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AI isn’t the reason you got laid off (or not hired), top staffing agency says. You don’t have the right skills

The typical company expects to hire eight workers in the first quarter of 2026, ManpowerGroup's new survey finds.

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Nick Lichtenberg

HBR: only 6% of companies fully trust AI agents to handle core business processes

AI agents are at the "edge," not the core of business, and without good change management, corporates risk a "garbage in, garbage out" scenario.

yesterday 0

Nick Lichtenberg

Paramount rips Warner’s sale ‘process’ as it reveals 2-year-long pursuit, escalating bids before going hostile

Warner "did not provide a single markup of a single transaction document" or engage in any back-and-forth negotiation for months, its jilted suitor...

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Nick Lichtenberg

Netflix CEO brushes aside Paramount’s ‘entirely expected’ hostile bid, ‘super confident’ of closing deal with Warner Bros. Discovery

The Netflix Co-CEO also said he's talked with the president "many times" since the election and he'll be good to movie theaters once he’s running a...

yesterday 3

Nick Lichtenberg

The U.S. has over 900 billionaires and their wealth soared by 18% to $6.9 trillion this year, UBS says

The U.S. alone has nearly a third (31.7%) of the world's billionaire population, according to UBS Global Wealth Management.

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Nick Lichtenberg

Next shoe in Netflix-WBD saga drops as Paramount launches hostile bid worth $30 per share, all-cash

Over the weekend, President Trump voiced concern over the combined market share of Netflix and Warner Bros.

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Nick Lichtenberg

Inside the Fortune 500 CEO pressure cooker: surviving is harder than ever and requires an ‘odd combination’ of traits

Mark Thompson is a top CEO coach and Byron Loflin is Nasdaq's in-house board whisperer. They told Fortune about joining forces for "CEO Ready."

sunday 4

Nick Lichtenberg

‘This is a bad idea made worse’: Senate Dems’ plan to fix Obamacare premiums adds nearly $300 billion to deficit, CRFB says

The plan to protect Obamacare would cost nearly $550 billion over 10 years if it were made permanent, the budget watchdog said.

06.12.2025 7

Nick Lichtenberg

Top analyst says Netflix’s $72 billion bet on Warner Bros. isn’t about the ‘Death of Hollywood’ at all. It’s really about Google

"If I were Netflix," S&P Global's Melissa Otto told Fortune, "I would want to build a moat around my business."

06.12.2025 1

Nick Lichtenberg

Netflix’s bombshell deal to buy Warner Bros. brings Batman and Harry Potter to the big red streamer and infuriates theater owners and the Ellisons

Just days before Netflix emerged as the highest bidder, Paramount tore into the "myopic process" that had become "tainted."

05.12.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

Tariffs and the $38 trillion national debt: Kevin Hassett sees ’big reductions’ in deficit while Scott Bessent sees a ‘shrinking ice cube’

The favorite to become Fed chair says tariffs are an important part of Trump’s economic policy and behind “a lot of the revenue coming into the...

05.12.2025 30

Nick Lichtenberg

America, meet your alienated youth: ‘Gold standard’ Harvard survey reveals Gen Z’s anxiety and distrust, defined by economic insecurity

The Harvard Youth Poll pulls back the curtain to reveal a generation defined by widespread distrust in the economy.

05.12.2025 6

Nick Lichtenberg

Bill Gates decries ‘significant reversal in child deaths’ as nearly 5 million kids will die before they turn 5 this year

The Gates Foundation rings the alarm on the century's first reversal in progress to save the worlds poorest children, following cuts to international...

04.12.2025 3

Nick Lichtenberg

Scott Bessent calls the Giving Pledge well-intentioned but ‘very amorphous,’ growing from ‘a panic among the billionaire class’

“When you see that people have a stake in the system, they don’t want to bring the system down,” the Treasury secretary argued at the DealBook Summit.

04.12.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

What CEOs say about AI and what they mean about layoffs and job cuts: Goldman Sachs peels the onion

“Companies that have discussed AI in the context of their workforce have cut their job openings more sharply this year,” economist Ronnie Walker...

03.12.2025 4

Nick Lichtenberg

Netflix would be ‘killing three birds with one stone’ by buying Warner Bros. Discovery, BofA says

The global media industry is standing at the edge of a “historic transformation,” with Warner Bros. Discovery at the “epicenter,” Bank of...

02.12.2025 5

Nick Lichtenberg

The man behind Google Meet went from being ‘the only Indian kid in my class’ to connecting 3 billion users worldwide. He test-drives the product every day

When Awaneesh Verma was a kid, he liked the idea of meeting people in different cultures and them truly understanding each other. He had no idea.

