Most people think they are open-minded and would like others to perceive them as such. But for the things that matter most – religious beliefs, for example, or the meaning of life – few of us are genuinely willing to…
While visiting family in St. Petersburg, Florida, in November 2024, I found myself walking down a quiet residential street in Shore Acres, a low-lying, bayfront neighborhood not far from where I grew up. Two months earlier, Hurricane Helene had sent…
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate ticked up this week to just below its high for the year, the latest sign that borrowing costs on home loans remain elevated relative to where they were before the war with Iran started. The benchmark…
Catapulted by the market debut of his rocket company SpaceX, Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire by the end of the day. That level of wealth, all owned by just one person, was once unfathomable. Before Friday, the trillion dollar mark was…
On Sunday (14 June), Switzerland is set to decide whether the country should implement the world’s first population cap. The divisive proposal, which is supported by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), has been pitched as a “sustainability initiative” aimed at limiting population growth and…
At 8:50 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil was priced at $89.94 per barrel with Brent serving as the benchmark (we’ll explain different benchmarks later in this article). That’s a drop of $5.21 compared with yesterday morning—but more than $19 higher…
Good morning. Elon Musk is the face of SpaceX but behind the scenes, Bret Johnsen has spent more than a decade turning Musk’s ambitions into a financial story investors can underwrite. Johnsen joined as CFO in 2011 after senior finance…
In the conversation about where American business is heading next, Fort Lauderdale offers a quieter but equally compelling answer. The city isn’t chasing the spotlight. It has become a destination for long-term investment on its own terms. While the headline-making cities…
The stock market in New York will open at 9.30 a.m. local time as usual today and then, a few hours later, shares in Elon Musk’s SpaceX will begin trading publicly, starting at an offer price of $135 per share.…
With software platforms racing to roll out AI features, Notion—the all-in-one productivity and workplace platform that gained a global cult following during the COVID pandemic—is betting that restraint will be a more successful design strategy. “You can’t have every new…