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Goldman’s chief information officer has 4 tips on how to AI-proof your career, including ‘posing provocative, non-obvious questions’

“While AI excels at refurbishing existing knowledge,” according to Marco Argenti, “its true creative potential is unlocked by human curiosity.”

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Fed’s Chris Waller says he had a ‘great interview’ to succeed Jerome Powell and the labor market is ‘weak’ and ‘not doing great’

"There was nothing political about it," the Fed governor told CNBC. "Just serious economic discussion."

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Trump just celebrated the bull market’s third birthday by wiping 2% off the S&P 500, lashing out at China over the great rare earths tug-of-war

“Some very strange things are happening in China!” Trump posted, hinting that he’ll cancel his upcoming talk with Xi Jinping.

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The bull market is turning 3 years old and top analysts are wondering, is AI actually good for economic growth?

UBS global chief economist Paul Donovan has a question: "Is AI hurting growth?"

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From ‘fear factor’ to ‘cognitive fatigue’: KPMG principal on the quarter when everyone started thinking about AI differently

Rahsaan Shears says we’re seeing the rise of “Renaissance skills,” but that doesn’t mean the workforce will be full of poetry majors.

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$1.8 trillion deficit revealed during ‘pointless and wasteful government shutdown,’ budget watchdog says

The U.S. is on track to borrow nearly $2 trillion per year for the next decade, the CRBF notes. "How can anyone think this is sustainable?"

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Delta’s bet on wealthy Americans driving the economy is working: Premium seats are set to overtake main cabin for the first time in history

Premium is on track to overtake main cabin in 2026, a year ahead of schedule, per the third-quarter earnings call from America’s most profitable...

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Bank of England on AI mania: ‘Stretched’ stock valuations ‘comparable to the peak of the dotcom bubble’

The top five members of the S&P 500 command nearly 30% of market share, a record high for any point over the past 50 years.

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Bloodthirsty activist investors are set to take down a record number of CEOs this year, Barclays says. The record is only a year old

Challenger, Gray & Christmas called "the rise of the CEO gig economy" earlier this year. The circling sharks of activists are part of the reason why.

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Trust funds that finance Medicare and Social Security are at risk of insolvency within 7 years, cutting benefits up to 24%, a new report warns

A couple turning 60 this year would face an $18,400 Social Security cut, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

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A world without data centers (404: your life not found)

You are always using a data center, even if you don't know it.

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American Eagle CEO defends Sydney Sweeney campaign: ‘You can’t run from fear. We stand behind what we did’

"Sydney Sweeney is worth every single dollar that we invested,” according to American Eagle Chief Marketing Officer Craig Brommers.

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Top analyst ‘very concerned’ about Nvidia fueling an AI bubble and a ‘Cisco moment’ like the dotcom crash: ‘We’re a lot closer to the seventh inning than the first or second inning’

"The guy at the epicenter [is] basically starting to do what all ultimate bad actors do in the final inning," Morgan Stanley's Lisa Shalett tells...

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All-cash offers are still a third of all home purchases, dominated by ‘investors and second-home buyers,’ data shows

All-cash deals were 27.5% of the market in 2019. It's a different world now, according to Realtor.com's Hannah Jones.

07.10.2025 2

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Hedge fund billionaire says 2025 is ‘so much more potentially explosive than 1999’ because of the way bull markets always end

Paul Tudor Jones also got far out and sci-fi, talking to CNBC. “We’re kind of boldly going where no man has ever gone before.”

07.10.2025 2

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Nearly 70% of Americans think the economy is on the ‘wrong track’ and even more think it’s a bad time to buy a home, Fannie Mae survey shows

Americans are short on hope about the housing market.

07.10.2025 2

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KPMG chief on CEO uncertainty about tariffs, the AI ‘hourglass’ org shape and the fear ‘that honestly keeps me up at night’

The 2025 edition of the KPMG CEO Outlook survey reveals business leaders full of uncertainty, but they know tariffs and AI are here to stay.

