Matt Levin

1 week ago | marketplace.org | Matt Levin

The belle of the artificial intelligence ball reported earnings — of course, that’s Nvidia, the computer chip design company that has become a bellwether for whether this AI economic revolution will turn out to be, well, actually revolutionary. Over the first three months of 2025, Nvidia’s revenue was up 12% from the previous quarter and up 69% from a year ago, its latest earnings report said.

2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Matt Levin

Unless you are super into cryptocurrency, it’s really easy to tune out crypto news — just like you tune out your cousin who spends family get-togethers bragging about all the money he’s making from Bitcoin. But you might want to actually pay attention to the piece of crypto news that came out of the U.S. Senate last night: A bill called the GENIUS Act took a key step towards becoming law.

2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Matt Levin

Microsoft laid off about 3% of its workforce last week, some 6,000 employees in total. A big chunk of those workers were software engineers, aka coders, according to Bloomberg. At the firm’s big annual developer conference this week, Microsoft announced a suite of new artificial intelligence products, including what it calls an “asynchronous coding agent” that can fix bugs, add features and do a lot of other programming tasks. Now, correlation is not causation, and tech layoffs happen all the time.

3 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Matt Levin

As you probably know, the United States’ national debt is really big. As of right now, about $36 trillion-big. And as you very likely also know, a large chunk of that $36 trillion is issued in U.S. Treasury bonds — government debt that, historically, has been eagerly gobbled up by investors around the world as one of the safest assets in all of global finance.

3 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Matt Levin

There is a change coming to the S&P 500, starting next Monday, out goes Discover Financial Services — the credit card company is being acquired by Capital One — and in goes Coinbase, the crypto trading platform with a market capitalization upwards of $60 billion. American University law professor Hilary Allen has published several papers on the threats cryptocurrencies pose to the financial system. She’s testified before Congress in favor of stronger crypto regulation.