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Eva Roytburg

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AGI is here, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has declared. Here’s why the market doesn’t care

If AI were really about to unleash the explosive growth its boosters predict, economists say it should show up somewhere surprising: real interest...

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Who runs the labor market? Women accounted for 98% of U.S. job gains in August

The economy added 162,000 jobs, nearly triple forecasts, but the gains were unusually concentrated among women

04.09.2026 2

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‘I don’t think there’s a floor’: Workers’ share of America’s income is at a record low before the AI boom even begins

EY-Parthenon chief economist Gregory Daco says that the economy’s surprising productivity gains so far predate AI.

04.09.2026 10

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The bond market is crashing Trump’s midterm campaign

George Washington University’s Stephen Kaplan says the bond market is giving Washington a “check."

03.09.2026 4

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This matchmaker went viral when her $35,000 client took a date to a soft pretzel restaurant—but he wasn’t subject to the ‘bald tax’ or the ‘short tax’

Because of a fixation on tall men, some shorter or bald men have to pay this viral matchmaker a tax because it involves more work on her behalf.

13.08.2026 10

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Nvidia found a new way to keep the AI boom funded: your retirement money

A $500 billion Wall Street push could route insurance and pension capital into GPU-backed infrastructure as Big Tech leans harder on debt.

12.08.2026 9

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Inflation came in perfectly on forecast. Almost everything underneath it is a ‘mess’ as wages struggle to keep up

July CPI offered some welcome relief, but the report masks stubborn rent increases and wages that can barely keep up.

12.08.2026 10

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How Scott Bessent used financial engineering to finance the $2 trillion deficit while leaving it untouched—and created a $1.45 trillion shortfall

The alarm is coming from inside the house. The Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee says the borrowing math no longer adds up.

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The deportation economy is backfiring on American workers, top economist warns

Diane Swonk says July’s bizarre jobs report is the first data from the deportation economy: shrinking payrolls and a shrinking workforce.

07.08.2026 10

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How SpaceX’s most-feared trading day turned into a 6% rally

"These are not people waiting to get their first dollar back," a former SpaceX employee told Fortune. "We've had chances over the past 10 years."

07.08.2026 10

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A billion SpaceX shares unlock Thursday. Wall Street isn’t worried: ‘You never bet against Elon’

Four index providers rushed SpaceX into millions of 401(k)s within 25 days of listing. D.A. Davidson’s Gil Luria sees how Musk already knows how...

05.08.2026 10

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The power couple of AI is getting married in Carmel, days after groom Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund nearly blew up

Leopold Aschenbrenner sold the bulk of his firm, Situational Awareness, to Citadel at a discount, then offered investors one-on-one calls during his...

31.07.2026 9

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‘I’m just stuck’: Meet the former OpenAI researcher sitting on $700K of equity that he says is overvalued

Andrew Ho worked at OpenAI for eight months but said he had to leave after realizing how tremendously overvalued the AI labs are. And he doesn’t...

30.07.2026 9

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Meta stock drops 10% as free cash flow gets crushed—and Zuckerberg hints at launching cloud business with few details

Meta's quarterly results showcased the strength of its core social media business, as well as the gap in its business model in the AI arm's race.

29.07.2026 10

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Wall Street is panicking over Kevin Warsh’s patience

The Dow fell over 2% after the conference.

29.07.2026 10

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‘A lot of panic around the AI investment’: How a chip slump is driving the Nasdaq toward correction

It’s a chip panic that “appears to be indiscriminate,” analysts say.

28.07.2026 10

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The U.S. government invested $27 billion in corporate stakes. Good luck finding them

The Trump administration's equity stakes—from Intel to quantum startups—appear in no budget document and are subject to no watchdog.

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AI is forcing Big Tech to do something it’s never done: Spend more than it earns, and Wall Street hates it

The Mag7 had its worst day Thursday since the tariff-driven selloff last April.

23.07.2026 10

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The Trump administration is revamping the era of the ‘gentleman scientist.’ It’ll cost $200 billion

Can AI be the partner Darwin always dreamed of?

23.07.2026 10

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Anthropic and SpaceX just handed Google the biggest profit quarter in company history—on paper

A $99 billion markup on stakes in Anthropic and SpaceX delivered more than two-thirds of Alphabet's stunning $112 billion profit.

22.07.2026 10

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Billionaire Mike Bloomberg warns Trump’s AI ownership plan would make ‘George Orwell blush’

"Somewhere, Karl Marx is smiling," the media company founder wrote in an op-ed, calling current markets a "smoke-filled backroom."

21.07.2026 10

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Mathematicians grapple with a ‘very rapid and very unsettling change’ as AI cracks yet another century-old problem

Anthropic's Levant Alpöge, a former Harvard valedictorian, used Claude's Fable 5 to find something that mathematicians have failed to since 1939.

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Nobel laureate economist warns AI jobs apocalypse fears could become a self-fulfilling prophesy

"When millions of people make millions and millions of decisions based upon negative expectations, there is a risk that fear can actually help birth...

27.06.2026 10

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OpenAI agrees to stagger rollout of its most powerful model to only Trump-approved customers

It is the second time in a month that a frontier lab’s most powerful model has been held back from general release over fears about cyber...

26.06.2026 20

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The bond market knows something about the $39 trillion national debt that Washington doesn’t

A more hawkish Fed could be bad news for the record debt. The bond market decided to ignore it.