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‘Risk of correction elevated’: BofA rings alarm bells on gold as price nears $4,000 an ounce

A “variety of multiple time frame technical signals and conditions warn of uptrend exhaustion,” writes BofA’s Paul Ciana.

07.10.2025 5

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Trump’s message to ‘the young people of TikTok’ and Gen Z: ‘You owe me big’

Trump endorsed the idea of a TikTok ban all the way back in 2020.

06.10.2025 3

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Trump’s tariffs may be bringing in a lot of revenue but they’ve also been a ‘tax on capital, so far,’ top economist says

The "mystery" of the 2025 economy is vastly different from the record profit margins of 2021 and 2022, Morgan Stanley's Michael Gapen says.

06.10.2025 2

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Former Tesla exec claims EV industry will grow, not shrink, after death of $7,500 tax credit: ‘The market’s established’

But Ford CEO Jim Farley sees EV sales being cut in half after the expiry of the $7,500 federal tax credit.

04.10.2025 8

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Taylor Swift prepares to take a ‘Showgirl’-themed victory lap as she eyes a $35 million haul and a second box-office number 1

"The Life of a Showgirl," Swift's new album, is being accompanied by a three-day film event: "The Official Release Party of a Showgirl.”

03.10.2025 3

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Ford CEO reveals that he made sure his Gen Z son ‘had a summer job where he learned how to weld, to fabricate, to really work with his hands’

Jim Farley said his grandfather, a Ford factory worker, didn't go to college, and if his son goes on to work in the trades, he'd be "so thrilled as a...

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Gen Z, millennials, and Republicans drive trust in media to the lowest ever recorded, a shocking collapse of 40 percentage points since 1972

Trust in media has never been lower, Gallup says. A shocking 70% of U.S. adults have “not very much” confidence or “none at all” in what they...

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‘I don’t know why I need to go to college’: Ford CEO says his Gen Z son worked as a mechanic and wondered if the 4-year degree was still worth it

Jim Farley hosted a panel with Mike Rowe, who said, “Nothing in the history of Western civilization has gotten more expensive, more quickly” than...

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The NFL is launching professional flag football leagues for both men and women, Commissioner Roger Goodell says

“We’re committed to creating a women’s professional league, and a men’s professional flag league," Goodell said at an event in London.

02.10.2025 2

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Fine for me, bad for us: 2 top management professors explain why remote work is bringing you down

Peter Cappelli and Ranya Nehmeh’s “In Praise of the Office” diagnoses what’s behind the problems of onboarding Gen Z and Zoom meetings...

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Lyft CEO on the time Bill Gates told him he was making ‘the stupidest decision I’ve ever heard anyone made’

The year was 1996, and Gates called his star employee into his office. "You mean to tell me you're leaving this company for some tiny, little internet...

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The economy is just getting stronger, not weaker, and ‘we in the economics profession need to look ourselves in the mirror,’ top analyst says

“The consensus has been wrong since January,” Apollo Global Management chief economist Torsten Sløk wrote on Wednesday.

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Ford CEO says America is ‘far behind’ rivals like China on blue-collar industry. ‘It is pretty humbling when you look at where we are’

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, speaking at Ford’s event on Tuesday, warned that she’s “very sober” about the stakes: “China will dominate.”

30.09.2025 2

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Ford CEO on his ‘epiphany’ after talking to his Gen Z factory workers: ‘They were saying I had to have three jobs’

During the UAW strike of 2023, Farley said he was shocked by what he heard: "Old-timers in our plants were saying, 'It’s no longer a career, Mr....

30.09.2025 3

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Escape from New York: Impending election of a democratic socialist mayor has the wealthy fleeing to the suburbs

Westchester agents see a "Mamdani effect," while one Manhattan-based realtor tells Fortune she's "never seen this type of reaction to a mayor."

30.09.2025 2

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McDonald’s is bringing back Monopoly for the first time since the ‘McMillions’ scammer was exposed for stealing $24 million in prizes

Players can win a range of prizes, including $1 million cash, a 2026 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited, and $10,000 Lowe’s shopping sprees.

