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Goldman investment banking co-head Kim Posnett on the year ahead, from an IPO ‘mega-cycle’ to another big year for M&A to AI’s ‘horizontal disruption’

A Fortune Most Powerful Woman, Posnett is global co-head of investment banking and a member of the Management Committee.

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This Harvard professor spent 8 years traveling the world researching the secret history of capitalism and how ‘marginal’ and ‘weak’ it used to be

Sven Beckert has spent nearly a decade trying to understand the 1,000-year-old thing that capitalism is. "This is a human-created order."

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Making billionaires illegal by taxing their wealth wouldn’t even fund the government for a year, budget expert says

"What people don't realize," Penn Wharton Budget Model director Kent Smetters told Fortune, is there's "just not as much money there as people think."

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The Nobel Prize committee doesn’t want Trump getting one, even as a gift—but they treated Obama very differently

There isn't a Nobel double standard when it comes to regifting or auctions. One even sold for a whopping $103.5 million.

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As Trump throws a bone to Gen Z on student debt, watchdog calls it an ‘incoherent political giveaway,’ straight out of Biden’s playbook

Student-debt collections are being halted again, as they have for over half a decade now.

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Anthony Scaramucci thinks Trump’s ‘hard-left’ move to cap credit-card fees is because he’s ‘texting back and forth with Mayor Mamdani’

The "mooch" says it really shows a pivot to "full nihilism." His podcast guest, longtime GOP strategist Stuart Stevens, called it "darkly hysterical."

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Gavin Newsom’s anti-Zohran moment: the California billionaire tax that splits the Democratic Party down the middle

Zohran Mamdani said he doesn't think we should have billionaires. Gavin Newsom said he doesn't think California should have a billionaires tax.

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Gavin Newsom literally started his career with funding from a billionaire, but he was also raised by a single mother with 3 jobs

The California governor's stance on a wealth tax is complicated.

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Rural America is getting a bailout, but not from Trump—billionaires are riding to the rescue

It's not just MacKenzie Scott who's giving back to American communities.

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California’s wealth tax doesn’t fix the real problem: Cash-poor billionaires who borrow money, tax-free, to live on

Billionaires live under "buy, borrow, die," and California's wealth tax wouldn't touch that. An estimated $1 trillion of wealth has already fled.

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Peter Thiel makes his biggest donation in years to help defeat California’s billionaire wealth tax

Peter Thiel and Gavin Newsom are united in opposition to the billionaire tax.

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Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser warns of job cuts and says it’s time to raise the bar in a fiery memo to staff: ‘We are not graded on effort’

Fortune's Most Powerful Woman on Wall Street is cutting 1,000 jobs now, with tens of thousands more to come as she says "old, bad habits" are over.

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Carhartt CEO says they always focused on blue-collar workers—but hipsters came anyway: ‘We welcome anyone … that wants to celebrate hard work’

"We don't try to be everything to everybody," Carhartt CEO Linda Hubbard told Fortune, as she announced a blue-collar partnership with Ford...

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Delta sees wealthy high fliers leading to another record year—but its CEO sees the main cabin ‘struggling greatly’

Investors are glum about tariffs taking a bite out of Delta's guidance, sending shares down 3% as the carrier capped a banner year.

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‘Hybrid creep’ is the latest trick bosses are using to get workers back in the office

The remote work jungle is full of varied and exotic species. The "hybrid creep" boss is the newest one.

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‘Microshifting,’ an extreme form of hybrid working that breaks work into short, non-continuous blocks, is on the rise

Do you micro-shift, sometimes late into the night?

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Scott Adams, Dilbert creator who went from cubicle wars to culture wars, posts open letter to time with his death at 68

"If you are reading this, things did not go well for me," Adams' X account said on Jan. 13. The cartoonist had documented his illness for many months.

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The 4.9% mystery: U.S. economy sees productivity surge, but drivers remain an ‘open question,’ top economist says

"We believe much of the rise is cyclical," Morgan Stanley economists noted in the report.

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Netflix’s competition isn’t sleep anymore. Its battle against YouTube is like fighting an ‘infinite number of monkeys,’ top strategist says

Media disruption expert Doug Shapiro is writing a book about "infinite content" through his Substack, The Mediator. He talked to Fortune about what's...

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This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again

“It was extremely difficult,” IgniteTech CEO Eric Vaughan tells Fortune. “But changing minds was harder than adding skills.”

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From Merrill Lynch to wok station: the daughter of San Francisco’s Chinese food dynasty who defied her parents—by working alongside them

House of Nanking's Kathy Fang talked to Fortune about her new cookbook, quitting corporate life, and when her dad embarrassed her in front of Keanu...

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AI adoption isn’t an easy way to cut jobs—or easy at all, Wharton professor says: ‘The key thing … is just how much work is involved in doing it’

Peter Cappelli says headcount will (eventually) go down, with a human in the loop, and productivity will go up. But "it's hugely expensive to do...

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Google billionaire Larry Page copies the Jeff Bezos playbook, buying a $173 million Miami compound that will save him millions in taxes

Critics warned a wealth tax in California would lead to a billionaire exodus. Florida says come on in, the water's warm.

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Trump’s $1.5 trillion military budget would add $5.8 trillion to the national debt, with interest, CRFB says

Meanwhile, the Peterson Foundation updated its projection: the U.S. would be spending more on defense than the next 35 countries combined.

