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Yesterday — 16 October 2025Main stream

China’s Rare Earth Restrictions Aim to Beat U.S. at Its Own Game

Beijing’s latest effort to weaponize global supply chains is modeled on the American technology controls that it has long criticized.

© Pool photo by Ken Ishii

President Trump has threatened to cancel a meeting with China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, who spoke at the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women in Beijing on Monday.

High-End Amenities in Office Buildings? These N.Y. Tenants Say No Thanks.

16 October 2025 at 17:00
Leasing activity for older buildings, hit hard during the pandemic, is gaining momentum, a strong indicator that the overall office market in Manhattan is on the upswing.

© Karsten Moran for The New York Times

Ken Podziba, chief executive of Bike New York, looked at two dozen spaces before deciding on a nine-story building constructed in 1922 steps from Grand Central Terminal.

U.S. to Take Control of More Companies as China’s Rare Earth Dominance Grows

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said China’s dominance of rare earths calls for a more assertive American industrial policy.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, left, with the U.S. trade representative, Jamieson Greer. Mr. Bessent said the United States must become less reliant on China for rare-earth minerals.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Global Economic Growth Remains Sluggish as Trump’s Tariff Threats Loom

14 October 2025 at 21:10
The International Monetary Fund said the impact of trade tensions had been limited so far, but it expects growth to slow.

© Scott McIntyre for The New York Times

Price pressures from the trade tensions are muted so far but building, the International Monetary Fund said in a new report.

Big Banks Credit ‘Resilient’ Economy for Profit Growth

14 October 2025 at 22:11
JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citi and Wells Fargo reported strong earnings, mostly topping analyst expectations and showing broad growth.

© Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase at the bank’s new headquarters in New York last month. “The U.S. economy generally remained resilient,” he said in an earnings release on Tuesday.

Trump Dangles $20 Billion Lifeline for Argentina, With Strings Attached

President Trump said the economic support is contingent on whether his political ally, President Javier Milei of Argentina, remains in power.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

President Trump appearing with President Javier Milei of Argentina outside the White House on Tuesday.

President Trump, Please Extend the A.C.A. Tax Credits

2 October 2025 at 21:04
Insurance through the Affordable Care Act is about to get much more expensive for millions of Americans. Democrats are using the government shutdown as leverage to try to address this. In this video, Holly Hudnall, a middle-class mom from Kentucky, asks President Trump to make insurance more affordable for families like hers.

Government Shutdown: Democrats Did the Smart Thing

The U.S. government is shut down. Democrats and Republicans failed to agree on a stopgap funding bill, leading to the shutdown. The journalist Molly Jong-Fast argues that the Democrats did the smart thing by refusing to acquiesce to President Trump.
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