Young audiences turned out in droves to movie theaters around the country this weekend. It wasn’t for the big budget “Star Wars” movie, “The Mandalorian and Grogu, ” which fell sharply in its second weekend, however, but for a small budget horror from a…
Stocks continue notching record high after record high as the AI boom overwhelms fears about the global oil shock, but markets are doing it without a long-implied safety net. That’s according to Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser at Allianz and…
President Donald Trump, from a toss-up congressional district in New York on Friday, began testing his midterm message that was ostensibly on the economy. But he veered off-topic right from the start, going off on tangents about voter identification, crime in…
The fear stalking the consulting industry right now comes in two flavors. The first is that AI can’t be trusted — that the same tools promising to transform client work will confidently produce wrong answers, expose firms to liability, and…
Being laid off, fired, or ousted from a high-powered company can feel career-ending. But for some, it’s a springboard for success. Mexican-American real estate mogul Fernando De Leon tossed the towel on his Goldman Sachs job after being told that…
Two curious things are happening to the economy in 2026. On one hand, economic expansion is still going strong despite job growth slowing to a trickle, suggesting productivity among those currently employed is rising. But by many measures, productivity growth…
Russia and China are amping up their espionage on Western nations, and there is a “narrowing window for the U.K. and allies to stay ahead,” according to Britain’s spy chief. In a rare speech Wednesday at Bletchley Park, an estate…
It’s easy to look at the child of a celebrity or power couple and see the leg up their family’s wealth, power, and connections got them in their own separate venture or company. And it’s even easier to label them…
The federal government already spends more on debt interest than on Medicaid, national defense, or all non-defense discretionary programs combined. Now, with the 30-year Treasury yield surging past 5.19% — its highest level in almost 20 years — a leading…
For years, American workers have racked up trend names for the various ways they’ve checked out of corporate life. There was “quiet quitting,” then “bare minimum Mondays,” and more recently the “date them till you hate them” trend, in which…