Trump named a three-member White House panel to decide whether there is cause to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook, with a closed hearing on Nov. 5. Quartz reported that Cook's last written reply is due Nov. 10, so the route to opening a Fed board seat now runs on a calendar.
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Unconfirmed reports of a 90-day tariff pause, carried by CNBC and Reuters, swung US stocks about $2.4 trillion in ten minutes on April 7, 2025. As firms give AI agents authority to trade on news, the rules for acting on unconfirmed claims become part of the product.
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A day after Anthropic's Dario Amodei asked the industry to brake, the president told reporters in Ireland that whoever wins AI wins, and the federal answer on offer this week is a round of meetings.
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Kevin Hassett wants Jerome Powell off the Fed board, a move that would let Trump nominate someone to one of the FOMC's 12 votes. Powell voted for the September hike Hassett says he disagreed with, so the seat is worth one dissent until other voters move.
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Kevin Hassett, the White House's top economic adviser, projected baseline US growth of about 4%, roughly double the 2% private forecasters expect. A company budgeting off official figures is using a forecast that rests on AI gains he says the statistics have not yet picked up.
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Bureau of Economic Analysis revisions cut July's core-services PCE inflation by 34 basis points to 3.35%, partly via new methods for three categories. August came in at the same 3.35% on the new method, so the revision lowered the level of inflation without slowing it.
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Kevin Hassett, the White House's top economist, says three-month core inflation near 2% leaves the Fed little room to raise rates. Wednesday's August PCE release will test his window on the inflation gauge the Fed itself prefers.
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Trump promised $5,000 to each American adult if his party keeps its congressional majorities, and Fortune reports that such a proposal could cost more than $1 trillion. No financing was attached to it.
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Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI all say the pace of AI development should slow. Trump called the people raising it a negative force. The commitments that reach an operator's roadmap are the ones the labs impose on themselves.
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Trump promised American adults $5,000 each if Republicans hold Congress, a payout put near $1.3 trillion, and the two Republican leaders who would have to legislate it have both declined to promise it.
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Mike Johnson said Congress would vote tomorrow if it had the solution. He is still sending the House home after this week until after the November elections. He proposed a meeting of chief executives instead.
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The president told reporters in Ireland that "whoever wins AI wins", a day after Anthropic's Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow down, and the only next step anyone in Washington has named is a meeting this week.
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Brent stayed above $100 even after a 2.81% drop, U.S. diesel reached $6.06 a gallon, and Saudi output fell to a three-decade low. Reported hike odds of 86.5% leave 13.5% for the outcome that would move more.
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Space Force growth and lunar ambition are the stated rationale, and NASA's own leadership drew the design work on a four-month clock. The announcement puts no size on the workforce gap the school would close.
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