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The $38 trillion national debt is one thing 82% of Americans agree on: ‘Voters are understandably concerned,’ watchdog says

The nonpartisan Peter G. Peterson Foundation finds widespread — and bipartisan — concern over the debt.

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Trump threatens to ban Wall Street from buying the house next door, saying ‘American Dream is increasingly out of reach for far too many people’

Trump has not yet released draft legislation or an executive order, but officials and outside analysts say the administration is exploring several...

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AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that’s masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests

"Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress up layoffs" as good...

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‘Largest LBO in history’: Warner rejects Paramount again, scoffing at $87 billion worth of debt in its $108 billion bid

Warner continues to stick with Netflix, the shock winner that emerged in early December from the auction begun by Paramount.

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25 is the new 30 when it comes to AI founders as Gen Z entrepreneurs lead the way on billion-dollar unicorn startups, top VC partner says

The average AI unicorn founder was 40 years old in 2020, but now they're younger than 30, according to global venture capital firm Antler.

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Robots are really advancing because they’re learning to think for themselves—and they’re close to figuring out door handles, execs say

"What has now changed," Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak told Fortune, "is that these models or these robots can now can learn from data."

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‘We took our business community for granted,’ San Francisco’s new mayor admits to city’s failings, but vows not to move fast and break things

"We said 'We can just keep punishing you... and you're going to stay.' Well that didn't happen. People fled."

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Mark Cuban has a solution for the $38 trillion national debt: Fine health insurers for falling short

The billionaire is really worked up about pharmacy benefit managers. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan called them "prescription drug middlemen."

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Why Wall Street permabull Tom Lee thinks we’re in the third great labor shortage era—and AI is an innovation like frozen food

"We entered the third epoch, or era of labor shortage, which started in 2018 and it's going to last to 2035," Fundstrat's Tom Lee predicted—a boon...

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Venezuela’s 20-year downfall featured a weird bromance between Hugo Chávez and Sean Penn, ex-husband of Madonna and ‘One Battle After Another’ actor

Colonel Lockjaw played a very different role when he visited Caracas to see Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and the Mexican jungle, to meet El Chapo.

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Bosses are fighting a new battle in the RTO wars: It’s not about where you work, but when you work

Burnout has moved from a state of place to a state of mind.

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Before Maduro arrest, Nobel Prize winner said Venezuela has a $1.7 trillion opportunity to privatize over 500 companies and undo socialist ‘disaster’

Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves, but “our people don’t even have gas even to cook. That’s a disaster,” María Corina Machado...

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Meet the ’empowered non-complier’: A certain kind of valuable worker who flouts return to office whenever they feel like it

JLL's Workforce Preference Barometer finds that your most valuable employees probably least want to be in the office—and they have the power to stay...

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Tesla is officially smaller than China’s BYD in EV sales as it reports second-straight year of falling sales

Tesla stock is down over 6% over the last five days but the market seemed to be expecting Friday's news about EV deliveries.

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The world’s richest added a record $2.2 trillion in wealth this year—and they increasingly lost faith in the American Dream

The "everyday millionaire" population is exploding, and the rich added a record haul themselves this year. But where do they want to live?

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Trump moves to freeze federal funds for Minnesota, demanding daycare audit after ‘blatant fraud that appears to be rampant’

President Donald Trump’s administration announced on Tuesday that it’s freezing child care funds to Minnesota and demanding an audit of some day...

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Seafood thieves snatch $400,000 of lobster, plus oysters and crabs, in round of New England robberies

Imagine the buffet. Forty-thousand oysters, lobster worth $400,000 and a cache of crabmeat all were stolen in separate incidents within weeks of each...

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Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK and cousin of Health Secretary RFK Jr., dies of cancer at 35

Her death comes just weeks after she publicly revealed in The New Yorker that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.

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Exiting CEO left each employee at his family-owned company a $443,000 gift—but they have to stay 5 more years to get all of it

Some CEOs have been very generous when selling their companies, but there’s little to compare with what Fibrebond’s Graham Walker just did.

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The resistance is jazzy: Trump’s renaming of Kennedy Center continues to blow up in his face as musicians revolt

“The artists who are now canceling shows were booked by the previous far left leadership,” Richard Grenell wrote on X.

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Buddhist monks peace-walking from Texas to DC persist even after being run over on highway outside Houston

A group of Buddhist monks is persevering in their walking trek across much of the U.S. to promote peace, even after two of its members were...

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YouTuber’s viral ‘Somali daycare’ video spurs sweeping federal fraud probe in Minnesota as Walz defends oversight of $18 billion

Kash Patel and Kristi Noem are looking closely at Minnesota after an independent journalist's 40-minute video raised many views—and questions.

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Former Russian banking billionaire says an Instagram post cost him $9 billion: His company was sold for 3% of its value in ‘hostage’ situation

"I couldn’t negotiate the price. I was like a hostage," Oleg Tinkov told The New York Times in 2022. More details are now emerging.

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The Netflix-Paramount saga caps a 2025 turning point, S&P says: Cable TV is in the ‘decline stage,’ with a long, slow bleedout ahead

"These decisions signify a shift in the media industry as companies abandon cable networks in favor of streaming services."

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$25,000 per month: the cost of Trump tariffs on small business importers, revealed

The Center for American Progress said the tariffs haven't been a Christmas gift for American business, more like a lump of coal.

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The weakest labor market since 2011 has BofA asking, ‘Dude, where’s my job?’

"A lack of recovery in the jobs market and a slower U.S. economy are key risks to watch for 2026."

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