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JP Morgan Athlete Center of Excellence: athletes need a financial playbook now more than ever

These aren’t professional athlete questions.

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Adam Frank

You won’t be able to return a Christmas gift you bought on Amazon purchased before Nov. 1

Estimates for spending on holiday gifts, decor and the like between late 2026 and January 2027 range from about $1 trillion to $1.7 trillion in the...

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James Malm

FEMA’s maps undercount the U.S. flooding risk by about 6 million homes — and some of those maps are two decades old

Most homeowner’s policies don’t cover flood damage.

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Yilei Yu

Coffee giant Dutch Bros made all of its executives, including the CEO, do a two-week bootcamp where they learned how to pour drinks and run stores

Dutch Bros CEO Christine Barone and senior leaders have to complete six shifts of hands-on shop training, sharpening their hospitality skills and...

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Emma Burleigh

A CEO gave his employees Fridays off. Three years later, revenue is up about 160%

Brick Media caps workloads and hires instead of piling on. Resignations fell from six in 2022 to none so far in 2026, though profit margins have held...

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Bilin Lin

Unrest in France looks like a ‘pretty big foreshadowing’ to economists nervously eyeing national debt at 126% of GDP

"To me, the biggest warning sign from France is really not just the K-shaped economy effect, but the generational effect that's going on and to see...

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Eleanor Pringle

‘No vote, no warning, just plain math’: Social Security is six years from an automatic 22% cut—and most Americans have no idea

The retirement trust fund runs dry in late 2032, triggering an automatic cut for current and future retirees. Every year Congress waits makes the fix...

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Lena Borrelli

So much ‘liquid gold’ could hit the market that the world’s top producer is withholding output—but supplies can’t stay ‘extra virgin’ for long

Spanish olive oil production is projected to jump 23% to 1.6 millions tons, marking the fourth-largest harvest ever.

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Jason Ma

Florida’s new property tax cuts could defund the police, fire fighters and EMS in small towns, threatening ‘rural dark ages,’ former GOP lawmaker says

"A thinner tax base means fewer services. The dark ages won’t arrive all at once. They’ll arrive one closed fire station at a time."

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Jason Ma

In-N-Out’s billionaire owner vows iconic chain ‘will always be’ in California and says leaving the state would be the ‘dumbest business decision ever’

"This is where we started. It's where we are now, and it's where we will always be," Lynsi Snyder, president and owner of In-N-Out, said.

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Jason Ma

Alabama Power spent more than $6 million on ads last year — and customers can be billed for half of them until 2029

Jim Zeigler, a perennial candidate in Alabama across several decades, will return to the PSC 48 years after leaving the commission.

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Dennis Pillion

Berkshire Hathaway stock is a haven again as investors flee AI bloodbath while its own portfolio takes a hit amid reshuffling

Berkshire bought $2.4 billion of stocks during the third quarter and sold some $2.8 billion.

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Jason Ma

This CEO lived on canned soup and took just two days off for his daughter’s birth. Now, he admits he lost sight of proper work-life balance

Ron Schneidermann, CEO of test prep company Acely, is urging Gen Z to do it differently.

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Preston Fore

Starter homes cost $1 million in a record 242 U.S. cities—proof the affordability crisis has hit the homes meant for first-time buyers

The first rung on the property ladder now costs seven figures in a record 242 cities, a new Zillow report shows.

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Sydney Lake

Billionaire Brian Chesky’s social-worker parents told him to pick a high-paying career. He went to art school—and started Airbnb with 3 air beds

Chesky’s mother, herself a social worker, was worried when he became an art student. He started Airbnb when he was barely making rent.

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Sasha Rogelberg

The battle for megawatts: why restricting data centers is a strategic mistake

Power must reach new computing capacity in time.

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Serhiy Tokarev

Wall Street banks brace for ‘political theater’ as Democrats return to power—but few expect major change anytime soon

“They can make life difficult, but they can't necessarily change the overall tenor of where the banks are projected to go,” a Citi analyst said.

