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Princeton’s ‘AI Snake Oil’ author says the real fear isn’t thinking machines—it’s that AI exposes who already knows how to think

Princeton's Arvind Narayanan says his students are "in a bind." How much should they use AI versus resist it to build up their own skills?

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Top economist on Trump’s ‘deadly cocktail’ for the bond market—and how the bond vigilantes have crossed Scott Bessent’s ‘red line’

"The bond vigilantes have come out of hibernation," Johns Hopkins' Steve Hanke told Fortune, and "the inflation genie is out of the bottle."

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Exclusive: Accounting AI startup Rillet reaches unicorn status with $1 billion valuation. Its founder says he wants to give CFOs back their weekends

"Our message is not that we're coming after jobs," Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp told Fortune. "That's just not correct."

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Financial adulthood has moved to the 30s: ‘the decade when people come to terms with where they are in life’

Older millennials bear the scars of 2008. Younger ones face an equally unforgiving—but differently broken—economy.

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There isn’t just one AI bubble, strategist says — there’s a ‘rolling sequence of bubbles’ instead

What if there isn't just one AI bubble, but a whole sequence of them?

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Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu says AI and liberal democracy share the same crisis: ‘there is a tendency to escalate everything’

"It's become sort of radical to hold two apparently conflicting ideas in your head at the same time," the MIT economist told Fortune.

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The gilded cage: Why Gen Z’s favorite escape is the era that looks most like now

Tradwives, old money, homesteading, even bird watching. Why does Gen Z want to turn the clock back 100 years?

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Over 400% of GDP: top analyst finds corporate equity double the level from the dotcom bubble — and triple 1987’s Black Monday

How high can markets get?

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Social Security is celebrating its 91st birthday. It won’t live to 100, watchdog warns

"Social Security won’t make it past age 97 as things currently stand," said the CRFB's Maya Macguineas. "At least not in its current form."

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Only 12% of family businesses stay in the family by the third generation. A Goldman Sachs chairman says optimism is the reason

François-Xavier de Mallmann steers Goldman's relationships with many of the world's largest family-controlled enterprises.

13.08.2026 4

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‘A prisoner can oppose incarceration while remaining confined’: The paradox of Gen Z, capitalism, and consumption

Every generation flirts with anti-capitalism when it’s young, but has something broken down along the way?

11.08.2026 3

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Trump’s $200 billion tariff hit swells budget deficit to $2.1 trillion for 2026, CBO confirms

A major tool for deficit reduction—Trump’s IEEPA tariff regime—is unconstitutional.

10.08.2026 4

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Meet the 33-year-old CEO betting on boomers chasing their grandkids—and millennials selling their first house

"Consumers are starved for better tools to help make one of the biggest financial decisions of their life," says Kelley Blue Book Homes CEO John Liss.

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Bill Ackman agrees with Jeff Bezos: Being a great CEO can do more for the world than philanthropy

The hedge fund billionaire has been a philanthropist for 20 years and told Fortune that it's "vastly less efficient at solving problems than...

07.08.2026 4

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Top economists on ‘unexpected turbulence’ in the U.S. jobs market — the plane is coming in low and hitting a rough patch

Gen Z unemployment — workers 20 to 24 without prior experience — is a barely improved 242,000. It's the highest unemployment for recent grads...

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Exclusive: Kalshi launches ‘Blanket’ to help small businesses hedge against risk—with help from the guru of ‘hypergamblification’

Lauris Zminsky says "a lot of young people are embracing lottery-ticket economics" — but his new project with Kalshi is totally separate from that.

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Exclusive: Goldman CEO David Solomon on how his dad’s advice shaped his career—and why interns should steal it

In a town hall with summer interns, shared exclusively with Fortune, Solomon got real about AI: "You have to challenge what the models give you."

06.08.2026 4

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‘Socialism is a disaster’: Bill Ackman says Zohran Mamdani’s bad left-wing housing policy is worsening New York’s affordability crisis

"Left-wing mayors have made it very difficult for developers to build here," Ackman told Fortune. He highlighted Ken Griffin as a key example.

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Gen Z’s anti-capitalist brand says one thing. Its spending data says something more interesting

K shape, what K shape? Everyone in Gen Z is spending money in this economy, regardless of income.

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Ray Dalio on the AI bubble nearing 1929, 2000 levels and the lesson people always forget: ‘wealth is not the same as money’

"You see a lot of people getting wealthy but you can't spend the wealth," the Bridgewater Associates founder told Diary of a CEO.

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Wall Street’s bulls are starting to admit the earnings bubble is real — and the 60/40 portfolio may be the first casualty

Goldman's chief global equity strategist Peter Oppenheimer said "there does not appear to be a valuation bubble, but there may be an earnings bubble."

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‘A fantastic amount of money to have borrowed’: a top Wall Street wealth advisor is stunned by the national debt

"I'm most focused on the fiscal situation in this country," Rockefeller Capital Management's Greg Fleming told David Rubenstein.

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‘It’s really not for the faint of heart’: This 29-year-old CEO became a business owner, doubled revenue in 3 years, and learned what car not to drive

Lucas Philips became a CEO at 26 and now finds himself getting up at 4:30 am to commute from Manhattan to Newark. He doesn't have a foosball table.

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‘Retiring backwards’: How cold economic reality forced Gen X into something like the reverse of baby boomers’ golden years

Time to get the band back together and get on the skateboard. It's a retirement plan from a thrift store.

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Fed study: AI’s slow productivity story fits a century-old historical pattern

Researchers at the St. Louis Fed looked through 490,000 earnings calls and saw AI productivity surged—but only in talk.

