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Tristan BoveFortune |
The growing list of prominent religious voices rebuking President Donald Trump comes with political stakes.
Countries have few incentives to permanently pivot back to coal, even during the worst energy disruption in history.
AI-powered recommendations promise to simplify shopping and coffee runs, but data suggests humans are just messier than that.
Affordability fears, high mortgage rates, and a war in the Middle East are rewriting the rules of the housing market’s most important season.
What happens when tariffs hit American agriculture? All 50 states found out.
AI is improving fast, but it has a long way to go before it can outperform humans in demanding tasks.
America’s top banker says the war’s ultimate potential upside would cancel out the current volatility, and he’s speaking for a big constituency.
From Asia to Europe, people are rushing to electrify wherever they can.
Americans could be on the hook for an extra $8 billion in gas prices, and some families will feel it more than others.
Three setbacks in seven days, even if most of them are out of his hands, have already complicated the new CEO’s vision of Disney.
Trump's rollback of student loan protections has pushed millions of young Americans into delinquency. The national credit score is the worst since...
The war in Iran’s ripple effects could run deep through America’s agriculture economy.
AI-driven benefits are still contained to a small portion of Americans, a bad sign for the growing wealth gap.
Getting smaller firms behind AI is easy. It’s also just the first step.
Government projections don’t see gas prices falling below $3 per gallon until the end of next year.
As the war in Iran sends gas prices surging, the world's growing electric vehicle fleet is providing a buffer. In America, it may finally be enough to...
Most indicators for the U.S. economy were relatively good last year, but not many Americans feel that way.
The Palantir co-founder's private lecture series has arrived in Rome, where both the Catholic Church and Italian lawmakers are pushing back on his...
Higher-for-longer oil prices would lead to economic spillover effects that are much harder to control.
It could be an ‘existential’ threat to the small businesses that rely on them.
The war’s global energy consequences could ripple far beyond its eventual end-date.
As the conflict blocks global fuel trade, governments are bringing back work-from-home policies to save energy.
Social Security’s insolvency would damage a $40 trillion buffer against a wider wealth gap.
Peter Thiel quietly dumped all his Nvidia shares and bought Apple and Microsoft—a repositioning that signals doubt about AI's most celebrated...
The world’s biggest oil exporter says reopening Middle East energy routes is critical as Trump claims the conflict may soon end.
Stopping for hydration breaks, going from halves to quarters, and showing more ads will make this World Cup more familiar to U.S. audiences.
Since the beginning of Trump’s second term, the strategic oil reserve has only grown 5%.
One of the most important names in the global natural gas trade says the war will leave a ‘chain reaction’ rippling through the world.
Young Americans have enough of the digital world, and going analog to make sense of it all.
The Iran conflict alone could cost the US $200 billion. Add it to everything else happening, and the U.S. economy is teetering on a ledge.
Small businesses employ almost 40% of working Americans and drive the vast majority of hiring. Their hiring budget was chewed up by a new tax last...
Trump’s costly campaign in Iran has come under fire for lacking a clear endgame.
War in the Middle East could bring on one of the worst-case scenarios in macroeconomics.
How a waterway barely 30 miles wide could plunge the world into recession.
Countries might have to pick between taking on more short-term risk or missing out on future AI-driven growth.
How Trump’s immigration crackdown could erase ‘the most potent fiscal engine this country has ever seen.’
Health spending is eating up a growing share of the government’s shrinking budget.
The best time to chip away at the national debt and balance the budget is now, when the economy is strong, says the IMF. Trump's trade tariffs are...
Trump’s trade policy risks confusing one problem for a much bigger crisis, according to Harvard professor Gita Gopinath.
So much speculation in financial markets does not bode well for an “already vulnerable economy,” Mark Zandi warns.
For her part, MacGuineas said Bessent’s diatribe was “a bit of an odd response.”
The death of El Mencho decapitates one of Mexico’s most powerful cartels, but there’s a whole lot more sustaining the drug industry nowadays.
Many shoppers and companies might cheer the drawdown of Trump’s tariffs, but the truth is America really needed that money.
Federal debt was set to reach 120% of GDP by 2036, the CBO projected, but that assumed the tariffs would stay in place.
A bipartisan commission saved Social Security in the 1980s. How would that approach fare today?
Allowing companies free rein on AI is bringing on a new level of existential risk, Stuart Russell argues.
Investors are drawing their battle lines as AI sorts tech companies into winners and losers.
$500,000 annual docking fees and private marinas are all part of the package for Florida’s wealthy sea-goers.
Can AI make up lost productivity from crashing fertility rates and shrinking immigration flows? Trump will certainly hope so.
The national debt is set to surpass the historic high of 106% of GDP (which it reached in 1946) by 2030, according to the CBO.