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Morgan Chittum

‘Fast fires’ were just 2.7% of U.S. wildfires but destroyed 78% of the structures lost — and up to 449,000 could be lost by 2060

We found that roughly one-third of western neighborhoods facing the greatest future risk are low-income communities.

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Virginia Iglesias

Big Tech’s AI race will save small business owners time. It won’t find them customers

The next customer is one introduction away.

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Eric Groves

Bullying rates reach 68% at some colleges, on par with emergency services — and students angling for better grades are the biggest source

Thirty percent of our survey respondents reported that students pressured them for a better grade.

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Jason Walker

‘Shock absorbers’: Korn Ferry says managers are carrying AI change that executives aren’t ready to lead

A Korn Ferry survey of more than 1,300 leaders finds managers absorbing AI uncertainty, while Gallup says just 25% of U.S. workers have heard a clear...

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Bilin Lin

The lame-duck session gives Congress an opportunity to act on the national debt: $40 trillion is just the tip of the iceberg

Something has to change. But what can be done?

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Steve H. Hanke

A new group of senators from both parties will vote on how to save Social Security. Here’s what they’ve said about it

From taxing higher earners to changing the retirement age, incoming lawmakers have offered different approaches to the funding gap.

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Tatiana Sataua

‘Like being hit between the eyes with a sledgehammer’: Meet the one town in America that defied election trends and voted in favor of data centers

Harwood, North Dakota residents voted against an initiative calling for a slowdown in industrial developments like AI data centers.

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Sasha Rogelberg

Xero CEO: Why America’s entrepreneurship boom is only half the story

Right now, we’re flying blind on owner outcomes.

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Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune tops $200 billion. His 3 daughters won’t inherit most of it

The Meta CEO and Priscilla Chan pledged 99% of their shares in a 2015 letter to their newborn. Those shares were worth $45 billion then; his fortune...

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Emma Witman

He went from washing lab equipment for $10 an hour to leading a $30 billion healthcare company. His advice to Gen Z: Raise your hand

Dexcom CEO Jake Leach says the secret to getting ahead isn't asking for a promotion—it's becoming the person willing to take on what others won't.

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Preston Fore

A ‘geologic freak’ called the Smackover may end America’s lithium dependence on China, and Big Oil is already there

Standard Lithium, EnergyX, Exxon and Chevron are betting direct lithium extraction can turn the Smackover into a domestic supply hub and cut the U.S....

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Jordan Blum

Ferrari’s Luce was ridiculed as a ‘Magic Mouse on wheels.’ Now the EV is sold out for 2027, and buyers haven’t even driven it yet

Even Ferrari’s former chairman warned the EV risked destroying the reputation of the brand.

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Mia Osmonbekov

A WhatsApp channel called Lula’s Army grew from 50,000 to more than 10 million subscribers as Brazil’s president staged a historic comeback

He erased the deficit and won the all-important runoff election by more than 3.5 percentage points – more than 4 million votes.

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Anthony W. Pereira

Florida voters nearly tripled the homeowner tax break — blowing an $11.8 billion hole in county budgets

This translates to a 30% reduction in revenue for Florida counties and a 13% cut for smaller municipal governments.

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Abigail Hall

Gas was pricier on this Election Day than any before it — up almost 40% to $4.15 a gallon since the Iran war began

Right before 1974's midterm election, Gerald Ford launched the “Whip Inflation Now,” campaign. But Republicans lost 48 House seats and five Senate...

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Michael A. Mische

Gen Z voters broke for Democrats 66% to 31% in the midterms — and the Iran war cracked their top three issues

Overall, 27% of young people – meaning people ages 18 to 29 – went to the polls during the midterms, our Nov. 5 analysis shows.

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Sara Suzuki

‘Everyone knows why we lost,’ JD Vance points to the Iran war — which has already cost at least $38 billion and 19 American lives

During the summer, the U.S. and Iran agreed to an initial 14-point memorandum of understanding that, if finalized, could have brought a permanent end...

