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‘I thought the oil would be much higher’: Trump’s rosy Iran war spin risks sending traders the wrong message

Goldman says the stock market rally is real, but built on hope. Citadel says Trump's own words drive volatility. Trump thinks oil could be $200 a...

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How Trump’s war screwed you out of your Trump tax refund: Wall Street has the receipts

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley crunched the numbers on the OBBBA refund bonanza—and the math is brutal. Gas prices wiped it out.

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Gen Z is ‘Chinamaxxing’—and it’s less a love letter to Beijing than an indictment of America

A viral TikTok trend is handing Beijing a cultural moment that decades of propaganda never could. Are we entering the Chinese century?

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The economist who was terrified of AI just found a rare reason for hope

Alex Imas spent years warning AI could collapse labor markets and crater demand. But he's been working on a new theory about what could go right.

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This founder was an AI layoff 9 months ago. Then he built an instantly profitable company with 2 partners and 12 agents

"We launched 2.5 months ago, and right now, we have $300,000 in ARR."

18.04.2026 20

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Trump’s big housing market solution is dead on arrival, UBS says—its model is Texas from 25 years ago

"There isn't a magic wand that will all of a sudden return housing affordability to its historic average tomorrow," ResiClub's Lance Lambert told...

18.04.2026 10

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A world going broke: IMF says America’s $39 trillion national debt is actually a global problem—and AI may be the only rescue

Global public debt is barreling toward 100% of world GDP, the fund warned Wednesday. Governments everywhere are spending money they don’t have.

17.04.2026 3

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Older millennials are starting to act like boomers in the housing market—and pulling away from the pack

The generation once shut out of homeownership is now using equity to trade up, leaving younger buyers further behind.

17.04.2026 10

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Gen Z turning its back on AI isn’t irrational — it’s a verdict on everyone who failed them

The most tech-native generation in U.S. history has soured on the defining technology of its era. The more they use it, the more they despair.

16.04.2026 3

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Trump has no plan to cut the $39 trillion national debt, but he does want to cut child care. His budget director is scrambling to clarify

OMB Director Russell Vought appeared before Congress to answer questions about the request for the largest military spending boost since World War II.

16.04.2026 4

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Teacher, blame thyself: Yale report savages Ivy League schools for destroying American trust in higher education

A new faculty report from Yale diagnoses the trust crisis gripping U.S. colleges and universities—and doesn’t spare its own institution from...

16.04.2026 5

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Most of you are rejecting AI. The data shows you’re running out of time

We have really strong feelings about AI, positive and negative.

16.04.2026 5

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Moody’s CEO: AI has a trust problem – better models won’t fix it

Moody’s was founded over 100 years ago on the conviction that markets function better with transparent, rigorous and independent data and analysis.

16.04.2026 8

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The org chart isn’t ready: How AI exposed the hidden crisis inside the American corporation

A landmark KPMG index finds boards demanding transformation, execs spending billions on tech, and the people caught in the middle burning out.

15.04.2026 3

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a16z’s Ben Horowitz sees ‘AI anxiety’ consuming Silicon Valley founders. Workers’ fear of something else is killing adoption

The a16z co-founder said the "laws of physics" have changed for founders — and "AI anxiety" is real. Workers are experiencing something much darker.

15.04.2026 5

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Xi Jinping says the world order is ‘crumbling into disarray.’ Larry Fink and the IMF are worried about a global recession

The Iran war, trade chaos, and a shifting geopolitical landscape are converging into what could be the defining economic moment of the decade.

14.04.2026 4

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Trump’s economy officially passes Biden’s for worst consumer sentiment in recorded history

The University of Michigan's index plunged to 47.6 in April — shattering the prior floor set during the 2022 inflation crisis.

14.04.2026 5

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Trump’s macho MAGA economy is a bust. But there are plenty of high-paying jobs for men—in nursing and teaching

Tired: Blue collar. Wired: Pink collar.

14.04.2026 1

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The most valuable worker in the AI economy is Nurse Dana from ‘The Pitt’

Nursing has become the most structurally durable career in America. A hit TV show and a top economist help explain why.

13.04.2026 3

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Turns out the American middle class didn’t die. It got richer—and felt poorer

Since 1979, the American Enterprise Institute calculated, the ranks of the upper middle class, earning $133,000 to $400,000, more than tripled.

12.04.2026 10

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Legendary investor says the AI boom masks a deeper crisis: Falling sperm counts, shrinking populations, and vanishing resources

Jeremy Grantham remembers rattling investors in 2022: "I irritated the stock market players, irritated the newbies who were investing their Biden's...

12.04.2026 10

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‘Downward mobility is incredibly radicalizing’: The college bargain is broken. What comes next could reshape America

"Creative, brilliant people are going to wake up this decade and realize the jobs that they thought they were going to have ... are gone."

10.04.2026 2

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‘Good for Russia, good for China, bad for America’: how the Iran war is reshaping global economies and power

Stagflation, unemployment, recession: The Iran war is rewriting the global economy and the damage may be permanent.

10.04.2026 10

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You’re looking at the AI revolution all wrong, top economist says: 40% unemployment and a 3-day work week are the same thing

"Sixty percent of people employed and 40% unemployed is the same number of working hours as 100% employed at 60% of the hours," Alex Tabarrok says.

09.04.2026 5

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White-collar workers are quietly rebelling against AI as 80% outright refuse adoption mandates

"AI didn't deliver," Johns Hopkins professor Steve Hanke told Fortune. "Welcome to the real world. Forget the AI bubble."

09.04.2026 2

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What do you do when your AI agent hallucinates with your money?

