Financial expert explains why focusing on our economy should be a priority



With tensions rising in the Middle East and concerns growing over oil supply, many Americans are wondering what the latest developments mean for the economy — and financial expert Carol Roth may have some answers.

“It’s difficult to have mobility in this economy right now, and it’s, you know, sort of a tough thing for everyday people to deal with,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere tells Roth, noting that recent developments in Iran are affecting not only the price of gas, but food prices.

“How should we be thinking of this right now, Carol?” Stu asks.

“So, I think that we should be thinking that we hope that there is a short end to this conflict both from a moral and human perspective as well as from an economic perspective,” Roth explains.


“There’s a lot of uncertainty. There’s a lot of risk, and we don’t know what the duration is going to be. And so as that information comes out and then gets, you know, kind of extrapolated and increased by algorithmic trading and hedge funds, you see a lot of volatility, but we’ve seen that somewhat normalized,” she says.

“The challenge is that, you know, a lot of the tampering of inflation ... had a lot to do with the fact that oil had been in a very good and attractive place, particularly for consumers. Maybe not as much for producers, but at least for consumers,” she continues.

Roth believes that in order to combat these issues for everyday Americans, the Trump administration needs to focus on things like small businesses.

“I’d like to see more policies that remove barriers. If you remove barriers, particularly from small businesses, they are the biggest job creators and drivers. They’re also, by the way, the ones who are going to be least susceptible to AI changes,” Roth tells Stu.

“And so, that would be a really good and easy thing to do,” she adds.

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Trump's tariffs: Economic genius or costly mistake?



President Trump’s tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico have been nothing short of controversial — and for good reason.

“China, you know, is in many ways an adversary,” economic expert and best-selling author Carol Roth tells Stu Burguiere on “Stu Does America.” “But the reality is that we are very dependent upon China on both sides of the coin, so to speak.”

“One is certainly our dependence on them for various components of making just about anything, as well as finished goods,” she explains. “There are companies that produce things in China that you just won’t be able to produce here in the United States, ever, at a price that somebody would buy it at.”


When it comes to national security issues, ammunition, and medicines, Roth believes there’s a “different argument to be made for tariffs.”

“The idea that there’s just sort of this blanket tariff pronouncements that isn’t surgical, that isn’t targeting these specific things and taking into account specific cases is probably what gives me the most pause right now,” she says.

Stu agrees but also understands the argument in favor of Trump’s tariffs.

“I think there is a sense, by a lot of people on the right now, which is like, ‘This is good. We understand we might have a little bit of pain. We’re going to raise prices a little bit, potentially, on some goods, but long-term, we need to bring this manufacturing back here, and we’re willing to kind of go down that road,’” he says.

But that’s not enough to convince either Roth or Stu that it’s the right move.

“This is a very, very careful dance that must be had,” Roth says. “Being more surgical with the tariffs, I think, would potentially accomplish more of what is being at least told to us and me, as sort of somebody who’s going through the economics of what’s happening and worrying about this happening and that happening, seems like it might drive a better outcome in a very difficult and challenging situation than just kind of this big smattering across the board.”

Roth is also a small-business advocate, which causes her even more concern regarding the tariffs.

“I worry about small businesses as well that don’t have sort of the options that are available to some of these bigger companies,” she says.

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Did China’s DeepSeek NUKE the American AI industry?



Nvidia shares plummeted by 18% on Monday, losing $590 billion in market cap — the largest in market history — after the release of China’s new AI model, DeepSeek.

“That led to panic, especially in the tech part of the stock market in the AI bubble. They’re worried that it might start to pop,” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” tells investment banker and author of “MoneyGPT” James Rickards and co-host Matthew Peterson.

“What’s interesting, the Chinese DeepSeek is not necessarily better than the artificial intelligence and GPT-type applications that we have in the United States, but it is a lot faster, and that’s the key,” Rickards explains.

“The companies that suffered, Nvidia in particular, are hardware manufacturers. If you can do the same work faster and with a lot fewer chips, obviously that’s going to hurt the chip manufacturers like Nvidia,” he adds.


However, Rickards notes that “the Chinese have a long reputation of cheating in technology, stealing intellectual property.”

“Is this thing really just as good, but much, much faster? Maybe only using 10% of the power and the processing power that we use, or were they able to cheat in the training set?” he asks. “The training set is all the material that the large language models and the artificial intelligence algorithms sort of read in order to learn how to answer questions and basically interact with humans.”

“We need to learn more about it. It is a dramatic breakthrough. I don’t want to say that the Chinese did cheat, I don’t know that for a fact. I do know, they’ve done that in other cases, so I think we need to learn more,” he adds.

Peterson believes this was “timed in an interesting way,” as it was right after Trump came into office.

“Right, I definitely expect volatility in the U.S. stock markets now,” Rickards says, though he notes the timing means more for China.

“As far as China’s concerned, their economy is in deep trouble, and there was one of their prominent economic commentators recently who wasn’t arrested, but he was told to shut up basically because he was speaking candidly about their GDP,” he explains, adding that China might even be “in a slight recession.”

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CNN host ADMITS the economy gives Trump a ‘HUGE edge over Harris’



Election day is less than two months away, and liberals are starting to get nervous.

While CNN host Kate Bolduan notes that Kamala Harris has “an eye-popping lead over Trump among women,” Donald Trump has “a huge edge over Harris when it comes to the economy.”

And according to CNN’s David Chalian, the race is closer than the left had hoped.

Harris is leading outside the margin of error in the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan while Trump is leading outside the margin of error in Arizona. The numbers are too close to call in Georgia, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.

“This shows that the candidates have multiple paths to 270, but that this is indeed a tossup race,” Chalian tells Bolduan.

However, Harris has lost support with black voters in places like Pennsylvania, where 92% of black voters went for Biden in the 2020 election. Now, 84% are polling for Harris.

“There’s still room here for Harris to grow and consolidate the black vote, which is going to be necessary if she is going to win in places like Georgia and Pennsylvania,” Chalian explains.

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” is concerned, yet hopeful.

“Something interesting is brewing here,” he says. “Trump needs a major win, not a little win.”

“Even if he won by a little, they’ll somehow make it seem like he didn’t win,” he continues. “Look, anything can happen in 60 days. Pandemic nine, the zombie invasion, Russia, Russia, Russia."

"Anything can happen, of course," he continues, noting that it's amazing that the polls are "so freaking close after the Trump indictments and the sham trials and everything they’ve done to him.”


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