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America’s high school graduating class is projected to shrink 13%. Colleges are already feeling the squeeze

Rising costs and steep tuition discounts are squeezing college budgets just as the pool of prospective students begins to shrink.

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Tatiana Sataua

Bitcoin is back—and so is Michael Saylor’s Strategy, which made its first buy in two months

The company’s return to buying follows a summer downturn spent raising cash and selling Bitcoin.

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Camila Grigera Naón

PBR promises thieves who return 40,000 pounds of stolen beer by next Tuesday ‘no questions asked.’ That won’t stop California prosecutors

That's roughly 34,000 cans of beer worth about $70,000, according to police.

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Catherina Gioino

Young Kalshi users have traded an estimated $3.9B on sports and parlay-type contracts this year, exposing a loophole that lets them bet before age 21

Critics warn prediction markets let 18-year-olds make sports wagers while bypassing state betting age limits.

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

We’re living in the ‘G-shaped economy’—where boomers control $90 trillion, and everyone else waits

"The concentration of wealth among older generations suggests that consumer spending is increasingly being supported by the spending of accumulated...

yesterday 1

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Jason Ma

Nissan and Honda ink deal to boost competitiveness with ‘faster development cycles’ in vehicle software

Under the deal, Nissan, based in the port city of Yokohama, and Tokyo-based Honda will share standardized parts in “core ECUs,” as well as software.

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The Associated Press

Gas topped $4 daily in August for the first time. New U.S. strikes on Iran are sending oil prices even higher again

Brent crude jumped more than 3% after U.S. forces struck Iranian rocket launchers near the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for global oil shipments.

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Damian J. Troise

UAE intercepts Iranian drone over its waters in ‘dangerous escalation’ from Iran war—and threatens responding ‘decisively to aggressors’

Trump has stressed last week that he is "not in a hurry" to get Iran back to the negotiating table.

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The Associated Press

Ray Dalio was so broke early in his career he had to borrow $4,000 from his dad—and learned 2 lessons that set him on the road to billionaire status

“Nobody does everything perfectly, not even Warren Buffett,” Dalio told David Rubenstein in conversation at the 92nd Street Y.

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Nick Lichtenberg

X’s AI tool Grok now allows users to buy or lend crypto with MoonPay integration

The new tool also lets users move beyond crypto, with services such as restaurant reservations and flight bookings.

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Camila Grigera Naón

The end of the driver’s license: Uber exec calls car ownership ‘the most inefficient asset’ and says no one will need one in 15 to 20 years

Uber president and COO Andrew Macdonald predicts that in two decades, most people will get around by bike, scooter, public transit, or autonomous...

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Preston Fore

Japan doubled defense spending to counter China. Now it wants AI, underwater attack drones and government-owned weapons factories

Japan now aims to transform its defense capacity and is also adapting to Ukraine's style of warfare with drones

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Mia Osmonbekov

‘Heaven help us’: One dead and 15 missing after flash flood in Grand Canyon—with more flooding forecast

Torrents of water wiped out footbridges, marking a major blow to an effort to modernize the pipeline that serves roughly 1,600 residents of Grand...

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The Associated Press

Cash-strapped colleges are draining their endowments to survive

Nearly 200 private colleges borrowed from restricted endowments last year as the enrollment crisis emptied their classrooms and coffers

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Bloomberg

The tropical nation of Palau has no traffic lights and just 18,000 people—and it’s now ground zero for a U.S.-China standoff

Small island states command strategic waters, ports and potential seabed minerals, giving them leverage in the contest for Pacific influence

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The Associated Press

Nearly 1,000 people are missing in Nepal’s floods, and hundreds more are trapped in hydropower tunnels as flood knocks 10% of power capacity offline

The disaster damaged hydropower projects across Nepal, forcing officials to confront the growing risks of rebuilding in vulnerable Himalayan valleys.

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Victoria Milko

China’s AI-fueled IPO boom hits $54 billion this year, with chipmakers and Shein’s $1.7 billion IPO

Hong Kong and Shanghai captured 21% of global new-share proceeds as China’s AI companies abandoned Wall Street for home

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The Associated Press

Workers are flooding this ex-McKinsey consultant with bad-boss horror stories. He says they reveal a growing trust problem for HR

A creator who posts bad-manager stories explains the documentation conversation that would keep employees engaged with HR.

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Kristin Stoller

The Fed is watching AI token prices. Here’s why CFOs should, too

Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh flagged token prices as a window into AI's economics.

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Sheryl Estrada

Current price of oil as of August 31, 2026

When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.

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Joseph Hostetler

‘Just really shocking’: One of America’s top Social Security advisors is unsettled by how many people are withdrawing early

Martha Shedden says panic over the program's finances is pushing clients into early claiming decisions they'll regret. She also says: don't blame...

yesterday 1

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Nick Lichtenberg

Target’s missteps have alienated consumers and shaken investors. Executive Chair Brian Cornell should step down

Target’s annual meeting results should send a clear message to the Board that investors are hungry for fresh leadership to help the company regain...

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Tejal Patel

Stablecoins are crypto’s killer app—but no one can agree on who will use them

Airwallex is the latest giant company to plow into stablecoins—even as the business case for them is still emerging.

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Jeff John Roberts

I’m working with Venezuela to kill its inflation. Trump’s secret oil deal with Delcy Rodriguez is illegitimate — and unhelpful

If you have to wait 558 years to produce and sell a barrel of oil, that barrel is virtually worthless in today's dollars.

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Steve H. Hanke

Business has lost the trust of a generation. I hear about it at my dinner table

A colleague told me, half-terrified, that her son's becoming a full-blown socialist. Our kids have been taking notes on the new (broken) social...

yesterday 1

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Lori Janke

ADP CEO: the real conversation on jobs and AI is how do we prepare for what comes next?

