Meet the 18-year-old junk remover who vibe-coded his own pricing calculator and makes up to $15,000 a month
Carter Grandbois' first job paid $500 for 30 minutes of work. "That was kind of an eye-opener." He's part of a movement…
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‘I had no one to bird with who wasn’t 20 years older than me’: Meet the Gen Zers who transformed grandma’s hobby into an analog craze
“Bird watching, I think, used to be sort of a very, very niche thing, and now it is a cool thing,” eBird director…
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The CEO of $1.2 billion learning platform Preply says it all started with his online search for an English tutor
Kirill Bigai, the cofounder and CEO of learning platform Preply, had to take on a consulting gig while getting paid…
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OTC Markets CEO: 250 years of market history just collided with a new SEC rule
If the SEC reform is finalized, growth-stage companies relying on discounted, dilutive private placements will gain a…
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American billionaires are showing off their farmland for elaborate hobbies, but a buying spree among the ultrarich risks pricing farmers out
Mark Zuckerberg and Alexis Ohanian have become amateur yeoman, but other one-percenters may be putting actual farmers…
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Women want ‘dads,’ not ‘duds’: A Nobel-winning historian has a theory for falling birthrates, but the economics aren’t so straightforward
"The more that men can credibly signal they will be dependable ' dads' and not disappointing 'duds,' the more…
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Mark Walter’s sports empire offers a glimpse of the money machine behind private credit—and the plumbing keeping it together
Where did the money come from for Walter to buy the Dodgers, Lakers and Chelsea FC? And what does it have to do with…
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SpaceX is hiring in natural gas trading for energy needs
SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket uses super-chilled methane — the primary ingredient in natural gas — combined with…
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Humanoid Chinese robots are smashing running records set by humans — including Usain Bolt’s sprint
At a 100-meter sprint, a humanoid robot achieved a result of 9.39 seconds, beating the human record of 9.58 seconds set…
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Venezuela abandoning the bolivar and adopting the U.S. dollar would be the biggest currency switch since the advent of the euro, Hanke says
“Taming inflation is the key to restoring stability in Venezuela, and all the other progress flows from that.”
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‘You’re at war when you get attacked’ — Canada’s Mark Carney accuses U.S. of using economic integration as a weapon as trade fight spurs tariff hikes
U.S. will impose 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, and Canada set Sept. 8 as the start of its…
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Canada demand for trucks tariff relief imperiled trade talks
But one Canadian industry official said it was the Americans who tried to divide the industry.
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Nvidia customers notified about AI-related price hikes above 15%
The price hikes will go into effect on systems shipped early next year and will impact systems including those with the…
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Trump’s stock disclosure shows more than 1,000 trades in June
The transactions totaled between $78.1 million and $263.1 million in the filing published by the US Office of…
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Forget AI, debt has become the main character on Wall Street as markets just now decided that it’s gotten out of control after years of warnings
"When does debt become unsustainable? When the global financial markets say it is. That appears to be happening."
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Even billionaires are worried their Gen Z kids can’t keep a job—and their wealth advisors say the fear is ‘very real’
It’s a “very real concern” for the ultrawealthy that their children aren’t prepared for the future, wealth advisor Tom…
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‘We will not endure’ — Top Iranian leaders signal they are running out of time as economy crumbles ahead of Trump’s next sanctions onslaught
"As someone who has experienced war, we understand the true value of peace."
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Jeff Bezos wants the bottom half of earners to pay zero income tax—he says nurses making just $75K should save $12K a year
Billionaire Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, says the bottom 50% of Americans should pay no federal income tax—and he plans…
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$25 billion CEO says one-hour interviews are a waste of time—he puts candidates through six hours of tests and wants them to order wine at lunch
Steve Jobs had his beer test. Bupa's CEO has a six-hour interview process—and what drink you order at lunch tells him…
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‘This is a money-losing proposition for most of these individuals’: Americans are draining stock portfolios to shovel more money into sports betting
Amid the growing lure of sports betting, Gen Z men in particular face a growing risk of financial disaster, experts say.
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Abdul El-Sayed used Mamdani’s social media playbook to overcome a 9:1 spending deficit. Now he’s facing slander about 9/11
Some of Abdul El-Sayed's music-video-style social ads were made by the same agency behind Zohran Mamdani's campaign.
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90% of executives say AI hasn’t boosted productivity. Some are still cutting jobs
Management's optimism about AI has no measurable link to productivity — but layoffs tied to AI announcements do.
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Trump says oil companies are ‘making too much money.’ Their own balance sheets agree
Wood Mackenzie finds the industry is sitting on $272 billion in war-driven windfall cash without boosting investment,…
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TikTok settles children’s privacy suit with DOJ for $400 million
The DOJ calls it a "major victory," but ByteDance is projected to earn $50 billion this year — and the U.S. never…
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Meet the Florida architect who lost his roof at 12 — and now builds for the next Andrew
Jeffrey Huber spent a year in a trailer after Hurricane Andrew. Now his elevated Miami Beach housing is built to…
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Trump remakes Rose Garden with loans from secret Supreme Court megadonor Harlan Crow
The statues are part of Trump’s sweeping series of White House renovations, from his gilded makeover of the Oval Office…
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Food stamp enrollment plunges as Trump’s demand for more paperwork pushes poor people off the rolls
Arizona cut 400,000 people, more than 50%, from SNAP benefits, citing "unprecedented call volumes and administrative…
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U.S. to allow limited livestock imports from Mexico as outbreak from flesh-eating screwworm parasite eases, but total eradication will take time
The U.S. is set to resume livestock imports from Mexico beginning Aug. 24 at the Douglas, Arizona, border crossing.
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Harvard to pay $53 million after former morgue manager sold body parts on black market
A court found Harvard acted in bad faith overseeing its morgue before it agreed to pay families of donors whose remains…
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‘The U.S. is not the only game in town anymore’ — Treasury debt faces more competition from higher-yielding bonds overseas than in recent decades
Yields on U.K. bonds have reached 5.81%, and German bonds are also paying 3.76%, versus 5.27% for a comparable U.S.…
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U.S. hits Canada with 50% tariffs, invoking a notorious Great Depression law that has never been used before to impose import taxes
The import taxes will hit about 5% of what Canada ships to the United States every year, including products ranging…
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I helped turn a California bank into one of America’s fastest-growing. Now I’m building a company to serve the people that banking has failed
The financial system was built for a world where everyone had one employer and a paycheck that landed every two weeks.…
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Meet the sisters who got dumped by their landlords and were down to their last £15,000 before they built an £8 million business
“There were a lot of tears,” Annabel Lui said, recalling that she and her sister talked for 15 hours about what to do.…
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AI’s Three-Body Problem: no single force can dictate the outcome
OpenAI and Anthropic are one body, China's open-weight models are another, and then there are the application companies…
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America has a $172 billion child care problem. Investors are overlooking part of the solution
America has spent years debating the cost of child care while millions of families continue competing for a limited…
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This CEO was out to dinner when he caught his AI agent wasting $1,000 in tokens. He says ‘insecurity’ is a bigger problem
"A thousand is not that much, I would say, but for one weekend, it's pretty annoying," Maxio CEO Branden Jenkins told…
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