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Suzy Welch worries that Gen Z is ‘unemployable’—and some leaders are intervening to teach them basic life skills

Liz Feld, who works on college campuses with Gen Z, says "They're threatened" by small talk. "They will tell us that they see a rejection in a...

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Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog on the ‘phenomenal stupidities’ of his beloved LA, the dangers awaiting Gen Z and ‘The Future of Truth’

These are "incredible times," the great director tells Fortune, "more incredible than anything we ever had in human history."

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This chief people officer of a $1.5 billion AI startup is training managers on how to work with Gen Z. Both sides have a lot to learn

Rebecca Adams, chief people officer of Cohesity, said Gen Z colleagues "share everything, which I admire," but sometimes "it also is mindboggling."

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Accenture’s $865 million reinvention includes saying goodbye to people without the right AI skills

"This change is so big," Accenture CEO Julie Sweet told Fortune, "this is reversing five decades of how we're working." Higher headcount is still...

27.09.2025 8

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Your boomer parents are probably living in a house too big for them. They’re frozen in place because of taxes, top economists say

Nearly 6 million older Americans reside in houses far larger than necessary, while growing families are crammed into spaces that are too small.

27.09.2025 10

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Sinclair reveals that it asked ABC to create a CBS-like ombudsman while backing down on Jimmy Kimmel suspension

Sinclair said that removing Kimmel was free speech itself and it's "inconsistent to champion free speech while demanding that broadcasters air...

26.09.2025 4

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Costco sees more growth for its $31.9 billion real-estate empire and is expanding production of its famous inflation-busting hot dog combo

In 2025, Costco sold over 245 million hot dog combos, over 157 million rotisserie chickens, and “enough bath tissue to reach the moon and back over...

26.09.2025 3

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Scott Bessent tells NYC to ‘drop dead’ while he arranges a $20B swap line for Argentina’s chain-saw-wielding, dog-cloning president

The Treasury Secretary looks at New York and sees a replay of the 1970s. He looks at Trump’s ally in Argentina and sees someone in need of rescue.

26.09.2025 3

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The August home sales mystery: Top analyst says ‘implausible’ housing market data ‘defies credulity’

Pantheon Macroeconomics' Oliver Allen says it's "inexplicable" that new home sales would jump to their highest level in more than three years all of a...

25.09.2025 3

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‘The most distrusted’ bull market and economy of our lifetime: Another head-spinning revision rocks Wall Street

“We agree that the economy is strong and growing," says Northlight's Chris Zaccarelli, "but a lot of that good news is already priced in — and...

25.09.2025 3

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Jerome Powell just rattled markets by calling stocks ‘highly valued.’ BofA finds 19 of 20 key metrics in the S&P 500 are ‘statistically expensive’

And four of these key metrics hit record highs. "Buying stocks at these multiples feels bad," Savita Subramanian says.

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Joe Rogan comes to Jimmy Kimmel’s defense, calling for America to be a ‘community’ with a ‘strong social safety net’—and free speech

“I definitely don’t think that the government should be involved ever in dictating what a comedian can or cannot say in a monologue,” the top...

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Nearly one in 5 Gen Zers is ‘very concerned’ that AI will take their job in the next 2 years, Deutsche Bank says. Boomers and Gen X aren’t bothered

The (American) kids aren't alright.

24.09.2025 2

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Kamala Harris endorses Zohran Mamdani without saying his name: ‘I support the Democrat in this race’

Unlike Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's full-throated endorsements of the favorite to be next New York mayor, the former vice president...

24.09.2025 3

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Ford’s CEO: America is ignoring the ‘essential economy’ as AI eats entry-level white-collar jobs

"There’s more than one way to the American Dream," Ford CEO Jim Farley says.

24.09.2025 9

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Top analyst says the U.S. bull market dates all the way back to the 1980s, and stocks just hit a potentially unsustainable 363% of GDP

It was only 212% at the height of the dotcom bubble, according to calculations by JP Morgan Asset Management's David Kelly.

23.09.2025 2

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The American Dream has a price tag: at least $5 million. And don’t forget that college degree

In the age of the everyday millionaire and the weird economy where everybody's wealthy, the American Dream has been dealing a bad case of some...

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