Chris Matthews
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Washington correspondent for MarketWatch Email: cmatthews@marketwatch.com
It's true! Excited for my next move but sad to leave my wonderful MarketWatch colleagues.
June 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
It's true! Excited for my next move but sad to leave my wonderful MarketWatch colleagues.
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S&P 500 closes up 5.7% on a week during which the Trump admin and China put lock-out tariffs on each other. Taxes high enough to cripple the most important trading relationship in global economic history.
April 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
S&P 500 closes up 5.7% on a week during which the Trump admin and China put lock-out tariffs on each other. Taxes high enough to cripple the most important trading relationship in global economic history.
Did a deep dive into whether President Trump can be sanctioned for flouting insider trading laws in the lead up to his reversal on reciprocal tariffs. www.marketwatch.com/story/can-a-...
Can a president break insider-trading laws? Trump’s online post sparks debate.
Six Democratic Senators sent a letter Friday to the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission requesting an investigation.
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April 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Did a deep dive into whether President Trump can be sanctioned for flouting insider trading laws in the lead up to his reversal on reciprocal tariffs. www.marketwatch.com/story/can-a-...
There’s no evidence in the real-time data that DOGE is saving taxpayers money
Despite Musk’s claims, Trump administration spending on pace to surpass Biden’s
The U.S. Treasury is on pace to spend 7.4% more in 2025 than last year.
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March 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
There’s no evidence in the real-time data that DOGE is saving taxpayers money
Baseball season is a big test for whether this app can replace what we lost with the death of Twitter. So far, so good! Just need the Phillies to wake up.
March 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Baseball season is a big test for whether this app can replace what we lost with the death of Twitter. So far, so good! Just need the Phillies to wake up.
Markets are underestimating the potential impact of a protracted and dramatic government shutdown. The unprecedented factor in this shutdown threat is how it could be leveraged by DOGE to cement control over the federal government’s payment systems.
March 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Markets are underestimating the potential impact of a protracted and dramatic government shutdown. The unprecedented factor in this shutdown threat is how it could be leveraged by DOGE to cement control over the federal government’s payment systems.
In 2016, AppLovin founders thought they had struck gold. The mobile advertising firm, founded by Adam Foroughi and his team, had inked a $1.4 billion deal to sell itself to China’s Orient Hontai Capital. A massive payday was on the horizon.
Then Washington intervened.
Then Washington intervened.
A U.S. security review made AppLovin America’s hot stock — and its founders rich
Who says government can’t create wealth? CFIUS, an obscure panel playing an increasing market role, blocked the sale of AppLovin years before a stock-market bonanza.
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February 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
In 2016, AppLovin founders thought they had struck gold. The mobile advertising firm, founded by Adam Foroughi and his team, had inked a $1.4 billion deal to sell itself to China’s Orient Hontai Capital. A massive payday was on the horizon.
Then Washington intervened.
Then Washington intervened.
Google is toast
I think the totally understandable negative polarization among people on the left towards AI has obscured for people just how shockingly advanced the tech is getting. The consumer facing image slop is laughable but DeepSeek’s research abilities are insane.
February 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Google is toast
Musk opponents scored a victory in court Thursday
Inside the fight to stop Elon Musk and DOGE from accessing your personal data
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has moved quickly to set up shop in a critical Treasury Department office that handles the vast majority of payments made by the federal gover...
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February 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Musk opponents scored a victory in court Thursday
"I am fascinated by history, and I don't know what it is. I believe that, whatever it is, it is profoundly important, and I don't know why." -- Marilynne Robinson
January 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"I am fascinated by history, and I don't know what it is. I believe that, whatever it is, it is profoundly important, and I don't know why." -- Marilynne Robinson
President-elect Trump will enter office with the lowest unemployment rate since Richard Nixon in 1969.
Is Donald Trump inheriting the best economy in history?
President-elect Trump will enter office with the lowest unemployment rate since Richard Nixon in 1969 — but red flags remain.
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January 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
President-elect Trump will enter office with the lowest unemployment rate since Richard Nixon in 1969.
"It’s built into the fabric of life with Trump that when you say something like this, a chorus of people will say you’re being naïve, or this isn’t normal or whatever else. But that is simply a militant commitment to living within the eddies and currents of this man’s drama."
Greenland, Panama, Canada … None of that is Going to Happen talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/green...
Greenland, Panama, Canada … None of that is Going to Happen
Some of you will disagree with this. And perhaps the future will vindicate your criticism. But I don’t think we should be distracted by Trump’s nonsense about Greenland, the Panama Canal or bum…
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January 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"It’s built into the fabric of life with Trump that when you say something like this, a chorus of people will say you’re being naïve, or this isn’t normal or whatever else. But that is simply a militant commitment to living within the eddies and currents of this man’s drama."
