Category: World

Disney has announced that it is raising its prices for its ad-free streaming service Disney+ once again, effective immediately. The no-ad service is now going from$18.99 a month to $21,49, Bloomberg reports. A recent look at streaming costs shows that providers have raised prices at…

HSBC downgraded Netflix stock from a buy to a hold this week, citing troubling trends in user engagement and YouTube’s rising influence on television viewing. HSBC analyst Mohammed Khallouf dropped his target price of Netflix stock from $96 to $76, arguing that YouTube has enjoyed…

The Brookings Institution issued a report this week that suggests the millions of migrants admitted to the United States under former President Joe Biden, which was the largest mass migration by a one-term president in American history, caused housing prices to increase while reducing wages.…

The elected daughter of two Guatemalan illegal migrants is touting “Latino Power” as she demands that $150 billion in funding for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) be redirected to fund illegal migrants. “We are going to … completely…

The AI boom is on track to become the largest single-industry infrastructure buildout in more than a century, according to new estimates published by the Brookings Institution. The Wall Street Journal reports that economist Stijn van Nieuwerburgh projects that total investment in data centers and…

Raising ‘a Fuss and a Holler’ About the Labor Market Young American men had a hot, hot, hot summer in the labor market—as long as you count working as a hot summer. A larger share of native-born men in their early twenties found themselves employed…

Factory activity in the central U.S. accelerated sharply in September, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City survey released Thursday. It was the latest in a series of reports pointing to an economy gathering momentum heading into the fourth quarter. The Kansas City…

President Donald Trump’s deputies have denied more than 440,000 asylum claims, according to data from the Washington Post. Many of the claims are from economic migrants. A Washington Post analysis of immigration court records shows immigration judges, who work at the behest of the Justice…

The number of non-citizens engaged in the U.S. banking system has fallen sharply amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal migrants. Immigrants have been closing bank accounts and going back to keep cash in their homes, according to a report by Bloomberg. Migrants are also…

On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) said he believes that voters will pick “a different direction” in the upcoming midterms, “and maybe in that direction, we will find energy policies that lead to lower diesel prices, not higher diesel…