The organizations that have a clear understanding of what the data tells us – that the workforce is shifting, not shrinking – will be the ones...

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Maria Black

How long should a CEO get to turn around a struggling company?

Nike’s Elliott Hill is approaching the end of his second year in the corner office.

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Ruth Umoh

Why a 1963 bank case should not decide the Paramount/Warner deal

In United States v. Philadelphia National Bank, the Supreme Court blocked two banks from merging at a time when the market was simple to measure.

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Shubha Ghosh

Trump threatens to blow Kharg Island ‘to smithereens’ as U.S. and Iran trade fresh strikes in the Gulf, driving up the price of oil

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

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Jim Edwards

GXO CEO: Better robot hands, not Olympic-level humanoids, are what businesses really need

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Diane Brady

Airwallex president Lucy Liu on the company’s plans to be ‘IPO-ready’

The company, which claims to have over $1 billion in annualized run rate revenue, once talked about having a U.S. IPO in 2026.

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Nicholas Gordon

I’m the ‘dean of innovation’ and I know that nobody can agree what ‘innovation’ actually means

Your company doesn’t have an innovation problem, says Michigan Ross professor Jeff DeGraff. It Has a Language Problem.

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Jeff Degraff

Temu spent up to $962 million on ads that helped finance an army of fake creators on Meta platforms, research claims

DEK: Among the top 100 influencers collaborating with Temu, about 73 are fake, ORL researcher Vendula Prokůpková says.

yesterday 10

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Jim Edwards

Why the head of Taiwan’s stock exchange wants you to look past TSMC—and embrace the ‘technology island’

Taiwan overtook India to become the world’s fifth-largest stock market in May, and yet two-fifths of that value comes from TSMC.

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Nicholas Gordon

Women only accounted for 26% of hires in jobs with AI skills—and they could be missing out on a $100K salary difference

Women are up against a “triple penalty” when it comes to landing high-level lucrative AI roles, new LinkedIn data shows.

yesterday 10

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Emma Burleigh

31-year-old millionaire has zero sympathy for unemployed Gen Z’s ‘excuses’—he says ‘it is scarily easy’ to build a business and get rich right now

As AI kills entry-level jobs, multimillionaire Timothy Armoo has a blunt message for unemployed Gen Zers: stop making excuses and start building.

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Orianna Rosa Royle

‘We’re facing a double whammy’: America’s hottest tinned fish snack is shrinking by nearly half thanks to climate change and war in Iran

Sardine landings in Morocco, the world's top supplier, have fallen nearly 46% as warming waters and war-driven fuel costs squeeze the fleet.

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Catherina Gioino

‘Singles have become their own private investigators’: Daters are using LinkedIn to screen matches

LinkedIn isn’t a dating app, but a survey of U.S. workers found that about one in four consider using the platform for romance “fair game.”

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Sarah Glodek

This Gen Xer spent 28 years in a cubicle and never made more than $70,000. At 59, she made $500,000 in the creator economy

Some creators are finding their age can be an advantage as brands try to reach older consumers.

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Tatiana Sataua

Shein CEO’s wealth slumps $15 billion after whittled-down IPO

Shein is set to go public in Hong Kong on Tuesday at just over a quarter of the $100 billion it was worth in 2022.

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Dave Sebastian

The official jobless rate is so low the Fed thinks the economy is at full employment. But a gauge of the ‘functionally unemployed’ keeps climbing

"If this continues, it would suggest the labor market is losing strength despite what we may see in the headline unemployment numbers."

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Jason Ma

SpaceX launches NASA’s newest crown-jewel telescope, which will look for ‘the weird, the rare and the unusual’ — including dark matter and energy

“It’s going to find thousands of supernovae, tens of thousands of planets, billions of galaxies and tens of billions of stars.”

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Marcia Dunn

‘I think they’re doing it to cling to power’ — Venezuelans bash their government’s deal handing over vast oil reserves to the U.S.

Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, described the deal as a step toward economic recovery that will modernize the country’s oil industry.

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Collin Binkley

Google Maps changes Lake Ontario label to Lake America in U.S.

The decision was prompted by a change in the official US government geographic naming system, the company said.

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Rachel Cohrs Zhang

World mostly shrugs off Bessent’s ‘D-Day’ Iran sanctions threat

Iranian bank branches remained open in Dubai. Commercial flights also continued between Iran and Turkey as well as Iran and the United Arab Emirates.

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Yash Roy

Trump urges FCC to probe media polling, punish NBC moderator

The president also lashed out at Kristen Welker, the moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, for saying his endorsements of Republican candidates in...

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Jeff Mason

It’s not just math and reading. Classroom devices deprive kids of skills needed in the AI future and how to be ‘fully human,’ education experts say

"Children don’t need school to become more like the digital world. They are already immersed in that world for much of the time outside school hours."

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Jason Ma

Battle for Hormuz: U.S. forces take first military action against Iran in a month, striking rocket launchers being used to deploy sea mines

The U.S. military last week completed clearing sea mines from the strait’s international shipping routes.

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Konstantin Toropin

Iran’s president admits ‘we have many problems’ and missiles ‘are of no use’ as the U.S. chokes its economy while weakening Tehran’s grip on Hormuz

"People are on the edge now; if I put more pressure on them, they might fall off the edge. We have to be careful that no one falls off."

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Jason Ma

Warner Bros. axed ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ three years ago to take a tax write off. But it’s finally in theaters after a public outcry—and a box office hit

The Looney Tunes feature film that was given a new lease on life by Ketchup Entertainment and debuted with an estimated $15.5 million in ticket sales...

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Jake Coyle