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Eva Roytburg

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Google responds to Elon Musk’s accusations of a ‘search ban’ on Trump: ‘We’re working on improvements’

Google says autocomplete, in some instances, is "not working as intended."

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Elon Musk backs down from $45 million a month pledge to Trump, says he doesn’t ‘subscribe to cult of personality’

But, Trump demonstrated “great courage” after being shot on July 13, the CEO added.

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Tinder and Bumble are tanking from a Gen Z exodus because they don’t treat male users well, Grindr CEO says

Dating apps have been accused of weaponizing men’s frustration to make them pay more rather than helping them find love.

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Amazon is sitting on a Gen-Z goldmine that could be worth $46 billion – and it’s not movies or Prime

The popular streaming platform gives Amazon access to an advertising market it would otherwise bypass.

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