setting up a legal clash that…
U.S. President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Aug. 26, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday called on pharmaceutical companies to “justify the success” of their Covid drugs days after the Food and Drug Administration set new limits on who can receive…
White House trade advisor Peter Navarro speaks to members of the media near the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 21, 2025. Nathan Howard | Reuters President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro said Sunday that “it will be the end of the United States” if the president’s sweeping tariffs…
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during the signing of executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 25, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade agenda hit a significant snag this week when a federal appeals court ruled that most of his “reciprocal tariffs”…
President Trump’s efforts to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook could jeopardize the central bank’s independence, according to longtime investor Rebecca Patterson. “We shouldn’t ignore this at all. This is a big deal what’s going on,” the former Bridgewater Associates chief investment strategist told CNBC’s “Fast Money” this week. Patterson, now a senior fellow at…
Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook on Thursday sued President Donald Trump, seeking to block his unprecedented move to fire her. The suit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., also names Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and the Board of Governors itself as defendants. Trump said Monday that he was removing Cook because of allegations that she committed…
