Economic Impact

Investors Beware: 7 Stocks to Avoid on October 22, 2025 Amid Alarming Warnings

Shutdown Chaos: Bipartisan Deal Slips, Stocks Slip – What’s Next?

In-depth Report: Congress faces a critical deadline as continuing resolutions lapse and a partial government shutdown extends into its fourth week theatlantic.com reuters.com. On Oct. 23, Senate Democrats blocked a short-term funding bill that would have guaranteed federal pay, arguing it lacked needed protections (for example, extensions of expiring health subsidies). Republicans counter that Democrats are effectively instigating the shutdown by demanding policy concessions theatlantic.com reuters.com. As Princeton historian Julian Zelizer notes, “Trump is using a shutdown to prioritize pay to a subset of workers” – a novel tactic that Republicans now echo reuters.com. The Senate vote failure (and a

24 October 2025

Government Shutdown Panic: Stocks Tumble, Jobs Data Vanish & Millions Brace for Impact

How the Shutdown Happened As the Sept. 30 spending deadline loomed, Congress remained deadlocked. The Republican-led House had passed a “clean” Continuing Resolution to extend funding (through Nov. 21 at existing levels), but Senate Democrats refused to back it without adding policy changes, chiefly extensions of Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance subsidies and undoing GOP Medicaid cuts reuters.com theguardian.com. Senate Majority Leader John Thune tried (and failed) to invoke cloture on both the House GOP plan and a Democratic proposal that would fund through October with health-care add-ons. Neither measure secured the 60 votes needed, and the Senate adjourned without

1 October 2025

Current Events · Economy · Employment · Government · Stock Market

The Economic Impacts of Blue Origin’s Spaceflights

As of mid-2025, New Shepard had completed about 32 flights (12 crewed) and carried over 60 passengers. Blue Origin’s New Glenn heavy orbital rocket achieved its first successful orbital launch in January 2025. One New Shepard seat was effectively selling for about $1.3 million, well above Virgin Galactic’s roughly $450,000 per seat. NASA awarded Blue Origin a $3.4 billion fixed-price contract in 2023 to develop a Human Landing System for Artemis V. Blue Origin has secured about $8 billion in Space Force National Security Space Launch contracts, including roughly $5.6B in Lane 1 and $2.4B in Lane 2. In early

16 June 2025

Blue Origin · Commercial Space · Economic Impact · Space Economy · Spaceflight