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A Saints legend is selling fans a piece of professional sports for $500

Marques Colston's Champion Fund opens an owners-only world to anyone with a few hundred bucks. The catch: 5.75% in annual fees.

20.06.2026 30

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Kevin Warsh showed that he’s decisively not Trump’s ‘sock puppet’—and markets didn’t like it

"That was hawkish Kevin talking," according to the "Fed whisperer," Jon Hilsenrath.

17.06.2026 10

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A 21-year-old cofounder’s sales pitch to clients begs them to question the company’s results: ‘Do not trust us. Do not trust our model’

Ned Koh, the founder and president of Aaru, said the AI startup’s ability to predict outcomes better than human-led survey data speaks for itself.

17.06.2026 20

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SpaceX just surpassed Amazon’s market cap, overtaking the 31-year-old company on day three of public trading

Elon Musk has made more money today than Warren Buffett has made in his entire career.

16.06.2026 10

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Anthropic’s IPO pitch has a new problem: the government can shut it down

"Heck yeah there's regulatory risk," said David Linthicum, a longtime cloud analyst.

16.06.2026 10

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Meet Gwynne Shotwell, the engineer-turned-COO who runs SpaceX in platform heels and is now worth over $2 billion

"I need more data than Elon does to make a decision," Gwynn Shotwell once said.

15.06.2026 30

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Astronaut costumes, teenage crypto millionaires, and a $300 million bet: Scenes from the SpaceX IPO

From a prop trader who bet “a car” to an early investor sitting on $300 million, the sidewalk outside the Nasdaq represented everyone in the AI...

12.06.2026 10

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Bank of America told investors to ‘take profits.’ Then the Nasdaq fell 7%

Days before the worst chip rout since 2020, BofA warned that seven warning lights were flashing.

11.06.2026 10

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Inflation is roaring back globally, 2022 style. The Iran war is only half the problem

Europe, China and the U.S. are straining to meet the demands of the AI boom

11.06.2026 10

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Gates testifies on Epstein: previous Fortune investigation reveals payments to his ex-girlfriend, $1M Microsoft deal

Bill Gates said Wednesday that he made a “grave error in judgment” by meeting with Jeffrey Epstein.

10.06.2026 10

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Inflation is back above 4% for the first time since 2023—but Kevin Warsh might catch a break

Core inflation stayed tame, easing hawkish worries at the Fed.

10.06.2026 20

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Wall Street dumped nearly $1 trillion in tech stocks by midday—then clawed it back and bought peanut butter and paint

A midday rout in the “Parabolic 7” chipmakers reversed by the close as money fled into the market’s dullest corners.

09.06.2026 10

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The AI trade’s worst day in a year became a buying opportunity by Monday

Friday’s Nasdaq rout looked like the start of a real repricing. By Monday, chipmakers were rebounding.

08.06.2026 20

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Trump stunned as stocks fall on great jobs report. Barclays explains why ‘we are entering the warning zone’

“With a great Jobs Report, like just announced, stocks should go up, not down," Trump posted. "That's the way it was for 200 years. Growth does not...

07.06.2026 20

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The May jobs report just blew past expectations—and maybe too far for markets

The labor market delivered 172,000 jobs in May, past the expectation for 88,000.

05.06.2026 10

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SpaceX reveals its share price and record valuation: 555.6 million shares at $135 apiece, at a $1.77 trillion valuation

The SpaceX filing starts the timer on a hot IPO summer complete with two other highly anticipated IPOs: Anthropic and OpenAI.

03.06.2026 10

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AI was supposed to be killing jobs. In spring, the labor market is opening up instead

"The data doesn't back it up," says Employ America's Skanda Amarnath, who sees backfilling behind a labor market that's stabilizing.

03.06.2026 10

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Victoria’s Secret CEO rejected ‘woke-washing’ and endless sales cycles—and it’s paying off

Hillary Super ditched the performative playbook, brought back the glamour, and Wall Street is taking notice.

02.06.2026 20

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Buffett says Abel ‘has launched’ with his first big Berkshire deal: an $8.5 billion housing bet

The Taylor Morrison acquisition checks every box in Warren Buffett's playbook—except one.

02.06.2026 20

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If S&P Dow Jones rewrites its listing rules, SpaceX and Anthropic will benefit—investors won’t

As SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI line up to go public, S&P Dow Jones is poised to waive the profitability rule that kept Tesla out for years.

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What’s rarer than a unicorn? Anthropic didn’t just join the Series H club, it almost became the first $1 trillion private company ever

The $65 billion funding round was led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia, more than doubling the company's valuation in just three months.

28.05.2026 10

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Elon Musk’s best friend could make more than $100 billion from SpaceX’s IPO. His firm is also owed billions by SpaceX

Antonio Gracias' Valor entities hold a massive SpaceX stake—and are on the other side of nearly $20 billion in AI hardware financing deals...

25.05.2026 20

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Elon Musk’s proposed pay package in SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals what the company actually is: a $1 trillion monster built to colonize Mars

‘We do not want humans to have the same fate as dinosaurs,’ the prospectus reads.

20.05.2026 30

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The one number that will actually move Nvidia’s stock Wednesday night

A beat is almost a given—Nvidia has beaten expectations 21 of the last 23 quarters. Whether the stock rallies or falls depends on a number below the...

20.05.2026 20

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The 30-year yield hasn’t been this high since the Great Recession. Do the bond vigilantes ride again?

"Wow." Analysts can’t decide if the bond market rout is nothing or everything.

19.05.2026 20

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