Researchers from Google DeepMind, Microsoft, Columbia University, and t54 Labs want to build a financial safety net around autonomous AI.

08.04.2026 10

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The AI trade is over. Top Wall Street analysts say the AI opportunity might be just starting

The question now: Is this a generational buying opportunity?

07.04.2026 6

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The megamanager era: AI is doubling bosses’ workloads—and the costs are just beginning to show

As AI reshapes how workplaces are organized, the gap in human talent could widen faster than anyone expects.

07.04.2026 4

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Trump, the $39 trillion national debt, rosy growth assumptions and the question of ‘a sustainable path’

The White House is betting 3% GDP growth will shrink the deficit—but faster growth would likely drive up interest costs on the $39 trillion national...

07.04.2026 5

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Sam Altman and Vinod Khosla agree: AI will break the economy. Their fix is no income tax for most Americans

The venture capitalist's proposal to eliminate income taxes for earners under $100,000 now has a powerful institutional ally—the most valuable AI...

07.04.2026 4

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Goldman just looked at 40 years of data on the ‘scarring’ effects of technological disruption and finds Gen Z isn’t the most at risk

“Over the 10 years following a job loss, real earnings for technology-displaced workers grow nearly 10 percentage points less,” Goldman economists...

06.04.2026 6

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AI is cutting 16,000 U.S. jobs a month — and Gen Z is taking the brunt, Goldman Sachs says

New research finds younger, entry-level workers bearing the brunt of AI's labor market disruption — even as the technology creates jobs elsewhere.

06.04.2026 3

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Jamie Dimon defends the U.S. war on Iran—and warns it’s pushing the economy into uncharted territory

In prior years, the JPMorgan CEO warned about economic hurricanes and banking crises. This year, it's about the unraveling global order itself.

06.04.2026 6

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AI angst mutates into ‘FOBO’ as Fear of Becoming Obsolete takes over American workforces

EY's Joe Depa says he sees a split in staff. There's "high adoption, right out of the gate" for juniors but senior workers "are somewhat resistant."

05.04.2026 6

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A Yale economist says AGI won’t automate most jobs—because they’re not worth the trouble

Pascual Restrepo's new NBER paper argues it's not about what AI can do. It's about what AI will bother doing—and most human work doesn't make the cut.

04.04.2026 5

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Plowshares into swords: Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense surge is the largest since World War II — and no one can explain how to pay for it

"MAGA was told an untruth by Trump — no foreign wars, no adventurism," Steve Hanke told Fortune. "This is a massive militarization."

03.04.2026 9

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Trump wants to add nearly $7 trillion to the $39 trillion national debt with his new military budget, watchdog warns

Trump's proposal would be "by far the largest year-over-year increase in defense spending in the post-WWII era," the CRFB said.

02.04.2026 7

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Ford CEO Jim Farley says America is sleepwalking past its ‘essential economy’ crisis. Goldman Sachs just showed how big it really is

Does America have enough essential AI workers? Not really.

02.04.2026 10

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Deutsche Bank asked AI if it’s true that AI will solve the economy’s inflation problems. The robots answered

The answer from the machines was unfortunately not what Wall Street wanted to hear.

01.04.2026 4

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AI is saving workers up to an hour a day — but Goldman Sachs says 80% of companies aren’t using it yet

The productivity gains are real and measurable. So why are most businesses still sitting on the sidelines?

01.04.2026 5

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This billionaire is quietly giving away free college to 800,000 people

Steve Klinsky built a $60 billion private equity empire straight out of "Barbarians at the Gate." Now he wants to make college free — one exam at a...

31.03.2026 4

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Jamie Dimon says the American Dream is ‘slipping out of reach’ — and JPMorgan is spending billions to fix it

"The American Dream is alive, but it's slipping out of reach for too many people—and for future generations," Jamie Dimon said.

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Jerome Powell says the $39 trillion national debt is ‘not unsustainable,’ but warns the trajectory ‘will not end well’

“The federal government debt is growing substantially faster than our economy,” the Fed chair told a roomful of Harvard students.

30.03.2026 1

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Jerome Powell to Gen Z: Don’t fear AI—master it

The Fed chair told Harvard students that young workers’ best career move is learning to use AI, even as the technology disrupts the labor market.

30.03.2026 1

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62-year-old English retiree plans to sell his house so he can afford World Cup tickets: ‘it felt like the right time to cash in’

One hardcore England fan hopes to sell a house to fund his World Cup trip this summer. Andy Milne, a 62-year-old retired teacher, says he is ready to...

29.03.2026 2

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How a couple’s kitchen table and a bean burrito built a $1 billion food empire

Amy's Kitchen founders Andy and Rachel Berliner never planned to be in big business. Nearly four decades later, they still live in the same ranch...

29.03.2026 4

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The AI doomsday everyone’s worried about is the wrong one

Companies are spending 93% of their AI budgets on tech and only 7% on people. It's already backfiring.

29.03.2026 10

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This high school dropout was cleaning offices for $14 an hour before he used AI to build a $1 million business

Rick Chorney was working long days but still had emails at night. "I went a little crazy," he said. "There came a day where I was just like, 'I am...

28.03.2026 20

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Trump’s war in Iran is costing the U.S. economy 10,000 jobs a month, Goldman Sachs says

The bank sees the Iran-driven oil shock stripping 10,000 jobs a month from U.S. payrolls through year-end. Leisure, hospitality, and retail are hit...

26.03.2026 2

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‘Intelligence may be scalable, but accountability is not’: A new report exposes the hidden cost of the AI agent revolution

Accenture and Wharton mapped AI's impact across 18 industries, concluding: the smarter your agents get, the more irreplaceable your best humans...

26.03.2026 4

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