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Warren Buffett’s favorite gauge of stock market valuations has pulled back, indicating to investors that it might be time to buy after a month of wild volatility in April. This Buffett Indicator — which was coined by the legendary investor in 2001 and which measures the total market capitalization of US stocks relative to US…

Jeremy Applebaum, a real-estate broker in Overland Park, Kan., was out of town when his buyer broke the news by text: They were pulling out of the home-buying process, spooked by the sudden downturn in the stock market. “‘It’s frightening when you see thousands of dollars vanish,’” he said they told him. In Miami, real-estate…

Scientists say Earth is on the brink of crossing critical climate tipping points, from melting ice sheets to dying rainforests. Once triggered, these changes could accelerate global warming and be impossible to reverse. According to new research, “our planet is headed toward several catastrophic climate tipping points.” Once these tipping points are crossed, they can…

After reaching a record high in February, the S&P 500 dropped into correction in March as then-President Trump revealed his tariff strategy. As of Wednesday, the index remained 12.5% below its peak, with $6.5 trillion in market value erased since that high, according to Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices. While…

The housing market is seeing a significant slowdown, with the pace of home sales in March marking the slowest for that month since 2009, during the depths of the global financial crisis. According to MarketWatch, sales of existing homes fell to a six-month low as prospective buyers pulled back, uncertain about the economy and job…

A few weeks ago, a video circulated on President Trump’s Truth Social account. It claimed that Warren Buffett described Trump’s economic policies as “the best he’d seen in 50 years.” That would’ve been a monumental endorsement—if it were true. But, as expected, Buffett never said anything of the sort. False Quotes, Firm Response Berkshire Hathaway…

Elon Musk is shifting gears. After a sharp drop in Tesla’s first-quarter earnings, the billionaire is signaling a recommitment to his role as Tesla CEO and a retreat from his controversial involvement with the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Faced with a 71-percent plunge in earnings, Musk opened Tuesday’s earnings call with a…

A historic marker that’s outside of President Trump control spells trouble for Wall Street. In October, Wall Street’s bull market rally celebrated its two-year anniversary, and it’s shown little sign of slowing down. Since 2022 came to a close, the ageless Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI 1.39%), widely followed S&P 500 (^GSPC 1.59%), and growth-focused…

Elon Musk Asks Why the U.S. Can’t Afford Healthcare — Mark Cuban Responds with 7 Reasons and a Solution Elon Musk isn’t known for mincing words, and when he recently took to X (formerly Twitter) to ask why the U.S. can’t afford healthcare, he got an answer he may not have expected. Billionaire entrepreneur Mark…

Elon Musk, father of 14 and now Senior Advisor to the President, has been vocal about what he sees as an existential crisis: the global decline in birth rates. As he warned, unless America starts having more babies, “civilization will disappear.” But for maternal health advocates, that message rings hollow. Under Musk’s Department of Government…