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Eva Roytburg

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The energy department said wind and solar capacity is ‘worthless’ without sunlight or wind. Elon Musk reminds DoE about batteries: ‘Um… hello?’

Musk touted a massive energy storage project in Australia designed to stabilize the grid and expand renewable use.

09.09.2025 40

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Is the Fed ready to go big? Analysts debate jumbo rate cut after soft jobs data

A half-point cut is “now in play,” some analysts say.

06.09.2025 4

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America’s job growth has flatlined — and Mark Zandi believes June may have been the start of a recession

June’s job loss was the first since the pandemic, a flashing-red signal that the economy’s growth momentum has stopped.

05.09.2025 2

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ADP says job growth was ‘whipsawed’ in August, with rare warning on AI and consumer jitters

It’s an ominous sign ahead of Friday’s release of jobs data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

04.09.2025 10

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Rural towns are handing out $10,000 relocation bonuses to poach high-earning remote workers

Forget corporate tax breaks. Cities now pay remote workers to move in.

04.09.2025 10

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Warren Buffett’s $57 billion faceplant: Kraft Heinz breaks up a decade after his megamerger soured

Did the Oracle of Omaha misplace his crystal ball?

03.09.2025 5

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From US Open ‘hat thief’ to Coldplay affair: CEOs keep going viral for bad behavior

Smartphones are turning CEO scandals into viral spectacles, and boards are scrambling to respond to the changing environment.

03.09.2025 4

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Nestlé fired its scandal-clad CEO without a payout—a ‘really unusual’ move, corporate governance expert says

High-profile executives usually get a “golden parachute,” even after serious misconduct violations.

03.09.2025 20

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Dollar General builds a rural delivery edge over Walmart and Amazon—and it’s taking their higher-income shoppers, too

Even higher income shoppers are now “value-seeking,” Dollar General CEO said.

28.08.2025 3

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‘It’s like when you see the tsunami coming in’: Agricultural economists are sounding the alarm about produce prices doubling

Consumers “don’t have a clue what’s going on,”  said Raymond Robertson, a labor economist.

28.08.2025 10

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‘Love Story’ for markets: Travis Kelce unveils American Eagle collection right after Taylor Swift engagement

From diamond rings to denim, the Swift-Kelce brand machine is moving markets already.

28.08.2025 4

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Taylor Swift’s ‘amazing’ 8-carat engagement ring set Travis Kelce back $550,000, jewelry expert estimates

“I would never think of her getting something standard,” Benjamin Khordipour of Estate Diamond Jewelry said.

27.08.2025 5

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Investors are salivating over rate cuts as Trump’s firing of Lisa Cook opens the door for a GOP Fed majority: ‘This is very positive’

It's more important to have a dovish Fed than an independent one, investor Jay Hatfield told Fortune.

26.08.2025 2

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In China, EVs are now cheaper than gas cars. In the U.S., the Big Three still haven’t closed a premium that’s $14,000 per vehicle

Detroit isn’t doomed, said Dan Sperling, founding director of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. But it requires some key policy...

26.08.2025 10

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Powell’s ‘unusual’ Jackson Hole remarks reveal he’s boxed in by Trump’s tariffs and deportations, risking a 1970s-style mistake, economist Slok says

If inflation starts climbing again after a rate cut, “the Fed will have to reverse course—and in the worst case, start hiking again,” Slok said.

22.08.2025 2

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Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump form an unlikely alliance over billions in chipmaker subsidies

Trump has a newfound taste for state involvement in the private sector. It’s a palate Sanders has long enjoyed.

22.08.2025 7

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Rural America is in crisis. One of America’s most provocative economists says the fix isn’t manufacturing — it’s something far less obvious

“We could do everything national conservatives hope to do for America’s non-college males, but through building, not factories,” economist Bryan...

21.08.2025 2

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Elon Musk’s teen prodigy Kairan Quazi is ditching SpaceX for billionaire Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities

Quazi defied every expectation since he was 10. Now, the teen prodigy is defying the Silicon Valley allure.

19.08.2025 4

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Trump’s police takeover of DC has a surprising casualty: restaurant reservations

Trump on Monday told reporters he thinks restaurants are more crowded than they’ve been in a long time.

19.08.2025 7

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Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers

Altman also said that he thinks we’re in an AI “bubble.”

18.08.2025 4

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Trump is deporting so many immigrants that it could cause inflation to hit 4% next year, top economist says

Even conservative Heritage Foundation economist Steven Moore is worried about a labor shortage.

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AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over

China is “set up to hit grand slams,” longtime Chinese energy expert David Fishman told Fortune. “The U.S., at best, can get on base.”

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Harvard researcher unearths data airlines don’t want you to notice: Three-hour flight delays are 4x more common now than 30 years ago

“It’s kind of a pessimistic story,” Maxwell Tabarrok said.

14.08.2025 4

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Kodak’s corporate doom: 133-year-old photo icon warns investors it may cease operations with $500 million debt problem

"They blew their future," one expert said.

13.08.2025 4

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Kroger’s CEO mysteriously resigned. An unrelated lawsuit involving Jewel could reveal why

As part of his departure, former Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen forfeited all of his unvested equity and bonuses—a total of $11 million.

13.08.2025 10

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Two Trump-appointed economists—and longtime friends—are clashing over Trump’s jobs data

William Beach, who Stephen Moore calls a “good friend,” said Trump's numbers shared during his Oval Office presser were “the strangest thing in...

10.08.2025 10

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Top economist says Trump’s Fed pressure may not be felt for years: ‘You can appear to get away with a lot while you’re actually doing a lot of damage’

Francis Fukuyama warns Trump’s moves could erode institutional independence—and business leaders won’t feel it until it’s too late.

07.08.2025 10

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Former Trump advisor criticizes Trump’s timing on ousting America’s data czar: ‘Like firing the referee’

After a historic downward revision to jobs numbers, Trump fired the head of the BLS. But critics on both sides say the move won’t fix deeper...

05.08.2025 2

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Meet the Harvard dropout who made an AI necklace he says is like ‘talking to God’

Critics have ridiculed the 21-year-old’s new product “Friend,” but Schiffmann remains unfazed.

12.08.2024 10

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Elon Musk’s troubled pro-Trump PAC is now being investigated by two swing states after appearing to scrape voters’ data

The probe is the latest of the PAC’s troubles, with a major shakeup happening in late July.

07.08.2024 30

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 Donald Trump got a Tesla Cybertruck from a controversial influencer—right after the former president said EVs will ‘destroy the country’

Streamer Adin Ross interviewed the Republican presidential nominee, who gave a shoutout to Tesla CEO Elon Musk

06.08.2024 20

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Rich, western countries face a stark choice: 6-day workweeks or more immigration, top economist warns

One of the world's foremost economists, Lant Pritchett, has a plan.

04.08.2024 20

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Trump tells his supporters to ‘GO AFTER’ Google and Meta

As election season intensifies, tech figures are dividing into Democratic and Republican camps.

02.08.2024 1

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Cows, cars, and $1 million in cash: here are some of the wacky awards countries give their Olympic medalists

One country gave their athletes a whole restaurant.

01.08.2024 10

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Elon Musk accepts a challenge to fight a Venezuelan strongman: ‘He will chicken out’

Musk previously waffled on a cage match with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

01.08.2024 30

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