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You should pick your credit card perks like Warren Buffett picks his stocks, TD Bank exec says

The billionaire’s philosophy for preaching the ways of compound interest might also apply to how many credit cards you have in your wallet.

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Catherina Gioino

Anthropic’s potential $2 trillion IPO could turn staff into millionaires—but the AI firm is asking candidates what they’d do if stock fell to zero

With an IPO looming, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei—who has a net worth of $13.6 billion—has reportedly expressed concerns that AI workers are...

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Preston Fore

Gen X feels worse about the economy than Gen Z and millennials—and more than 70% fear running out of money more than death

The generations who were supposed to have it figured out are the ones panicking about money.

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Sasha Rogelberg

Michael Dell turned $1,000 and a college dorm room into a $302 billion company. His advice to founders seeking validation: ‘Don’t go ask’

Before he built a tech empire, Dell was a teenager selling newspaper subscriptions to newlyweds he tracked down through marriage records. He says the...

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Sydney Lake

Nebex CEO: NASA wants a commercial space economy. Here’s how it can enable one

NASA has the leverage to build a real space market.

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Tejpaul Bhatia

‘The best thing that you can do for your career is to make yourself redundant’: Inside Stellantis’ AI push after the ‘starting gun went off’

That’s the advice of Stellantis’ CTO, who plans to hire hundreds more anyway. AI is shrinking weeks into days, but it can't tell you what car to make.

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Nick Lichtenberg

Voters usually decide one or two income or wealth tax measures a year. This midterm season, there are nine

Colorado, Washington and Cook County voters will also weigh taxes on top earners, while other states move to make taxes harder to raise.

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Catherina Gioino

Want to increase voter turnout? Start with the workplace

Employers have huge sway over whether workers vote.

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Tom Florsheim Jr

Hackers pushed freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets to 122 degrees. Now the Pentagon is asking whether the same thing hit U.S. military bases

More than half a dozen U.S. military commissaries experienced refrigeration failure in August, and cybersecurity experts suspect a possible...

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Sasha Rogelberg

RAND and USC health researchers: Even big self-insured companies can’t rein in health costs

Price transparency won’t fix employers’ health costs.

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Christine Buttorff

Randi Weingarten: the fastest fix for the affordability crisis is a working-class tax cut

Elect a Congress that will put cash back in wallets.

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Randi Weingarten

Meet a 38-year-old father rejecting a Trump account for his daughter: ‘I’ll put $1,000 of my own money in an account before I do that’

“When money is psychologically tainted, we often avoid it,” University of Michigan professor Scott Rick told Fortune.

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Tatiana Sataua

While Americans turn against data centers, Brazil offers tax breaks and cheap power, representing a potential ‘release valve’ for U.S. constraints

The government is cutting taxes on data center equipment as Google, Amazon and Microsoft expand in a country already hungry for AI services.

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Mia Osmonbekov

Why Wendy’s is losing the burger wars—and is now a takeover target for Nelson Peltz

Its new CEO says Wendy's has let quality slip and now it has fallen behind Burger King to No. 3 in the burger wars.

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Phil Wahba

If California undid its ‘original sin’ and matched Texas on taxing property, it would raise more revenue than the billionaire tax, economists say

"It is simply not possible to fund the state’s needs by leaning on a few hundred people, as politically appealing as that may be."

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Jason Ma

China sees the yuan vs. dollar rivalry like Pepsi vs. Coke, expert says — ‘never the market leader, but serviceable in a pinch’

"Without a far larger pool of renminbi assets that foreigners can freely buy and sell, the renminbi cannot come close to replacing the dollar."

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Jason Ma

AI boom hits a wall on Wall Street as OpenAI cuts fundraising target while Meta gets a credit warning over its cash flow, spending and monetization

S&P Global cut its outlook on Meta to "negative" from "stable" late Friday.

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Jason Ma

Mark Zuckerberg’s $170 million Miami mansion is just one piece of his sprawling real estate empire that includes a 196-year-old castle

The Meta CEO has spent years accumulating luxury properties, including a secretive ranch with an underground shelter, an Irish castle, and a Lake...

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

U.S workers just took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947—and the lowest ever recorded

American workers aren’t just getting the smallest share of GDP since records began. Their share of employment is shrinking and shrinking

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Sasha Rogelberg

Jeff Bezos once gave Eva Longoria and the admiral behind Osama bin Laden’s capture $100 million—but she says you don’t need wealth to give back

Jeff Bezos gave Eva Longoria $50 million for philanthropy. Two years on, she says the biggest myth is that you need to be rich to give back.

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Orianna Rosa Royle

The ex-CEO of the agency behind ‘Jerry Maguire’ says NIL is still the Wild West—and parents are part of the problem

College athletes became paid players and brand spokespeople almost overnight. Meltzer argues they still lack a framework and trustworthy advocates,...

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Robert Gray

EqualAI CEO: Your AI assistant is acting in your name. Who signed off?

AI agents need permission rules before they act.

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Miriam Vogel

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon says the best advice he ever got came from his grandmother in his 20s: ‘Don’t be in a hurry’

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon hits the gym before 7 a.m. and lives by his calendar—but says the secret to a long career is patience

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Heather Occhino

We’re not in a cost-of-living crisis — yet

The U.S. appears to stand at the edge of a crisis. But it is under financial pressure, no doubt.

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Anthony Fox

Morgan Stanley’s Ellen Zentner: Women are reshaping the economy. Markets haven’t caught up

Women stand to inherit trillions. Few firms are ready.

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Ellen Zentner

ASML’s CEO is putting his paycheck on the line for employee morale. It could help retain talent that’s nearly impossible to replace

After a year of layoffs and a drop in morale, Christophe Fouquet is betting that giving employees a say in what leaders earn will help ASML keep...

