The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) has a ticker on its website: The Retirement Trust Fund Countdown. At the time of writing, it stands at six years, seven months, five days, seven hours, 28 minutes, and eleven seconds.…
With baby Arthur too young for the measles vaccine and a sibling due in June, the Otwells grew nervous when the threat of the highly contagious virus started factoring into their grocery run. “We go to the Costco that was kind of a hotbed,”…
The warning signs were there two decades ago—long before ChatGPT, long before anyone worried about a robot taking their job. Around 2005, something quietly shifted in the American labor market. College degrees kept multiplying. Good jobs did not. “This is…
Good morning. CEOs depend on their CFOs more than ever. And fear them more than ever, too. Under mounting pressure from nearly every direction, many chief executives now view their closest strategic partner as a potential threat to their job…
Oil rose marginally to $97 per barrel this morning. S&P 500 futures were flat before the open in New York. The index closed up 0.62% yesterday. Asia was up strongly today: Japan’s Nikkei 225 rose 1.84%, China’s CSI 300 gained…
Good morning. I’ve been calling defense contractors, consultants and people who work or have worked in the military this week to get reaction to Trump increasing military spending by more than 40% in his proposed 2027 budget. I didn’t expect…
When McPherson Middle School in central Kansas banned cell phones in school four years ago, they didn’t reconsider their school-issued Google Chromebooks that were actively being used in the classroom and at home. It wasn’t until December of last year…
Most actors arrive in Hollywood with nothing but a headshot and a tolerance for instant noodles. Eva Longoria arrived with one rule: her dreams would not come at the expense of her bank account. Before she became a multimillionaire TV…
Allegra Driscoll, the chief technology officer of Bread Financial, has a few ground rules when engaging with software vendors about generative AI capabilities. No agreements beyond one year, given the rapid pace of change. There will be times when she’ll…
Between faulty Outlook headaches and a toilet on the fritz that releases … well, gas into the air, the astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II mission may be feeling as if they’re spread a little thin, but that hasn’t stopped them…