Scott Alexander once again doing God's work talking sense into libertarians. Bureaucracy Isn't Measured In Bureaucrats www.astralcodexten.com/p/bureaucrac...
Bureaucracy Isn't Measured In Bureaucrats
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January 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Scott Alexander once again doing God's work talking sense into libertarians. Bureaucracy Isn't Measured In Bureaucrats www.astralcodexten.com/p/bureaucrac...
Bitcoin is pulling back after a serious post-Trump rally. The movement to create a strategic bitcoin reserve could be the asset's next catalyst. Trump and his allies in the crypto industry want reverse the correction with the creation of a bitcoin strategic reserve, paid for with public resources.
December 20, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Bitcoin is pulling back after a serious post-Trump rally. The movement to create a strategic bitcoin reserve could be the asset's next catalyst. Trump and his allies in the crypto industry want reverse the correction with the creation of a bitcoin strategic reserve, paid for with public resources.
Mitch McConnell's strategy in 2009-2010 was a disaster for the conservative movement. Obama Passed the ARA, ACA, Dodd-Frank and then got reelected in '12.
Hilarious to see Democrats live through Mitch McConnell in 2009-2010 (among many other examples) and then think their best strategy is trying to seem reasonable by deal-cutting with extremists and grifters like Musk, RFK, etc. Um.
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December 18, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Mitch McConnell's strategy in 2009-2010 was a disaster for the conservative movement. Obama Passed the ARA, ACA, Dodd-Frank and then got reelected in '12.
New CBO analysis says that a universal Trump tariff of 10% and 60% on China would raise $2.7 trillion over 10 years and raise consumer prices by roughly 1%. Not a very progressive tax, but seems like a once-in-a-generation opportunity to get the GOP to pass some tax hikes (and take the blame).
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December 18, 2024 at 6:44 PM
New CBO analysis says that a universal Trump tariff of 10% and 60% on China would raise $2.7 trillion over 10 years and raise consumer prices by roughly 1%. Not a very progressive tax, but seems like a once-in-a-generation opportunity to get the GOP to pass some tax hikes (and take the blame).
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were introduced to each other by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, whose brand of right-wing nationalism was once anomalous, but is now ascendant.
December 16, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were introduced to each other by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, whose brand of right-wing nationalism was once anomalous, but is now ascendant.
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I got the Luigi Mangione manifesto. The real one, not the forgery circulating online. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-man...
Luigi's Manifesto
Exclusive: read Luigi Mangione's 262-word manifesto on the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
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December 10, 2024 at 8:51 PM
I got the Luigi Mangione manifesto. The real one, not the forgery circulating online. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-man...
In case you for whatever reason needed a list of 30 Rock Christmas episodes
December 2, 2024 at 2:16 AM
In case you for whatever reason needed a list of 30 Rock Christmas episodes
Many such cases
I think the story of media, particularly online media, in the last couple decades is basically “market becomes more efficient, society realizes inefficiency was load bearing ”
November 28, 2024 at 1:48 AM
Many such cases
Two seat majority for Rs at least to start 119th Congress
Breaking: It's official.
NBC News projects: Democrat Derek Tran wins California's 45th Congressional District. This is a flip for Democrats.
NBC News projects: Democrat Derek Tran wins California's 45th Congressional District. This is a flip for Democrats.
November 27, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Two seat majority for Rs at least to start 119th Congress
I wouldn't be surprised to see Republicans rescind these legislatively in a budget reconciliation deal to help defray the costs of Trump's planned $8 trillion tax cut www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-...
Trump could save $1.4 trillion nixing Biden executive orders
President-elect Trump and his allies in Congress are hoping to enact massive tax cuts that could cost nearly $8 trillion over ten years and will be on the lookout for potential spending cuts to defray...
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November 27, 2024 at 6:26 PM
I wouldn't be surprised to see Republicans rescind these legislatively in a budget reconciliation deal to help defray the costs of Trump's planned $8 trillion tax cut www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-...
Excellent development. High-intensity drinking makes it sound like I'm a go-getter.
Researchers are increasingly focused on a more dangerous pattern of alcohol use that they call high-intensity drinking: consuming eight or more drinks in a row for women and 10 or more drinks in a row for men. nyti.ms/3V9w72J
November 27, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Excellent development. High-intensity drinking makes it sound like I'm a go-getter.
This is very good music writing pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Father John Misty: Mahashmashana
Read Anna Gaca’s review of the album.
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November 22, 2024 at 8:54 PM
This is very good music writing pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...