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Eva Roytburg

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Boom or bust? The case for and against panicking about 5% yields

The bond market is flashing a warning, but stocks aren’t listening.

25.09.2026 10

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The U.S. and China are quietly talking AI guardrails—even as Trump publicly rejects them

The U.S. and China just held their first AI dialogue, as Beijing courts the rest of the world with open-source AI.

24.09.2026 10

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Trump calls AI oversight a ‘globalist scheme’ as Amodei and Altman head to the UN to ask for it

The clash comes days before Trump meets Xi Jinping in New York.

23.09.2026 10

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‘We believe in college’: inside Andreessen Horowitz’s $42m unaccredited academy that will charge Harvard prices without degrees

Gagan Biyani talked to Fortune about the academy that won't charge tuition for its first class. "We will see over time how students will finance...

22.09.2026 10

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‘A huge problem’: Trump has traded more stocks than all of Congress combined. A Bush-era ethics lawyer explains why you should worry

The White House says the president's 28,700 trades are automated and hands-off.

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Kevin Warsh, an angry Trump and Jerome Powell Déjà vu: how history is repeating itself

The S&P 500 fell 1% and the Dow lost 1.7% as the Fed chair said rates weren't restrictive before Wednesday's hike.

17.09.2026 10

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Warsh says AI’s hyperscalers are part of why your borrowing costs are rising: ‘The competition for capital is real’

Hyperscalers issued $121 billion in bonds last year and are on pace for far more in 2026. Warsh says that's showing up in Treasury yields.

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Stocks slide toward lowest level since July after Warsh’s hawkish press conference

The S&P 500 fell 1% and the Dow lost 1.7% as the Fed chair said rates weren't restrictive before Wednesday's hike.

16.09.2026 10

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Hot or not? The economy’s fate rests on Kevin Warsh’s answer to one key question

Oil near $110, 5% Treasury yields, an AI investment boom and stubborn inflation have revived a question the Fed hasn’t faced in years: Is America...

16.09.2026 10

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Trump tells Americans not to ‘kill the golden goose’ rejecting voters’ turn against AI and data centers

Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon are uniting against AI just as Trump, the other main character from the 2016 era in politics, stands for acceleration.

14.09.2026 9

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Wall Street’s AI doomsday trade is here: chipmakers sink while hyperscalers gain

Nvidia fell more than 3% while Meta, Microsoft and Alphabet rose, as investors begin to separate the companies that need endless AI capex from those...

14.09.2026 9

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One of X’s most notorious ragebaiters explains how the outrage business earned him $80,000—and why he’ll keep posting even as the creator model shifts

A typical month posting for Lefkowitz has paid between $3,000 and $10,000 from X.

13.09.2026 90

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Wall Street thought the Powell hike was over. Now Kevin Warsh has his ‘back against the wall’

Hotter inflation, above $100 oil and a 10-year Treasury yield flirting with 5% have put another round of rate hikes back on the table.

11.09.2026 8

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Inflation won’t die. Now the bond market is daring the Fed to do something about it

The 10-year Treasury yield is nearing 5% as oil, tariffs and sticky service prices raise fears that Kevin Warsh may have to restart the rate-hiking...

10.09.2026 10

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AGI is here, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has declared. Here’s why the market doesn’t care

If AI were really about to unleash the explosive growth its boosters predict, economists say it should show up somewhere surprising: real interest...

09.09.2026 50

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Who runs the labor market? Women accounted for 98% of U.S. job gains in August

The economy added 162,000 jobs, nearly triple forecasts, but the gains were unusually concentrated among women

04.09.2026 10

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‘I don’t think there’s a floor’: Workers’ share of America’s income is at a record low before the AI boom even begins

EY-Parthenon chief economist Gregory Daco says that the economy’s surprising productivity gains so far predate AI.

04.09.2026 50

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The bond market is crashing Trump’s midterm campaign

George Washington University’s Stephen Kaplan says the bond market is giving Washington a “check."

03.09.2026 10

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This matchmaker went viral when her $35,000 client took a date to a soft pretzel restaurant—but he wasn’t subject to the ‘bald tax’ or the ‘short tax’

Because of a fixation on tall men, some shorter or bald men have to pay this viral matchmaker a tax because it involves more work on her behalf.

13.08.2026 20

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Nvidia found a new way to keep the AI boom funded: your retirement money

A $500 billion Wall Street push could route insurance and pension capital into GPU-backed infrastructure as Big Tech leans harder on debt.

12.08.2026 10

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Inflation came in perfectly on forecast. Almost everything underneath it is a ‘mess’ as wages struggle to keep up

July CPI offered some welcome relief, but the report masks stubborn rent increases and wages that can barely keep up.

12.08.2026 10

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How Scott Bessent used financial engineering to finance the $2 trillion deficit while leaving it untouched—and created a $1.45 trillion shortfall

The alarm is coming from inside the house. The Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee says the borrowing math no longer adds up.

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The deportation economy is backfiring on American workers, top economist warns

Diane Swonk says July’s bizarre jobs report is the first data from the deportation economy: shrinking payrolls and a shrinking workforce.

07.08.2026 20

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How SpaceX’s most-feared trading day turned into a 6% rally

"These are not people waiting to get their first dollar back," a former SpaceX employee told Fortune. "We've had chances over the past 10 years."

07.08.2026 20

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A billion SpaceX shares unlock Thursday. Wall Street isn’t worried: ‘You never bet against Elon’

Four index providers rushed SpaceX into millions of 401(k)s within 25 days of listing. D.A. Davidson’s Gil Luria sees how Musk already knows how...