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Muskaan Arshad

Fears over $828 billion AI capex spending spree help erase $1 trillion in market value

Five tech giants are set to spend as much as $828 billion this year on infrastructure as the AI race eats into cash flow and rattles Wall Street.

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

The $13 billion startup racing to close America’s hypersonic gap

Castelion is racing to give the U.S. the affordable hypersonic missile it doesn’t yet have.

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Allie Garfinkle

From Karl Marx’s vampire to Warren Buffett’s moat, the crumbling gothic castle has been capitalism’s favorite metaphor for 250 years

Jamie Dimon’s “fortress” and Warren Buffett’s “moat” come from the same place as Dracula’s castle, and this week AI put both to the test.

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Nick Lichtenberg

Our AI agent experience: we scrapped the multiple $60,000 salary marketing jobs and hired one person at a far higher salary

Don't ration your employees' AI use. Overspending is recoverable next quarter, but being left behind isn't.

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Joe Mohen

Ben & Jerry’s CEO: democracy is on the ballot, and business must show up

No business thrives where democracy doesn’t.

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Jochanan Senf

Welcome to the school where Gen Z learns philanthropy as billionaire wealth explodes—with a 100% job placement rate

Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy is the only college in the U.S. where students can strictly study the art of giving—and...

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Preston Fore

This top data scientist’s (non-AI) model finds Republicans have just one chance in six of holding Senate

Northwestern University professor Thomas Miller 'Nowcast' incorporates data from betting markets along with economic and financial models to project...

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Shawn Tully

Chevron speeds ahead in Venezuela while Exxon urges caution with a ‘little pinch of salt’

ExxonMobil emphasizes the need for lots of additional changes in Venezuela before making any financial plunge.

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Jordan Blum

How Southeast Asia can realize its commercial promise amid geopolitical rivalry

Countries have a shared interest in defending international law—even when doing so may create friction with the country violating it.

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Lynn Kuok

Intel plunged 28.6% for its worst drop since 1974 — and the AI sell-off gave the S&P 500 its worst day since June

A drop of 4.2% for Nvidia, the chip company that became the poster child of the AI frenzy, was the heaviest force pulling the S&P 500 downward.

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Stan Choe

Trump posted that a public D.C. golf course would close for 15 months — his own officials can’t confirm it and a judge is opening a ‘formal inquiry’

The Justice Department filed notice Wednesday night that the plans were real.

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Gary Fields

Italy’s inflation hits 5.4%, outpacing the U.S. and China, as a farmers’ revolt empties shelves of pasta and mozzarella

Blockades over diesel costs halted mozzarella and pasta production in the south. Now farmers are joining a national strike.

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Catherina Gioino

Canada expects to seal a deal in June to become the EU’s first ‘associate member’ — ‘everything short of full EU membership’

Trump has suggested Canada’s proposed EU arrangement could be a “hostile act” and threatened tariffs on Europe if he considered it unfriendly.

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Rob Gillies

In Brooklyn, a phone-free room of Democrats agreed a blue wave is coming — and debated the data-center identity crisis

At a phone-free Newsreel event in Brooklyn's "Commie Corridor" just days before the midterms, the talk kept coming back to who gets rich off AI.

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Nick Lichtenberg

Florida has 162 measles cases reported and no dashboard — so it’s considering dropping 4 school vaccine requirements

Only 88.9% of Florida kindergartners got the MMR vaccine in the 2025-26 school year, below the 95% threshold needed for herd immunity.

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Katrine L. Wallace

Schools draw a record 22,687 civil rights complaints as DOJ allocates about 40 lawyers to handle

Since January 2025, the administration has closed seven of OCR’s 12 regional offices, and resolution agreements fell to less than 1% of pending cases.

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Bridget Joyce

Tesla and 113 other companies paid no current federal income tax, but they still aren’t the biggest threats to the federal deficit, think tank warns

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found more than 700 profitable companies paid less than half of the 21% statutory corporate tax rate,...

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Sasha Rogelberg

Greenland opens a new international airport to lure tourists and diversify its economy as it eyes independence from Denmark

Ilulissat, known as the “City of Icebergs,” sits along the island's western coast and is home to some 5,000 people.

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James Brooks

Waymo’s backers valued it at $126 billion. The Alphabet division that houses it brought in $372 million last quarter—and lost $2.05 billion

Other Bets lost $5.50 for every $1 of revenue in Q3 2026.

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Joshua Hong

Exxon and Chevron report massive profits after Trump brags U.S. energy companies are ‘making a freaking fortune’ just before midterms

Wars and geopolitical risks prove profitable although Big Oil eyes more long-term certainty.

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Jordan Blum

Call it ‘cringe fascism’: Hegseth wants male troops 30 and older tested for low testosterone

The Pentagon said the checks would include symptoms such as “loss of spontaneous morning erections” and “diminished energy and physical performance.”

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Matthew N. Hannah

Consumer sentiment is lower now than when inflation peaked at 9.1% — and the richest 10% of Americans account for half of consumer spending

A Pew survey in early October found 84% of registered voters said the economy was very important to their vote, the least polarizing issue it asked...

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Erin Kay Lockwood

U.S. scraps G20’s opening photo after Europeans balk at posing with Russia’s Lavrov

“It seems politically boneheaded to invite him,” said Kelly, who now teaches international relations and diplomacy at Northwestern University...

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Matthew Lee

An AI slowdown that takes some air out of the exuberance could actually extend the boom, Wall Street veteran says

"However, we view these constraints as healthy for the durability of the AI boom!"

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Jason Ma