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Today — 10 December 2025Main stream

Trump’s Nvidia Chip Deal Reverses Decades of Technology Restrictions

10 December 2025 at 08:14
President Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to sell its chips to China has raised questions about whether he is prioritizing short-term economic gain over long-term American security interests.

© Pete Marovich for The New York Times

President Trump with Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, at the White House in April.
Yesterday — 9 December 2025Main stream

Supreme Court Struggles With How to Insulate the Federal Reserve From Politics

9 December 2025 at 18:04
The president seemed poised for a big Supreme Court win letting him remove officials without cause. But the justices appeared to struggle with how to insulate the Federal Reserve from politics.

© Caroline Gutman for The New York Times

President Trump has mused about trying to fire Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, but he has not followed through. Indeed, no president has sought to remove a member of the Fed board without cause.

A Key Question for the Supreme Court: What About the Fed?

9 December 2025 at 18:04
The president seemed poised for a big Supreme Court win letting him remove officials without cause. But the justices appeared to struggle with how to insulate the Federal Reserve from politics.

© Caroline Gutman for The New York Times

President Trump has mused about trying to fire Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, but he has not followed through. Indeed, no president has sought to remove a member of the Fed board without cause.

Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ

9 December 2025 at 19:00
The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushing up some prices.

© Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

In tests in four cities across the country, nearly 200 volunteers checked prices on 20 grocery items on Instacart. They found differences in item after item.

As Prices Increase From Tariffs, Trump Administration Goes on the Defensive About Affordability

10 December 2025 at 00:32
The president rolled out a $12 billion bailout for farmers as he makes the case that his policy is working — or will soon.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

The president announced $12 billion in bailout money for America’s farmers who have been battered in large part by his trade policies.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Powell Faces Pressure From Multiple Fronts as Fed Prepares to Cut Rates

8 December 2025 at 18:03
The chair of the central bank is dealing with internal divisions while being besieged by President Trump and front-runners jockeying to replace him.

© Caroline Gutman for The New York Times

The conundrum Jerome H. Powell faces in his final months as the Federal Reserve chair is unlike anything he has experienced in his eight-year tenure.

China Started Separating Its Economy From the West Years Ago

4 November 2025 at 00:21
Two decades of sustained effort to build national self-reliance and minimize imports have antagonized trade partners but fortified what a senior adviser called Beijing’s “bulwark” against conflicts.
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