05.08.2026 20

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The power couple of AI is getting married in Carmel, days after groom Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund nearly blew up

Leopold Aschenbrenner sold the bulk of his firm, Situational Awareness, to Citadel at a discount, then offered investors one-on-one calls during his...

31.07.2026 10

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‘I’m just stuck’: Meet the former OpenAI researcher sitting on $700K of equity that he says is overvalued

Andrew Ho worked at OpenAI for eight months but said he had to leave after realizing how tremendously overvalued the AI labs are. And he doesn’t...

30.07.2026 10

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Meta stock drops 10% as free cash flow gets crushed—and Zuckerberg hints at launching cloud business with few details

Meta's quarterly results showcased the strength of its core social media business, as well as the gap in its business model in the AI arm's race.

29.07.2026 20

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Wall Street is panicking over Kevin Warsh’s patience

The Dow fell over 2% after the conference.

29.07.2026 20

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‘A lot of panic around the AI investment’: How a chip slump is driving the Nasdaq toward correction

It’s a chip panic that “appears to be indiscriminate,” analysts say.

28.07.2026 20

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The U.S. government invested $27 billion in corporate stakes. Good luck finding them

The Trump administration's equity stakes—from Intel to quantum startups—appear in no budget document and are subject to no watchdog.

26.07.2026 40

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AI is forcing Big Tech to do something it’s never done: Spend more than it earns, and Wall Street hates it

The Mag7 had its worst day Thursday since the tariff-driven selloff last April.

23.07.2026 20

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The Trump administration is revamping the era of the ‘gentleman scientist.’ It’ll cost $200 billion

Can AI be the partner Darwin always dreamed of?

23.07.2026 20

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Anthropic and SpaceX just handed Google the biggest profit quarter in company history—on paper

A $99 billion markup on stakes in Anthropic and SpaceX delivered more than two-thirds of Alphabet's stunning $112 billion profit.

22.07.2026 20

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Billionaire Mike Bloomberg warns Trump’s AI ownership plan would make ‘George Orwell blush’

"Somewhere, Karl Marx is smiling," the media company founder wrote in an op-ed, calling current markets a "smoke-filled backroom."

21.07.2026 10

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Mathematicians grapple with a ‘very rapid and very unsettling change’ as AI cracks yet another century-old problem

Anthropic's Levant Alpöge, a former Harvard valedictorian, used Claude's Fable 5 to find something that mathematicians have failed to since 1939.

21.07.2026 60

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Nobel laureate economist warns AI jobs apocalypse fears could become a self-fulfilling prophesy

"When millions of people make millions and millions of decisions based upon negative expectations, there is a risk that fear can actually help birth...

27.06.2026 20

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OpenAI agrees to stagger rollout of its most powerful model to only Trump-approved customers

It is the second time in a month that a frontier lab’s most powerful model has been held back from general release over fears about cyber...

26.06.2026 20

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The bond market knows something about the $39 trillion national debt that Washington doesn’t

A more hawkish Fed could be bad news for the record debt. The bond market decided to ignore it.

25.06.2026 50

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A Saints legend is selling fans a piece of professional sports for $500

Marques Colston's Champion Fund opens an owners-only world to anyone with a few hundred bucks. The catch: 5.75% in annual fees.

20.06.2026 40

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Kevin Warsh showed that he’s decisively not Trump’s ‘sock puppet’—and markets didn’t like it

"That was hawkish Kevin talking," according to the "Fed whisperer," Jon Hilsenrath.

17.06.2026 20

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A 21-year-old cofounder’s sales pitch to clients begs them to question the company’s results: ‘Do not trust us. Do not trust our model’

Ned Koh, the founder and president of Aaru, said the AI startup’s ability to predict outcomes better than human-led survey data speaks for itself.

17.06.2026 30

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SpaceX just surpassed Amazon’s market cap, overtaking the 31-year-old company on day three of public trading

Elon Musk has made more money today than Warren Buffett has made in his entire career.

16.06.2026 20

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Anthropic’s IPO pitch has a new problem: the government can shut it down

"Heck yeah there's regulatory risk," said David Linthicum, a longtime cloud analyst.

16.06.2026 20

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Meet Gwynne Shotwell, the engineer-turned-COO who runs SpaceX in platform heels and is now worth over $2 billion

"I need more data than Elon does to make a decision," Gwynn Shotwell once said.

15.06.2026 40

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Astronaut costumes, teenage crypto millionaires, and a $300 million bet: Scenes from the SpaceX IPO

From a prop trader who bet “a car” to an early investor sitting on $300 million, the sidewalk outside the Nasdaq represented everyone in the AI...

12.06.2026 20

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Bank of America told investors to ‘take profits.’ Then the Nasdaq fell 7%

Days before the worst chip rout since 2020, BofA warned that seven warning lights were flashing.

11.06.2026 20

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Inflation is roaring back globally, 2022 style. The Iran war is only half the problem

Europe, China and the U.S. are straining to meet the demands of the AI boom

11.06.2026 20

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Gates testifies on Epstein: previous Fortune investigation reveals payments to his ex-girlfriend, $1M Microsoft deal

Bill Gates said Wednesday that he made a “grave error in judgment” by meeting with Jeffrey Epstein.

10.06.2026 20

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Inflation is back above 4% for the first time since 2023—but Kevin Warsh might catch a break

Core inflation stayed tame, easing hawkish worries at the Fed.

10.06.2026 30

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