30.11.2025 8

Nick Lichtenberg

Tim Wu knows where you got your ‘economic resentment’ and that ‘weird feeling of something you like getting worse’: It’s ‘the age of extraction’

"My understanding of America is that it's the place where things are supposed to get better," said the "net neutrality" and "attention economy"...

30.11.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

Carmelo Anthony reflects on Hall of Fame career, investing wins and passing on Google and crypto: ‘That’s another one I should have went with my gut on’

The NBA legend talked to Fortune about his business career, his investments, NIL rights and more: "Now, I don't think these kids really enjoy that...

28.11.2025 9

Nick Lichtenberg

This founder dropped out of college at 20 to become his own boss. His journey to profitability included Shaolin monks and Ironman competition

Gustas Germanavicius, one of Lithuania's top ironmen, told Fortune what he learned from his time in Shaolin: "no pain, no gain" and "practice makes...

27.11.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

OpenAI won’t make money by 2030 and still needs to come up with another $207 billion to power its growth plans, HSBC estimates

What company has a consumer base representing 44% of the world’s adult population and a $620 billion data center bill? OpenAI five years from now.

27.11.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

Americans can’t agree on what ‘middle class’ means anymore, and they’re debating it in the comments of TikTok home tours

The "average" or "normal" home tour is fascinating, even dividing, thousands of Americans on TikTok who can't agree on social class.

27.11.2025 3

Nick Lichtenberg

Markets wipe $250 billion off Nvidia as they digest Google’s revenge, with Gemini 3 emerging as ‘current state of the art’

What if AI’s version of Google turns out to be…Google?

26.11.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

McKinsey explains why AI won’t take your job, even though it can already automate 57% of all U.S. work hours

The fastest-growing skill in U.S. job listings is "AI fluency," seeing a sevenfold increase in two years.

25.11.2025 8

Nick Lichtenberg

The analyst who once predicted the ‘end of capitalism’ sees Zohran Mamdani’s election as a ‘day of reckoning coming in’—and corporates only have themselves to blame

Albert Edwards says Zohran Mamdani’s policies are “lunacy,” but big companies “laid the seeds for their own destruction.”

25.11.2025 6

Nick Lichtenberg

Novo Nordisk stock trades at 4-year-low on the back of disappointing Alzheimer’s trial

The stock of the Wegovy and Ozempic maker is down nearly 50% year to date.

25.11.2025 3

Nick Lichtenberg

‘There’s only so much you can absorb from the tariffs, because they’re just very high’: Levi’s CEO states the plain truth

Levi’s CEO Michelle Gass spoke to McKinsey and Business of Fashion for its 10th “State of Fashion” report. It’s a “relationship business,” she said.

25.11.2025 4

Nick Lichtenberg

Trump’s gambit to save Republicans from a giant health insurance spike comes with a $50 billion price tag, CRFB estimates

The $38 trillion national debt, which always seems to be growing, could expand even further if Trump extends ACA subsidies, as reports indicate.

25.11.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

Warren Buffett’s exit is ‘leadership at its most selfless,’ McKinsey CEO whisperer says. It’s a powerful lesson in Fortune 500 succession

Carolyn Dewar told Fortune that CEO succession is so difficult that Intuit's Brad Smith invited Steve Young in to talk about succeeding Joe Montana.

22.11.2025 8

Nick Lichtenberg

Trump’s retreats on tariffs have already wiped out $800 billion of expected deficit reduction, CBO estimates

The Congressional Budget Office is projecting $2.5 trillion of deficit reduction over 11 years, down from its $3.3 trillion projection in August.

21.11.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

Gen Z men are flocking to quarter-zip pullovers—they’re trying to fake it until they make it in a job market stacked against them

A rallying cry for a generation struggling to find entry-level work: “It’s straight quarter-zips and matchas around here.”

21.11.2025 9

Nick Lichtenberg

One of the world’s most popular economists on why AI is ‘undoubtedly going to crash,’ it’s built off ‘digital lettuce’—and the U.S. will be just fine anyway

Irish economist David McWilliams is taking his "History of Money" to America: "You kind of feel the boominess of the place, right?" he told Fortune.

20.11.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

‘Bond King’ Jeffrey Gundlach warns of the next financial crisis: ‘It has the same trappings as subprime mortgage repackaging in 2006’

The billionaire founder of DoubleLine Capital is also convinced the $38 trillion national debt will be addressed before 2030: "something has to...

19.11.2025 6

Nick Lichtenberg

Investment alarm bells ring: For the first time in 20 years, AI bubble fears have fund managers saying companies are overdoing it

Even Wall Street thinks this has gone too far. Some 202 panelists managing $550 billion in AUM are raising a concern unseen since 2005, according to...