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Millennials say they’ll refuse to care for aging Boomer parents—but they’ll be forced to as their inheritance shrinks to 40 cents on the dollar

The oldest Boomers are starting to turn 80, but the Great Wealth Transfer isn't materializing as promised.

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Microsoft’s $480 billion rally fuels a debate: Financial nihilism or the true AI moat finally coming into view?

The market seems to be in a “rip up the script every day” kind of mode, Steve Sosnick of Interactive Brokers told Fortune. Unless that changes...

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Nearly a third of workers admit to sabotaging their company’s AI—and smaller paychecks may explain why

As surveys document quiet resistance and outright sabotage, Apollo's Torsten Slok offers a theory: AI is compressing wages while leaving job counts...

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Samsung posts record $62 billion profit — and investors sell off anyway

South Korean technology giant Electronics on Thursday reported a record operating profit of 89.5 trillion won ($62 billion) for the April-June period,...

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How Washington’s war on ‘Wall Street landlords’ could backfire on Gen Z renters

John Burns Research and Consulting dubbed it the "Rental Inflation Bill," while ResiClub's Lance Lambert says some landlords are reluctant to get...

30.07.2026 6

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‘Am I paying for the vibes?’ Gen Z says it hates capitalism, but their spending patterns show they just don’t like being ripped off

They'll wait in line for TikTok's hype, but they want the receipts from Yelp before they commit.

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Hollywood’s ‘memory moment’: How Spider-Man vs. The Odyssey is driving the box office’s best summer since the pandemic

With the box office tracking to its first $10 billion year since the pandemic, Tom Holland and Zendaya (and Jon Bernthal) find themselves in rare...

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Trump’s dollar déjà vu: what an uncanny chart about the greenback shows about American exceptionalism

"It's the exact same pattern," LPL Financial's Adam Turnquist told Fortune. "Last week, I started refreshing data and here it is."

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Fauci accuses Rand Paul of ‘unhinged obsession,’ pleads Fifth at least 100 times on Covid origins despite full Biden pardon

Fauci's attorney was also removed from the room after he tried to speak without being recognized.

29.07.2026 5

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Foreign buyers seem to be following Zohran Mamdani’s cue — and fleeing American real estate

Foreign homebuying is near record lows, National Association of Realtors data reveals, and New York isn't even in the top five anymore.

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LeBron James joins California’s billionaire exodus, but he may not escape the wealth tax

As California billionaires flee to Florida or fund the fight against Prop 40, LeBron's decision adds a new wrinkle to the tax reckoning.

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Foreign buyers seem to be following Zohran Mamdani’s cue — and fleeing American real estate

Foreign homebuying is near record lows, National Association of Realtors data reveals, and New York isn't even in the top five anymore.

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The brutal math behind Gen Z’s lonely weekends: $15 drinks are driving a generational ‘spending hangover’

It's a "high intent, low budget" generation, the Harris Poll's Libby Rodney told Fortune. "We call it placing financial regret over FOMO."

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Why did a $154 billion CEO just endorse stripping most Americans of voting rights—and taking us back to the 19th century?

Should how much you pay in taxes determine how much your vote counts? Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke seems to think so.

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One-third of Seattle’s downtown is empty: Here’s how America’s boomtown turned into one of the toughest places to find a job

What exactly has happened to work in the Emerald City?

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China is using the steel playbook on AI — and America’s tech billionaires are standing in the blast zone

Scott Galloway thinks it's "modern-day steel dumping." Here's a look at what he means.

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AI and the ‘skinny hamburger, fat bun’ problem — why the future of work needs to look more like a pizza

Yahoo Finance GM George Leimer led the development of a new investing product, AlphaSpace, and his team has shipped over 100 new features in two...

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McKinsey: Global households got $40 trillion richer in 2025 as the paper wealth economy swelled to $1.8 quadrillion

That's right, quadrillion with a "Q."

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The millennial generation is split in 2: an older crowd with boomer-style comfort, a younger set going ‘back to the early 1900s’

NAR deputy chief economist Jessica Lautz sees us going back toward "an older way of living," but only some of us.

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Anthropic’s head of economics just explained why we haven’t seen a white-collar bloodbath — yet

We've been hearing about doomsday, but Peter McCrory writes we "don’t see significant impact of AI on the U.S. labor market."

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The AI boom’s hidden electricity bill — and why you’re paying it

"The current system lacks adequate mechanisms," Moody's wrote in a report on PJM, the largest power grid operator in the U.S.

24.07.2026 7

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‘You just hired a million bad employees’: How the brief tokenmaxxing era delivered the opposite of what it promised

One exec privately estimated that token spend went from $20k in December to $1 million in July. "We're not throttling back, we don't want people to...

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American homicides on track for lowest level in more than a century: ‘one of the most significant public safety developments in decades’

For some reason, murders are surging in Norfolk, Virginia (64%), and San Francisco (55%).

23.07.2026 8

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Trump dismissed affordability as a word ‘made up by the Democrats’ and promised oil would come ‘tumbling down’—then it hit $100 a barrel

At in his rally, Trump admitted "you may be paying a little bit more" and pleaded for more time, while saying the Iranians "break every deal they...

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‘The man who dies rich dies disgraced’: The last time America had such wealth inequality, Andrew Carnegie knew he had to give it all away

Peter Thiel has called the Giving Pledge an "Epstein-adjacent fake boomer club," but even that Gates and Buffett initiative fails Carnegie's test.

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