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Elon Musk said money doesn’t matter. Then he rolled out X Money and admitted he’s a ‘former trillionaire’

Musk lost $750 million, nearly the entire net worths combined of the three next richest men: Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Jeff Bezos.

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The Erling Haaland boom: Norway’s ‘pop-up economy’ during the World Cup revealed in Visa data

Wherever and whenever Norway was playing, taxidermy raccoon aside, a "pop-up economy" followed.

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LeBron James took a pay cut to maybe live in New York and commute to Philly by chopper, risking double taxation as NYC also tries to ban helicopters

LeBron James might commute to Philadelphia via helicopter from New York, and if he does call the Big Apple home, he'll face some big taxes too.

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No, Miami isn’t more expensive than New York. But it may be less ‘affordable’

"Now they're having affordability issues, and I think that's really making people think twice about leaving New York," broker Michelle Griffith said.

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Gambling becomes America’s favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined

Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.

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Kids don’t ‘Google it’ anymore. AI chatbots taught them to ‘search it up’ instead

A generational shift in slang is tracking a bigger one in how people actually find information online.

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LeBron James, the only billionaire currently active in the NBA, signs a minimum contract with the Philadelphia 76ers

"I’ve never been able to have no clue what to do and take real time to just think," the chosen one said about his latest decision.

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The Miami Heat, LeBron James, and prediction markets: How a ‘mistake’ social media post turbocharged a $245 million wager

“There’s a market for everything, and I think people have recognized that there’s a market for everything,” Georgetown’s Marty Conway told Fortune.

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Panera founder and Cava chairman Ron Shaich bets $100 million on Level99, bringing his restaurant industry playbook to entertainment

Act III Holdings doubles its stake in Level99 after the Disney Springs opening, betting restaurant-industry category discipline can build a dominant...

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LaLiga president says tech is already making the fan experience better, and it could solve football’s money problem too

This year's World Cup has been technified, but it's time for other soccer leagues to catch up and bring it to their domestic clubs.

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Looking back at the World Cup: Fans drank Boston dry, got permanent tattoos, sold out famous BBQ joints, and drove up small business revenue

From permanent tattoos and drinking Boston dry, to a bar doing nearly 300% of weekly business in one night, the World Cup is helping small businesses.

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So you want to buy a sports franchise? Why entering sports ownership gives the rich a ‘very elite and exclusive club’ with great tax benefits

Increasingly, the founders and heads of companies like Home Depot, Walmart and LVMH are entering the sports world. There's a good reason for that.

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Scott Bessent says $1 coin with Trump’s face on it will ‘honor the enduring legacy of liberty’ with a ‘lasting symbol of patriotism’

Federal law bars a living person's portrait from appearing on U.S. currency. Treasury cites the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020.

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It’s now cheaper to buy a new home than a used one, thanks to builder incentives and baby boomers who don’t want to sell on the low

There are deals to be had in the housing market right now as home builders offer incentives to move more inventory.

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A new FCC proposal could spell the end of the burner phone

Burner phones may be a thing of the past as a new FCC proposal will require carriers to collect a customer's name, address, ID number, and alternate...

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Topgolf’s CEO thinks the sport’s next star could get their start at one of its driving ranges

The former Chuck E. Cheese CEO who clawed the chain out of a $1 billion in debt is bringing family-friendly entertainment to a Topgolf near you.

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The ‘Soccer Capital of America’ is now gunning for the Soccer Capital of the World (Cup)

Kansas City has invested $700 million over the course of more than a decade to create the soccer and sport infrastructure that is now in public view.

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More noncollege-educated men are living at home and falling out of the labor market, forcing a decline in marriages, all thanks to rising rents

“Very real economic forces” are “limiting the options for non-college-educated men,” said Gabrielle Penrose of the American Institute for Boys...

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This summer’s hottest IPOs are minting a new class of ultra-high-net-worth ‘IPO Bros’—and family offices are changing how they approach them

A hot IPO summer means family offices are learning how to navigate newly minuted UHNW "IPO Bros" who have that entrepreneurial spirit.

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The Raising Cane’s co-CEO has seen those World Cup fans praising the chicken and sauce. He’s ‘pretty grateful’ to have ‘chicken fanatics’ worldwide

Raising Cane's co-CEO AJ Kumaran has seen those World Cup visitors' videos lauding the chain's sauce and chicken. Now he's getting requests worldwide.

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49% of young adults live at home, up 12 points since 2019. An economist says the fallout will reshape marriage, kids, and home-buying

Nearly half of adults under 30 now live with a parent—and the Fed's data shows the squeeze is creeping into their 30s and 40s

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Kevin Warsh buried an unusual, unhedged promise in his first Fed minutes—and one economist says it’s the strongest signal in the document

A former Fed economist says one unhedged sentence in Warsh's shortest-ever statement reveals more than the "family fight" minutes themselves.

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Labor force participation falls to 61.5%, the lowest in 50 years outside COVID, and economists say it’s not just people giving up

Although AI and tech innovation is blamed for that drop, it has more to do with the lack of supply relative to the number of jobs that are available.

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‘Failures happen during construction’: Office-to-residential conversions are all over NYC, but failures usually get fixed before they get worse

An engineer says the failed columns at the former Pfizer HQ have nothing to do with steel material quality.

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‘Even shaving one minute off an EMT trip for severe cases can generate huge economic benefits.’ Well, New York’s congestion pricing did just that

Ambulances were 6% faster when traveling through the congestion pricing zone, bringing people to care all the faster in an arena when every second...

