Economy

Business Cycle Indicators – Key NBER and Alternatives

NFP underwhelms and prior months revised downward, civilian employment and civilian employment adjusted to NFP concept moving downward. Figure 1: NFP...

Jul 02, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Company vehicle didn’t make fatal commute compensable: Texas appeals

A Texas appeals court on Thursday ruled that Old Republic Insurance Co. does not have to pay workers compensation death benefits to the family of an E...

Jun 29, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Parents win coverage fight over son’s death from “Ethanol Extraction”

The parents of a Massachusetts man who died after drinking a product called “Ethanol Extraction” have won a round in their fight to access insurance c...

Jun 29, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

AI use amplifies professional liability risks

As businesses across the economy adopt artificial intelligence tools, they face heightened risks and exposures associated with the powerful technology...

Jun 26, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Top insurance brokers, No. 9: Howden Insurance Brokers

Howden Insurance Brokers continued its rapid expansion over the past year, increasing revenue and strengthening its position among the world’s 10 larg...

Jun 26, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Top insurance brokers, No. 5: Brown & Brown

Family-run since its founding in 1939, Brown and Brown is breaking revenue records and absorbing its biggest-ever acquisition while fending off invest...

Jun 26, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Business Cycle Indicators as of End-June

Personal income, consumption, slightly above consensus; manufacturing and trade industry sales (April), and 3rd release GDO: Figure 1: NFP employment...

Jun 25, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

Colombia's Cocaine Trade Now Outearns Its Oil Exports

SpaceX Wants to Fuel Its Mars Ambitions With Its Own Gas Pipeline Drug lords in Colombia are making more money from cocaine than the government is mak...

Jun 25, 2026 • 5 min read

Markets

Asia's Crude Buying Spree Is Running Out of Steam

SpaceX Wants to Fuel Its Mars Ambitions With Its Own Gas Pipeline What I Cover Tsvetana Paraskova is an energy and commodities journalist who has cont...

Jun 25, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Kazakhstan Lands $12 Billion in EU Deals to Expand Energy and Trade Ties

SpaceX Wants to Fuel Its Mars Ambitions With Its Own Gas Pipeline Eurasianet is an independent news organization that covers news from and about the S...

Jun 25, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Russia Turns Asia’s Oil Shock Into an Indonesian Opening

SpaceX Wants to Fuel Its Mars Ambitions With Its Own Gas Pipeline Natalia Katona is a freelance commodity analyst, based in the United Arab Emirates....

Jun 25, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

The AI Arms Race Isn’t About Technology – It’s About Electricity

Iraq Is Keeping Its Syria Oil Route—Even If Hormuz Reopens Josh Owens is the Content Director at Oilprice.com and a veteran energy journalist with ove...

Jun 21, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

Britain’s Energy Crisis Is Driving Manufacturing Offshore

Iraq Is Keeping Its Syria Oil Route—Even If Hormuz Reopens Alex Kimani is a veteran finance writer, investor, engineer and researcher for Safehaven.co...

Jun 21, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Analysis of Industrial Production and Manufacturing Indicators

Industrial production increased by 0.1% month-over-month, falling short of the 0.3% consensus forecast. Key figures include non-farm payroll employmen...

Jun 15, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

OpenAI Secures Legal Victory Against xAI's Trade Secrets Allegations

A federal judge has dismissed the lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s xAI, which claimed that OpenAI unlawfully acquired trade secrets, signaling a significa...

Jun 15, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Legal Challenges Intensify for Clown Rights in Federal Court

Amid rising public fear from horror films, Art the Clown contends with a significant federal lawsuit concerning procedural documentation issues.

Jun 15, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Employment Trends in Small Firms Amid Economic Shifts

ADP data indicates a rise in overall employment growth, while small firm employment and their share in the market have slowed down, as illustrated by...

Jun 15, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Imagining: Would a Biden “Drill, Baby, Drill” Regime Have Mitigated a Iran-War Induced Cost-Push Shock

Heritage Foundation’s Chief Economist EJ Antoni speculates: Well, I can imagine. The world price would be slightly lower, but we wouldn’t be insulated...

Jun 11, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Trump: “I Love the Inflation”

Which is good insofar as we’re going to get plenty more of it (see quote here). PPI upside surprise +1.1% vs. +0.7 m/m (Bloomberg). Core slightly belo...

Jun 11, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Headline CPI Inflation at Consensus, Real Wages Continue to Be Eroded

Everyday prices nowcasted to outstripping measured CPI and subindices: Figure 1: CPI-all urban (bold black), CPI wage earners and clerical (green), CP...

Jun 10, 2026 • 5 min read