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Some Ford employees say they’ve been warned they could be fired for not going back to the office, report says

The automaker has tightened its return-to-office policy, requiring most salaried staff to work on-site four days a week as part of CEO Jim Farley’s...

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Jamie Dimon warns leaders not to ‘put their head in the sand’ about AI. ‘It is going to affect jobs’

Managers and leaders have to “get their mind working on how they’re gonna use this thing,” the JPMorgan Chase CEO said. “It’s kind of the...

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 Top Wall Street economist sees 2 ways tariffs could play out — and neither is good for the average worker

Nathan Sheets, Citi’s global chief economist, told Fortune that it's a similar situation to the "devastating" 1930s, but maybe not in the way you...

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Trump tries to cool off MAGA’s rage over the Puerto Rican rap superstar headlining the Super Bowl: ‘I don’t know who he is’

Trump didn't touch the MAGA trial balloon over an NFL boycott, but he did say he hates the new kickoff rules. "It just looks terrible."

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Trump says the American Dream is on hold because ‘big homebuilders’ are ‘sitting on’ 2 million empty lots

It’s an unusual attack, since it resembles Ezra Klein’s “abundance” thesis, and one of Trump’s top deputies is a homebuilding heir.

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Trump says the U.S. can grow its way out of $37 trillion in debt. Ray Dalio’s debt-cycle research says not so fast

“With the kind of growth we have now, the debt is very low relatively speaking. You grow yourself out of that debt,” Trump said.

04.10.2025 10

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I tried the viral AI ‘Friend’ necklace everyone’s talking about—and it’s like wearing your senile, anxious grandmother around your neck

New Yorkers are vandalizing posters advertising friend.com, calling the AI necklace “dystopian” and “creepy.” It also just doesn’t really work.

03.10.2025 10

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The Gen Z hiring nightmare is real, but AI is a ‘lightning strike’ not a ‘house fire,’ Yale economist says

Stanford made waves with a paper saying AI is having a “significant” impact on entry-level jobs. Not so fast, Yale’s Martha Gimbel told Fortune.

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Meta is exploiting the ‘illusion of privacy’ to sell you ads based on chatbot conversations, top AI ethics expert says—and you can’t opt out

Linguist and AI critic Emily Bender says the shift could incentivize Meta to design its AI to prod users into even more conversations.

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The 22-year-old AI CEO behind Friend.com necklace welcomes graffiti on his $1 million ad campaign: ‘Capitalism is the greatest artistic medium’

“The audience completes the work,” Avi Schiffmann, creator of the AI wearable, told Fortune. “I purchased the zeitgeist.”

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Jensen Huang doesn’t care about Sam Altman’s AI hype fears: he thinks OpenAI will be the first ‘multitrillion-dollar hyperscale company’

Zuckerberg and Altman are scared of a bubble. Not Nvidia’s leader, who also offered thoughts on the $100,000 H-1B visa setting "the bar a little too...

29.09.2025 2

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Musk, Thiel and Bannon appear in newly released Epstein records, years after sex-offender plea

The schedules show high-profile names penciled in for lunches, flights and island trips.

27.09.2025 3

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All bark, no bite: Trump’s latest trade war turns into another TACO salad for Wall Street

Markets actually improved on the latest surprise round of Trump tariffs.

27.09.2025 3

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Trump’s billionaire backers will now ‘actually control’ Tiktok’s algorithm, JD Vance says

With the Ellisons (Oracle) and Murdochs (Fox) in the mix, Trump allies are poised to take at least partial control over the app’s recommendation...

26.09.2025 10

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Elon Musk just sold Grok to U.S. government for 42 cents—and signals warmer ties with Trump

Washington is quietly handing Musk a foothold in the AI race with a licensing deal.

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Starbucks chases Gen Z nostalgia, betting $1 billion on plan to bring back the ‘third place’

The Starbucks’ workers union is not happy with the plan, which also includes huge store closures and hundreds of layoffs.

25.09.2025 7

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Bill Clinton warns Trump’s aid cuts could fuel 6 million new HIV cases—and is unveiling a $40 drug plan to fill the gap

“We’re pulling further and further away from one another," the former President said of shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

25.09.2025 2

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What oil CEOs really think about Trump, tariffs and uncertainty: ‘Those who can are running for the exits’

"The uncertainty from the administration’s policies has put a damper on all investment in the oilpatch," one exec wrote in the quarterly Dallas Fed...

25.09.2025 3

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Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’

Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its...

24.09.2025 2

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Jerome Powell says Congress and the private sector, not the Fed, are responsible for ‘the things that will really matter for future generations’

Powell is nearing the end of a tumultuous second term.

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Alabama builders rethink deportations as raids disappear hundreds of their ‘God-fearing, family-oriented’ immigrant workers

Builders are now calling for a work visa for law-abiding undocumented immigrants.

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Jerome Powell says Gen Z without tech skills are getting crushed in the ’low-hire, low-fire’ job market—and colleges are failing them

While a major economic issue, there’s not much the Fed can do about that, he said.

24.09.2025 10

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Elon Musk once vowed to ‘go to war’ for H-1Bs. Now he’s silent on Trump’s $100K fee—and smiling beside him at Charlie Kirk’s funeral

Musk inflamed a brutal Christmas-time conflict over the visas. Is he trying to win back Trump’s good graces now?

22.09.2025 3

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‘Shut it down!’ — Bumble founder Wolfe Herd is terrified that there’s a new Hulu biopic about her life and wanted to block it two years ago

“I’m obviously both terrified and maybe slightly flattered,” Whitney Wolfe Herd said of “Swiped.”

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Meta’s 28-year-old billionaire prodigy says the next Bill Gates will be a 13-year-old who is ‘vibe coding’ right now

Teenagers, Alexandr Wang argues, have a built-in edge.

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Trump says Charlie Kirk could have become president as Obama rips Kimmel suspension taking ‘cancel culture’ to a ‘new and dangerous level’

Columbia's Alex Abdo said Brendan Carr of the FCC is close to “the definition of unconstitutional coercion" while Chuck Schumer called his rhetoric...

19.09.2025 10

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Top media scholar calls Kimmel’s benching ‘one of the fastest exertions of station power I’ve ever seen,’ sees a vanilla late-night future ahead

“We may be coming full circle," Robert Thompson of Syracuse University told Fortune, "back to a Carson-style, harmless late night—with NBC the...

18.09.2025 5

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Jerome Powell on signs of an AI bubble and an economy leaning too hard on the rich: ‘Unusually large amounts of economic activity’

“[Spending] may well be skewed toward higher-earning consumers,” Powell said. “There’s a lot of anecdotal evidence to suggest that.”

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Powell isn’t being subtle about Trump, immigration and the employment disaster: ‘The supply of workers has obviously come way down’

"There’s very little growth, if any, in the supply of workers. And at the same time, demand for workers has also come down quite sharply," the Fed...

18.09.2025 3

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The Fed blinks: First rate cut since December comes as hiring falters and Trump rages

Stephen Miran, Trump’s pick to join the Fed, dissented against the group, voting in favor of the stronger half-point cut.

17.09.2025 3

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A 30-year-old Walmart worker falsely accused of celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death was suspended from his job. Now he fears for his family’s safety

"They knew where I lived": After a fake X account impersonated him, Ali Nasrati says he became the target of threats, harassment, and a suspension he...

16.09.2025 3

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Once richer than Peter Thiel, Pop Mart’s Wang Ning sees $6 billion vanish with Labubu hype

Once celebrities start posing with a toy, Gen-Z tunes out. What was scarce and cool suddenly feels commercial and inauthentic.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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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