Morning News: September 23, 2025

Swedish Riksbank Cuts Key Rate and Signals Further Easing Is Unlikely

EU, Indonesia Ink Trade Deal After Years of Talks

European Business Activity Inches Up But Impetus Remains Elusive

Chainsaw Politics Are Not Cutting It in Argentina

China Floods the World With Cheap Exports After Trump’s Tariffs

Tariffs Will Hit Slowing U.S. Economy Hard in 2026, OECD Says

Dow Futures Steady Ahead of Powell Comments

Miran Is Contradicting Himself on the Case for Big Rate Cuts

$37 Trillion Debt Vivifies the Perils of Future Budgetary Balance

Ignore ‘Open Letters’ From Economists

CFPB Ends Monitoring of Apple, U.S. Bank Years Ahead of Schedule

Some PE Firms Doomed to Fail as High-Flying Industry Loses Its Way

Eurozone Faces Inflation, Growth Threat From China’s Rare Earths Dominance, ECB Warns

How Norway Adopted New Tech in Its Hunt for ‘Missing’ Oil

Spiraling Power Costs Are Now a Major Political Issue in the US

Pricing Water Risk Takes On Growing Urgency Amid Scarcity Fears

An $800 Billion Revenue Shortfall Threatens AI Future, Bain Says

Nintendo’s Switch 2 Sales Boom Fails to Ease Game Developers’ Gloom

Jaguar Faces Prolonged Shutdown After a Cyberattack

Tech’s H-1B Debate: Is Trump’s New Fee a Solution or a Setback?

Trump’s $100,000 Visa Fee Knocks Down Bridge Between India and the U.S.

Who Uses H-1B Visas the Most, in Charts

USDA Puts Food Researchers on Leave

The FDA’s Vinay Prasad Is a Potentially Fatal Barrier to the Right to Try

Trump’s Tylenol Briefing Peddled Junk Science

Scientists Rebuke Trump’s Tylenol-Autism Claim, Stress Fever Is Bigger Danger in Pregnancy

This Hated Stock Suddenly Looks Like an Obesity Bargain

A Charlie Kirk Poster Reignites Debate Over When Businesses Can Refuse Service

Kimmel’s Late-Night Show to Return to ABC Tuesday

The Kimmel Saga Reveals a MAGA Strategy — and Its Defense

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Posted by Eddy Elfenbein on September 23rd, 2025 at 7:06 am

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