Through an executive order signed last week, Donald Trump has instructed federal regulators to review and clarify current requirements around 401(k) pension plans so that the professionally managed funds can invest in cryptocurrencies and private equity accounts.
Category: TRENDS ON THE U.S. ECONOMIC FRONT – Aug 12 2025
TOP TREND 2023, OFFICE BUILDING BUST: BONDHOLDERS IN DENVER OFFICE TOWER FACE A WIPEOUT
The collapse of the U.S. office market may have slowed but it is not yet over, as bondholders in Denver’s 42-year-old Wells Fargo Center have discovered.
TOP TREND 2024, EV GO FU: U.S. AUTOMAKERS SHIFT FROM EVs BACK TO GAS BUGGIES
Detroit is returning to a focus on internal combustion passenger vehicles after the Trump administration and a Republican Congress have voided policies and regulations that focused carmakers on the transition to electric mobility, The Wall Street Journal reported.
“BIG BEAUTIFUL” TAX LAW SHOWERS CASH ON BIG CORPORATIONS
Donald Trump’s “big beautiful” tax-cut bill Congress passed in July has handed AT&T an extra $1.5 to $2 billion this year in tax savings, the equivalent of an 11-percent increase in its free cash flow, the company recently said.
U.S. IS IN A “REDNECK RECESSION,” ECONOMISTS SAY
The U.S. economy is splitting in two, the Financial Times reported.
ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
Again, and again, and again, as we say, “You can’t make this shit up.” Month-after-month, week-after-week, day-after-day, President Trump says he will do one thing then backtracks and/or does another of his this or that.
CORPORATE STOCK BUYBACKS FUEL STOCK MARKET RALLY
To 11 August, U.S. companies have announced $983.6 billion in stock buybacks, the most in this part of a year since at least 1982, according to research firm Birinyi Associates.






