The American public is souring on Elon Musk, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Why it matters: The world's richest person has become a powerful political player, having made himself a close ally of President Trump and leader of the Department of Government Efficiency.
His political actions have done damage to the Tesla brand, driving sales of the publicly traded company lower and prompting Musk to say last week that he will take a step back from DOGE leadership.
Threat level: 33% of U.S. adults had a "very or somewhat favorable" opinion about Musk in the April survey, compared with 41% in December.
Fake movie trailers are proliferating online, building hype for films based on a false premise and often bogus footage.
State of play: The genre has "blown up into a business for creators who use artificial-intelligence tools to churn out hundreds of videos on short order — many of which seem less artful appreciation than engagement bait," the Washington Post reports today.
It's part of the surge of what critics call "AI slop."
The trend has "prompted YouTube to cut off ad revenue for two fake-trailer channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers," WaPo says.
In other cases, some Hollywood studios have asked YouTube to "ensure that the ad revenue made from views flows in their direction," even when the videos are counterfeits, Deadline reported.
🧹 Nathan's thought bubble: All I want is an authentic trailer for "Wicked: For Good" — is that too much to ask?
This is set to be a blockbuster week for economic data. Making sense of it will be even trickier than usual, given trade war-induced crosscurrents.
The big picture: New readings on GDP, employment, and more will shed some light on how the economy has fared heading into spring, but businesses' efforts to get ahead of tariffs — both in their supply chains and hiring decisions — will make for murky data readings.
It's not just that the future is uncertain. More so than usual, the present and recent past are uncertain.
Canadians head to the polls Monday to decide whether Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party maintains the reins or whether the Conservatives return to power for the first time in nearly a decade.
If you were president of the United States and wanted to engineer a recession by summer, at least one economist says a very effective way of doing that would be to announce sweeping "Liberation Day" tariffs in April.
Why it matters: That's the message of a new 40-page slide deck from Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok, entitled "The Voluntary Trade Reset Recession," the probability of which he now puts at 90%.
President Trump's improvisational and unpredictable leadership style has forced Cabinet officials, advisers and friends to develop a playbook to scuttle ideas they consider dumb, dangerous or undoable.
Why it matters: White House aides, Trump's Cabinet and top CEOs often resort to indirect tricks and techniques to sway "the boss."
The U.S. and China are talking on key economic matters, despite what the Chinese government may say publicly, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday.
Why it matters: The trade war between the world's two largest economies threatens the entire global order, but there's significant disagreement about whether there's any actually progress toward a resolution.
President Trump is prepared to bail out American farmers if the trade war continues squeezing commodity exports, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Sunday.
Why it matters: Exports of key commodities are plunging, particularly soybean and pork sales to China, threatening tens of billions of dollars in farm income.