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Javed Ali

Democrats just won control of Georgia Power’s regulator for the first time in 30 years — and its OpenAI data center contract was entirely redacted

Beginning in January, three of the five officials on the Georgia Public Service Commission will be Democrats.

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Emily Jones

Elon Musk once said the Cybertruck would be Tesla’s ‘best product ever.’ Now he’s winding down production

Cybertruck sales fell 48% between 2024 and 2025, according to an estimate by Cox Automotive’s Kelley Blue Book.

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

The midterms didn’t stop the AI buildout. They simply repriced it—and OpenAI is already promising to pay up

Two days after voters rejected data centers almost everywhere, OpenAI pledged to cover its own power bills and post financial guarantees.

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Catherina Gioino

Trump admitted the Iran war and gas prices hurt Republicans. It was his version of the identity politics that cost Democrats 2024

Trump admitted on election night the war hurt Republicans. Gas is up 40% since it began, and tariffs cost families $1,000 a year.

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Catherina Gioino

Voters in Silicon Valley rejected the billionaire wealth tax while those in Los Angeles and San Francisco—home to the two top AI companies—wanted it

"A 'no' vote doesn't mean similar measures won’t ever be implemented."

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Jason Ma

Nearly two-thirds of 2021’s top 100 altcoins have lost more than 90%, CoinMarketCap data shows

Research CoinMarketCap shared with Fortune shows the median losing altcoin issued about 50% more tokens while the market cut its value by 95%.

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Anastasia Chernikova

OpenAI wants to win over data-center opponents by calling them ‘compute campuses’ and promising local benefits

“A campus implies a university, not a warehouse,” says veteran brand strategist Allen Adamson of OpenAI’s new pitch to communities.

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Tatiana Sataua

Prediction markets had a great election night: Now bettors are turning to which Trump officials could leave first

Pete Hegseth leads Polymarket’s odds for the next Cabinet departure, followed by Susie Wiles and Marco Rubio.

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Camila Grigera Naón

Bill Gates believes a billionaire’s tax is the only option in the age of AI—and ‘whatever’s left over’ can be used as a philanthropic safety net

"The primary responsibility of dealing with inequality will always rest with governments."

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Eleanor Pringle

Billionaires Ray Dalio and Richard Branson hate workplace gossip—but men who do it could face a steeper career penalty than women, study finds

New research found that men who gossip are perceived as less competent and less qualified for leadership roles than women who engage in the same...

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Preston Fore

Some Gen Z Trump voters switched sides over what one calls an ‘egregious betrayal’ on the economy and war

Home prices rose 30% while young households’ income grew 9%. Gen Z voters explain their midterm votes that drove a "blue wave."

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Muskaan Arshad

Over a quarter of Gen Z say they’d choose their dream home over their dream job—and they’re moving back in with mom and dad to make it happen

Gen Z is willing to put career ambitions on the back burner to achieve the American Dream of homeownership.

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Emma Burleigh

‘A master class in how to handle layoffs’: Canva is restructuring 22% of its workforce, and LinkedIn is applauding the exit package

CEO Melanie Perkins’s note to staff drew applause online for a package that includes a year of healthcare, career coaching and $10,000 project grants

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Bilin Lin

‘Pick another protein’: A cattle rancher senator’s answer on beef prices could give Democrats their first Mississippi Senate win since 1982

Trump called affordability a ‘fake word.’ Scott Colom’s ad turned her ‘so many proteins’ line into the race’s defining moment.

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Catherina Gioino

The government can lower grocery prices. It doesn’t have to run the stores

It’s a Costco card, with Washington as the buying club.

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David L. Ortega

Cava hit 500 restaurants ahead of schedule. Its CFO explains how it plans double in size by 2032

Cava's CFO Tricia Tolivar on reaching the halfway mark to 1,000 restaurants early.

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Sheryl Estrada