18.11.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

Top analyst sees ‘genuine cracks for mid- to lower-end consumers’ as the K-shaped economy continues to bite

Mid- to lower-income households are struggling with an "affordability crisis," notes Lisa Shalett of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. Credit stress...

18.11.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

Goldman says the stock market has already priced in the AI boom, with $19 trillion of market value running ahead of actual economic impact so far

"Past innovation-driven booms—like the 1920s and in the 1990s—have led the market to overpay for future profits even though the underlying...

18.11.2025 20

Nick Lichtenberg

Why ‘affordability’ is every politicians’ nightmare: The anger that gets you elected and refuses to go away

The Fed measures inflation "at the time it's felt by the consumer," The Amherst Group's Sean Dobson told Fortune, different from measuring...

16.11.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

McKinsey studied the most successful Fortune 500 CEOs and found they share one similar trait

Carolyn Dewar and Kurt Strovink of McKinsey's CEO Practice talked to 200 leaders including Jamie Dimon, Michael Dell and Larry Fink. They saw...

16.11.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

‘We’ve probably made housing unaffordable for a whole generation of Americans’: top real-estate CEO on the real cost of Covid economic firefighting

"Affordability has probably never been as bad as it is today,” said Amherst's Sean Dobson. "You've got to be very, very careful."

15.11.2025 30

Nick Lichtenberg

Trump’s tariffs are a $29 billion tax on Americans’ holiday shopping bills, Lending Tree says

The tariff regime will cost you an extra $132 for gifts this year, which could have "a real impact on many families," LendingTree's Matt Schulz says.

14.11.2025 3

Nick Lichtenberg

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon to retire at 59 years old

John Furner, currently head of Walmart’s U.S. operations, will succeed McMillon as president and chief executive officer starting February 1, 2026.

14.11.2025 9

Nick Lichtenberg

Delta CEO slams ‘inexcusable’ shutdown that led to canceled flights and workers doing high-stress jobs without pay

"There was stress, there was strain, it was completely unnecessary," Ed Bastian told Yahoo Finance's Brian Sozzi.

14.11.2025 20

Nick Lichtenberg

Top economist Mohamed El-Erian warns the AI bubble will ‘end in tears’ and credit ‘cockroaches’ abound

El-Erian argued that AI is a "rational bubble," but some have gone "beyond their comfort zone and beyond their ability to do due diligence."

14.11.2025 8

Nick Lichtenberg

BofA cites ‘favorable protein economics’ in the chicken restaurant segment with the race afoot to corner the $67 billion market

Analysts Sara Senatore and Isaiah Austin also highlighted "menu versatility," as chicken lends itself to both quick-service restaurants and fast...

13.11.2025 3

Nick Lichtenberg

‘The tariffs are a big tax increase’: Top bank crunches the numbers on how much Americans are paying for Trump’s trade regime

"A decent chunk of the economy is in recession," according to UBS economists.

13.11.2025 30

Nick Lichtenberg

IEA heralds ‘the Age of Electricity’ while warning that oil may not peak in 2030 after all

The International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook still sees a pathway to mitigage "the most severe risks from climate change."

12.11.2025 2

Nick Lichtenberg

The shutdown ‘accomplished nothing and caused significant harm’ to many people, budget watchdog says, giving ‘new meaning to fiscal irresponsibility’

"It's hard to imagine the bar for dysfunctional government getting any lower than it is right now," said the Committee for a Responsible Federal...

12.11.2025 2

Nick Lichtenberg

Trump’s 50-year mortgage would save you about $119 a month while doubling the interest you pay over the long run, UBS estimates

Is an extra $119 per month worth another 20 years of borrowing?

12.11.2025 6

Nick Lichtenberg

Trump calls his 50-year mortgage idea ‘not even a big deal’ while insisting ‘the economy is the strongest it’s ever been’

"It might help a little bit," Trump said of the 50-year mortgage plan, which has no details attached yet. His housing director called it a...

11.11.2025 2

Nick Lichtenberg

Goldman CEO David Solomon warns ‘there will be a reckoning’ around the $38 trillion national debt

On the debt growing from $7 trillion to $38 trillion in just five years, Solomon said "it doesn't seem like we have the ability to pull it back."

11.11.2025 3

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McKinsey explains why AI won’t take your job, even though it can already automate 57% of all U.S. work hours

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The analyst who once predicted the ‘end of capitalism’ sees Zohran Mamdani’s election as a ‘day of reckoning coming in’—and corporates only have themselves to blame

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Trump’s retreats on tariffs have already wiped out $800 billion of expected deficit reduction, CBO estimates

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