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Nick Lichtenberg__Business Insider |
Soft palettes, nostalgic spending, and what America's newest aesthetic obsession reveals about the economy underneath.
Four generations have four different "generational contracts," research from O.C. Tanner found. It comes down to a question of belief in the system.
If you were a student right now, what major would you choose?
Two mega-events, record ratings, and billions in broadcast rights: the collision that will reshape sports media for a generation.
Exec from Okta, IBM, FedEx Freight and BCG on the issue with flawed systems and their flawed designers still being around: "We just don't think that...
When hundreds of Stanford graduates walked out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Vinod Khosla didn't hold back about the students at his alma mater.
My inbox called Millennials whiny. The Federal Reserve, a field of social scientists and Aristotle disagree.
Boris Cherny was asked at Brainstorm Tech if he was concerned about the rapid progress of AI: "Yes."
In Brazil, home of soccer-mad fans and the five-time world champions, the only way to watch all 104 games of the World Cup will be through a streaming...
Goldman Sachs' top private markets executives say the industry is at a structural inflection point — not a crisis. Not everyone agrees.
As AI data centers strain the grid, GM wants to turn its EVs and batteries into a solution. Ford has a simpler plan—and the two Detroit rivals are...
The fight over a trust is a grim preview of what happens when the largest inheritance in history runs into a family at war.
Trustees now project the retirement fund will be depleted in 2032 and the combined system in 2034, putting pressure on the 2026 Senate class to act.
Stacker CEO Noah Greenberg helps "brand journalists" distribute their content into newsrooms and platforms across the media. But is it journalism?
A paper from Amazon Web Services warns that unsupervised agents tend to reason themselves into trouble.
It's harder to get a Goldman Sachs internship than to get accepted into Harvard, MIT or Stanford.
The Nasdaq's sudden lurch lower on Friday looked like a crack in a story that had seemed, until recently, almost bulletproof.
They followed the script—work hard, buy a house, save for retirement. Now millions of boomers feel trapped
"You make them a partnership in this revolution," Trump told reporters Friday. "It would be a beautiful thing."
There's no doubt that 172,000 payrolls added in May blew past expectations. But you have to look closely at where they were added.
Jim Covello has been Wall Street's most consistent voice of AI doubt. Two years on, he asks:"when does the short term become the long term?"
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent once called Trump Accounts a "back door for privatizing Social Security," but now insists retirees will face no loss...
Swift's fans pay with wallets. World Cup hosts pay with budgets.
"Affordability is a key voter issue, but proposals to fix structural supply shortages are politically unpopular and lack short-term payoffs."
Bessent vowed, "the senior citizen does not not pay more taxes and the senior citizen does not get less benefits." Meanwhile the trust fund is going...
He's not alone. Apollo Global Management Chief Economist Torsten Slok thinks we're living through an "industrial renaissance."
The Bridgewater Associates founder compared the situation to "plaque in the circulatory system, squeezing out the flow of blood."
The JPMorgan CEO sees something funny going on with borrowed money: "Corporations, it's just not all automatically, they're all geniuses all of a...
"I am not the most optimistic person," Dr. Deepika Chopra told Fortune. But that's different from understanding how optimism works.
Dennis Woodside sold Motorola to Lenovo—and accidentally sold himself out of a job. Now he runs a $2.65 billion software company.
The execs behind your seamless online orders have survived COVID, mass reorgs and years of nonstop disruption. Now AI wants them to reinvent...
For the operators running America's most complex supply chains, disruption isn't a problem to solve anymore. It's a condition to survive.
Justina Nixon-Saintil has reached 22 million learners. With three years left on her mission, she says the real challenge is only now coming into...
Peloton COO Charles Kirol spent decades commanding nuclear submarines. Now he's using that same playbook to rebuild from the ground up.
Bob Bradway bet on AI before almost anyone else in biotech. Now Amgen is reaping the rewards — and wrestling with what it means for its scientists.
Okta's COO named his agents and put them in business reviews. Lattice's CEO says that's exactly the wrong move — and new research backs her up.
"One year later," Andon Labs co-founder Lukas Petersson told Fortune about Vendo, "it's just like, I don't actually think humans can do much better."
For 30 years, soccer has been "the sport of the future." Could a World Cup on home soil and an AI-powered talent revolution make it the sport of now?
Liaquat Ahamed, whose "Lords of Finance" redefined the Great Depression, says America's debt crisis has a clear historical precedent.
They work full-time, play by the rules and they still raid their retirement savings. The Roosevelt Institute looks at America's economically betrayed.
Real income growth has slowed to a pace "rarely seen outside of recession," Goldman Sachs warns — and Americans are only beginning to feel the...
The transition from workforce to work planning — budgeting for both "human workers and digital workers," is breaking people's brains, Eric Kelleher...
The race to make the smartest possible AI that can do the most things will "lead to things that aren't nice beings towards us," Geofrey Hinton said.
Crisis24 President Sid Kosaraju said hackers at his firm were able to pinpoint his daughter's activity. "They could get into the school website."
The executives responsible for keeping the world's biggest companies running thought AI would simplify their jobs. They were wrong.
Goldman has good news on the AI job-killing story, until you look closely at the numbers.
For years, the playbook was clear: don't stay too long, always negotiate your next move, loyalty is for suckers. It hits different in "low-hire,...
Axiom Math, a $1.6B AI unicorn, is building a formally verified library of economic theorems — and already found gaps in the foundations of...
Citi finds AI use jumped to 22% from 13% in a year, even as principals warn data privacy is “non-negotiable” and fear back-door exposure via SaaS...
"I apologize for not dying soon enough for you," one boomer wrote to me, "so your generation can pick over my financial bones."