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Billionaire soccer fan Ken Griffin helped engineer Team USA’s best World Cup run in 24 years. Now, he looks ‘forward to building on that momentum’

Griffin contributed the largest financial gift to the U.S. men's national team nearly two years ago to secure Mauricio Pochettino as their head coach.

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Meet the former Goldman Sachs exec who became the America’s Cup Partnership’s first CEO and is running the 175-year-old trophy like a startup

The oldest trophy in sports is in New York's harbor to celebrate the country's 250th birthday, onboard the "most beautiful ship in the world."

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The man who ran Bernie’s campaign says Democrats are still making the same mistakes with Democratic Socialists, and they should laud Mamdani’s win

Tad Devine, Bernie Sanders' top strategist, says the rules of running for office and navigating a presidential candidacy are intentionally complex.

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Trump rings opening bell for Trump Accounts as Treasury commits $1.4 billion in seed money

For the first time in history, a president rang the opening bell at the Oval Office, and Trump did so to champion the launch of Trump Accounts.

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Meet the soccer-playing humanoid robot that just delivered the game ball at the Brazil v. Norway FIFA World Cup match

Meet Atlas, the 5-foot tall humanoid robot that delivered the World Cup match ball, has 56 points of movement on its body, and learned to play soccer.

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Americans will eat 150 million hot dogs today. One specific American is predicted to eat 70 of them

Joey Chestnut is predicted to eat 70 hot dogs this year, just as prediction markets make it easier to gamble on the odds.

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Those bots sending discounts to your email is dynamic pricing in action. Get revenge on those bots by abandoning your cart

Retailers are looking at your browsing history to change the price you see in your cart. Maybe you should be doing the same when looking to buy.

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The sports economy is unaffordable at the bar, let alone the stadium

New data shows fans are going into debt for tickets — and one in five can't even afford to watch out at a sports bar.

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Why build AI data centers in a cornfield when Saudi Arabia has cheap oil and cheaper power?

"Data center capacity in the United States is not going to age well," MNTN CEO Mark Douglas told Fortune. He gives it two years.

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Trump’s 927-page disclosure is just a normal Tuesday for direct indexing and crypto wealth managers

Trump’s excessive trades look like those of an automated, direct indexing, tax-loss harvesting portfolio, not one individual in the know.

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Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, William Boeing: These Fortune 500 founders are the American-born children of immigrants

In a 6-3 majority, the Supreme Court voted to uphold birth citizenship, the idea that children born in the U.S. are automatically U.S. citizens.

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Should you go to work during a heat wave? Your productivity suffers, and GDP tanks when it’s hot

Productivity peaks at around 22°C (72°F) and falls roughly 2% per degree above 25°C, reaching 8.9% below peak at 30°C.

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‘Humanity has chosen to become idiots’: This Brown professor switched to take-home exams after a mass shooting and discovered mass cheating

Roberto Serrano literally wrote the book on game theory, but he's befuddled: "Why are you at a university if you refuse to learn, you refuse to work...

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A former Fed colleague of Kevin Warsh on what to expect: ‘Plan for higher rates’

Esther George spent a decade dissenting in favor of tighter policy. Now she says Warsh may have no choice but to raise rates.

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The retired college professor fighting a $313 trespassing ticket in Wisconsin thinks he’s part of a national struggle

Paul Florsheim just wanted to walk his beach. The retired professor thinks his $313 trespassing ticket is like the fight against Elon Musk.

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The ‘FIFA 15’ is American culinary diplomacy in action

World Cup travelers are flocking to American products like ranch dressing and Raising Cane's. That's the beauty of bringing people together.

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Are Europe’s heat waves deadlier than American gun violence? Kind of—and one of the hottest summers on record is making it worse

Heat has killed 200,000 Europeans in four years. The WHO calls it a health emergency.

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The Iran war is accelerating the EV transition faster than any climate policy ever did—but it’s still just not that much

Goldman Sachs put a percentage on the EV adoption "surge" after the Iran War: 3.4%.

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For the first time ever, no young women in England died of cervical cancer. In the U.S., RFK Jr.’s vaccine skepticism stalls HPV progress

Zero deaths, 200 lives saved, and 61% vaccinated. Without the vaccine, 23 women would have died, but in the U.S., RFK Jr. still won't call it safe.

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Elon Musk to get a billion shares of SpaceX if he can settle a million humans on Mars

Both traders on prediction markets and even SpaceX itself thinks a human colony on Mars is unlikely.

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Executive pay climbed again in 2025—and the CEO-to-worker gap kept widening

The gap between CEO and worker pay hit a four-year high in 2025, with median CEO compensation rising 13% to $4.75 million, per new data.

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How FIFA restructured the World Cup into its biggest payday ever, as host cities face a budget shortfall

Gianni Infantino promised to quadruple FIFA's income back in 2016, and now he's throwing "104 Super Bowls" with an unprecedented tournament.

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The Knicks’ playoff run that ended in a championship and parade is worth at least $380 million to New York City

The Knicks' first-ever ticker-tape parade capped a postseason that could generate at least $380M for NYC, and cost the city a small fortune to pull...

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‘AI is going to create a labor shortage’: Jeff Bezos sees more jobs being created in the new economy, not less

The Amazon founder bets AI will create a labor shortage, not a doomsday, as he debuts Prometheus, his $41 billion startup reengineering the physical...

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Infant mortality in the U.S. fell to an all-time low in 2025 thanks to antibody shots and RSV vaccines

Although it's an all-time low compared to three decades ago, the infant mortality rate in the country is still higher than other high-income...

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