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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Jill Filipovic |David Gardner |Sean Craig |David Rothkopf
What is the job of the American judiciary? If you said to decide cases based on the law and the U.S. Constitution, you would be correct—unless you’re playing by MAGA rules. Rabid supporters of Donald Trump, and the president himself, have a different view of what judges are for. In their opinion, judges should be loyalists, backing whatever the president does, no matter how unconstitutional. And they’re putting us all in jeopardy.
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2 weeks ago | 
thedailyupside.com | Sean Craig
“Bye for now, IPO later?” After watching global equities markets get throttled last week, that’s what executives at buy now, pay later (BNPL) giant Klarna are thinking. They’re not alone. Several high-profile firms that were expected to go public have decided to delay their plans rather than plunge headfirst into the chaos unleashed by the US administration’s sweeping tariffs.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Michael Daly |Sean Craig |Emell Derra Adolphus
Whether or not Elon Musk does step down as chainsaw-er-in-chief in the weeks ahead, the Social Security Administration (SSA) may be on the way to spoiling a perfect record of having sent out benefit checks every month since the very first one on Aug. 14, 1935. “The Trump co-presidency is gutting this agency,” former SSA Administrator Martin O’Malley told the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee on Tuesday.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Nandika Chatterjee |Sean Craig |Erkki Forster
Tesla has reported that delivery of vehicles in the first three months of 2025 fell nearly 13 percent as demand for the automaker’s electric cars continued to weaken amid backlash to Elon Musk’s role advising President Donald Trump. The result was well short of analysts’ expectations as Tesla revealed it shipped 336,681 vehicles in the first quarter, down from the 386,810 vehicles a year ago.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailyupside.com | Sean Craig
An acute talent shortage, increasing regulatory scrutiny, and rapid technological advancements are straining company infrastructure, staff, and clients alike. The auditing sector is not only accrual world but a cruel one. This week brings some modest praise, however.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Barry Levitt |Catherine Bouris |Sean Craig
White House adviser Peter Navarro has a wild theory about President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which have roiled the markets and rankled the United States’s trading partners over the last month. In an interview with Fox News Sunday, President Donald Trump’s senior counselor for trade and manufacturing said the president’s tariffs will amount to “the biggest tax cut in American history.”“Tariffs are tax cuts. Tariffs are jobs. Tariffs are national security. Tariffs are great for America.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Catherine Bouris |Erkki Forster |Julia Ornedo |Sean Craig
In what is surely a sign of the current stormy economic forecast, not even Fox Business host Larry Kudlow could find a way to put a positive spin on today’s market news: that the Dow Jones dropped by 715 points, or 1.7 percent. If that weren’t enough, the S&P 500 dropped by 2 percent, having one of its worst days in the past two years, while NASDAQ fell by 2.7 percent.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Janna Brancolini |Sean Craig |David Rothkopf
Government officials and business leaders who visit Donald Trump have learned to come bearing gifts, flattery or ideally both to win over the relentlessly transactional president. Offering fancy gifts to world leaders has long been customary diplomatic practice, but Trump’s guests have gotten the message that they need to be especially strategic with their proffered tokens of respect and fealty, Axios reported.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | William Vaillancourt |Yasmeen Hamadeh |Sean Craig |Kenneal Patterson
Mark Kelly went on CNN Thursday after Elon Musk doubled down on calling the Arizona senator, Gulf War veteran, and astronaut a “traitor” over his support for Ukraine, saying the Trump ally is only aligning himself with “a bunch of billionaires” and has views which are too Russia-friendly.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | David Gardner |Sean Craig
Elon Musk is facing growing unease over the conflicts of interest created by his continuing ownership stake in a number of companies—and the fact that many of the federal agencies his DOGE lieutenants are cutting happen to have regulatory power over them. While government appointees must make their outside business interests publicly available, the world’s richest man is serving as a policy advisor, answerable only to Donald Trump.
