###### A spirited roundup of the biggest stories about the biggest businesses in the biggest economy in the world. New episodes Fridays at 10 a.m. ET. ##### [Big Business This Week: Just How Big A Threat Is AI to Global Finance?](/content/media/big-business-this-week-just-how-big-a-threat-is-ai-to-global-finance/index.html) ###### When Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (above) and Fed chair Jay Powell jointly summon America’s top bankers to a meeting in Washington, you know it’s big. 2 days ago ##### [Big Business This Week: The Great Iran War Supply Chain Disruption](/content/media/big-business-this-week-the-great-iran-war-supply-chain-disruption/index.html) ###### The ripple effects of the Iran War go beyond oil tankers and the Strait of Hormuz, affecting global supply chains for everything. 9 days ago ##### [Big Business This Week: “Stocks will crash,” says one expert; “Stocks will rise,” says another](/content/media/big-business-this-week-stocks-will-crash-says-one-expert-stocks-will-rise-says-another/index.html) ###### Big Business This Week caught up with a naysayer and a yaysayer about the stock market, to see if we could make head or tail of the situation. ###### [Big Business This Week: Insider trading: “What’s needed is enforcement — not new excuses.”](/content/media/big-business-this-week-insider-trading-whats-needed-is-enforcement-not-new-excuses/index.html) ###### Somebody got rich quick on Monday morning. But was it insider trading? And what can be done? 3 weeks ago ###### [Big Business This Week: Does the private credit crisis have echoes Of 2008?](/content/media/big-business-this-week-does-the-private-credit-crisis-have-echoes-of-2008/index.html) ###### If you asked anyone in 2007 what a “subprime mortgage” was, they wouldn’t have any idea. So here’s a question for you: Do you know what the private credit 4 weeks ago ###### [Big Business This Week: War and the oil price swings rattling global markets](/content/media/big-business-this-week-war-and-the-oil-price-swings-rattling-global-markets/index.html) ###### Oil markets have been lurching up and down as the U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign against Iran shuts down shipping in the Persian Gulf. 5 weeks ago ###### [Big Business This Week: The three “economic shock channels” from the Iran war, apart from oil prices](/content/media/big-business-this-week-the-three-economic-shock-channels-from-the-iran-war-apart-from-oil-prices/index.html) ###### The U.S. and Israeli bombing of Iran had a swift effect, if not on regime change, then at least on the global economy. 6 weeks ago ###### [Big Business This Week: Will tariff policy ever stabilize enough so that big business can plan?](/content/media/big-business-this-week-will-tariff-policy-ever-stabilize-enough-so-that-big-business-can-plan/index.html) ###### “Whatever you had planned, whatever you thought you knew is changed,” said one analyst this week following the overhaul of tariff policy. 7 weeks ago ###### [Big Business This Week: It’s a sports book. It’s a casino. Wait. It’s a “prediction market?!”](/content/media/big-business-this-week-its-a-sports-book-its-a-casino-wait-its-a-prediction-market/index.html) ###### Is a “prediction market” a gambling platform or an investment vehicle? That’s the question dividing state regulators from the Trump Administration. 8 weeks ago ###### [Big Business This Week: Does the Dollar’s decline matter?](/content/media/big-business-this-week-does-the-dollars-decline-matter/index.html) ###### A quiet downturn has been underway since the beginning of the most recent Administration, as the U.S. dollar weakens. But does it matter? 2 months ago ###### [Big Business This Week: The SaaS-pocalypse hits the tech markets](/content/media/big-business-this-week-the-saas-pocalypse-hits-the-tech-markets/index.html) ###### All it took was a gentle nudge for tech markets to fall significantly. 2 months ago ###### [Big Business This Week: Can global prosperity survive a ‘Doom Loop’?](/content/media/big-business-this-week-can-global-prosperity-survive-a-doom-loop/index.html) ###### Have we seen the end of 80 years of increasing global prosperity and relative peace? 3 months ago ###### [Big Business This Week: What happens when “Sell America” meets “TACO”?](/content/media/big-business-this-week-what-happens-when-sell-america-meets-taco/index.html) ###### How resilient are the U.S. markets? Will they always bounce back on the TACO trade? Or is it possible to go to far? 3 months ago ###### [Big Business This Week: Will pressure on Fed chair Powell backfire?](/content/media/big-business-this-week-will-pressure-on-fed-chair-powell-backfire/index.html) ###### The last 12 months have seen an extraordinary change in the way the U.S. economy works. Some analysts say that hasn’t been working out very well. 3 months ago ###### [Big Business This Week: The $180 Billion gamble on Venezuela’s oil](/content/media/big-business-this-week-the-180-billion-gamble-on-venezuelas-oil/index.html) ###### Experts are finding it hard to see how the plan to exploit Venezuela’s oil makes business sense. 3 months ago ###### [Big Business This Week: Energy, affordability & management ’26 trends](/content/media/big-business-this-week-energy-affordability-management-26-trends/index.html) ###### Editor Peter Green spoke with experts about the trends that will shape big business and the economy in 2026. 4 months ago ###### [Big Business This Week: Xmas tricks retailers use to “hack our minds”](/content/media/big-business-this-week-xmas-tricks-retailers-use-to-hack-our-minds/index.html) ###### How do brands keep consumers spending even when they're strapped for cash at Xmas? 4 months ago ###### [Big Business This Week: Inside the battle for Warner Bros.](/content/media/big-business-this-week-inside-the-multi-billion-dollar-battle-for-wa/index.html) ###### It’s the intrigue of the hour in Hollywood, and the implications are real for the U.S. entertainment and news industries. 4 months ago ###### [Big Business This Week: Retail’s new trilogy: Gen Z, AI, and Ozempic](/content/media/big-business-this-week-retails-new-trilogy-gen-z-ai-and-ozempic/index.html) ###### We sat down with Ali Furman, U.S. Consumer Markets Industry Leader at consulting firm PwC to ask what trends she garnered from the initial data this year. 4 months ago