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Hiring just hit a level not seen since the economy was ‘closed down literally’ during COVID, top economist says
Americans aren’t getting laid off. And they’re not quitting. They’re simply just not getting hired, and the numbers haven’t been this bad since the pandemic closed the economy by force.…
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Trump admin proposes opening 401(k)s to private equity, crypto
The Trump administration on Monday issued a proposed rule to allow retirement plans to offer alternative assets like private equity and cryptocurrencies as part of the investment options in 401(k) accounts.…
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Labor Department’s proposal is a ‘huge step’ for your 401(k), BlackRock’s Nefouse says
A proposed Department of Labor rule could significantly expand what Americans are able to hold inside their retirement accounts, potentially opening the door to assets like cryptocurrency, real estate and…
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Warren Buffett says he stopped talking to Bill Gates over Epstein—and worries he could be called as a witness
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said he has not talked to his longtime friend, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, since he was engulfed in a scandal over his alleged ties to Jeffrey…
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The beauty counter is now on your For You page as Ulta Beauty joins TikTok Shop, betting on the platform reshaping how America consumes
There’s a common adage when it comes to sales: Go where the people are. It seems that’s what Ulta Beauty’s doing after its March 17 launch on TikTok Shop, becoming…
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Tiger Woods had pills in his pocket, bloodshot and glassy eyes, sheriff’s office says
Tiger Woods’ eyes were bloodshot and glassy, his pupils dilated and he had hydrocodone pills in his pocket when interviewed at the scene of his car crash last week in Florida, according…
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2 years after Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a cage match, they were texting about DOGE and a joint OpenAI bid, court records reveal
Mark Zuckerberg texted Elon Musk asking if he could assist him with Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) efforts last year, according to newly released court documents. The newly unredacted filings…
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Two-thirds of parents say their adult Gen Z kids still rely on them financially for support—even though it’s putting them under strain
Gen Zers may be turning their tassels, flying the nest, and securing their first full-time jobs—but many are still bankrolled by mom and dad to stay afloat. Now, it’s leaving…
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Kevin O’Leary says if you earn $68,000 a year and follow this rule, you’ll retire a millionaire
As Americans are barely getting by because of inflation, tariffs, and a cost-of-living crisis, saving for retirement can feel like the priority lowest on the totem pole. But multimillionaire serial…
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Marc Andreessen says AI layoffs are a farce—companies are 75% overstaffed and AI is the ‘silver-bullet excuse’ to clean house
The promise of AI-driven productivity has many employees fearing for their heads. But to Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, the technology is more of a bogeyman,…
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Forget free lunch and nap pods: AI startups are luring workers with soaring salaries—some recent computer science grads are making over $300,000
Silicon Valley’s startup culture has long sold itself on alluring perks: cold brew on tap, nap pods tucked between standing desks, and even free slippers for their “no-shoes” offices. The…
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Markets are nervous, but Main Street isn’t: Wells Fargo CEO flags economic disconnect
Despite a 50% spike in oil prices and an escalating conflict involving Iran, Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf reports a disconnect between market volatility and real-world economic health. “So, separate…
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Delta flight to Atlanta returns to Brazil airport after engine issue
A Delta Air Lines flight bound for Atlanta returned to São Paulo, Brazil, shortly after takeoff Sunday night following an engine issue, according to the airline and local reports. Delta…
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Jamie Dimon says US must ‘finish this thing’ with Iran to protect global economy
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is calling for a decisive end to the conflict with Iran, saying the U.S. must “finish this thing” to protect the global economy and remove…
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New York investment giant Apollo joins headquarters migration to ‘freedom’ states
In another massive blow to high-tax blue states, Apollo Global Management Inc. has announced plans to establish a second U.S. headquarters, scouting locations in Texas and South Florida. The financial…
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Trump’s Iran War Broke Gold’s Safe-Haven Status — Here’s What The Last 50 Years Say Happens Next
Gold is down 13% in March, on track for its steepest monthly decline since October 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and global markets were in freefall. The SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) recorded over $8…
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McCormick combines with Unilever’s food division and adds Hellmann’s and Knorr to its brands
Spice and flavorings company McCormick announced on Tuesday that it’s combining with Unilever’s foods division, which includes household names like Hellmann’s and Knorr. The combined company will maintain McCormick’s name…
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Exclusive: Former Stripe and Coinbase employees raise $8 million for Latitude, a startup whose core product is stablecoin-based ‘Global Payouts’
When a business sends money internationally, the process can be slow and expensive. This is the gap that Latitude aims to fill by helping firms make fast and affordable international…
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Markets cheer as Trump threatens to abandon Iran War, but Jamie Dimon sides with allies: ‘win this thing and clean up the straits’
The stock market ripped Monday morning after the White House signaled it may no longer be America’s job to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The S&P 500 rose more than…
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Washington’s ‘God Squad’ assembles to debate the fate of a rare endangered whale and drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
A U.S. government panel was due to convene Tuesday for the first time since 1992 to consider exempting oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act…
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Meet a professor fed up with AI slop who made her whole class use typewriters instead of computers
The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line. Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps,…
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I was rejected 33 times and built a $390 million company — at 48 years old. Age bias in tech is costing us all
I was 48 years old when I left my job and enrolled in the Entrepreneurial Studies program at Stanford. Most people at that stage of their careers are trying to…
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Amazon robotaxi product lead quits to become the new business operations president for the Florida Panthers
Michael White got a call a few weeks ago from someone in Italy who was offering to provide any insight he could about how the Florida Panthers do business. The…
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Trump’s plan to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico could be foiled by just 50 survivors of a rare whale species
One of the world’s rarest whales lives in only one place: the Gulf of Mexico, where the Trump administration wants to expand oil and gas drilling that scientists fear could push the…
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Democrats in disarray as rank and file clash with Chuck Schumer’s plan to run elderly moderates in must-win races
Democrats’ hopes of reclaiming the U.S. Senate are colliding with a fight within their own party. In Maine, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has thrown his weight behind Gov. Janet Mills in a crucial race, but…
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The supervisor class: how AI agents are remaking the developer’s career
For decades, the image of the software developer has been one of a solitary architect hunched over a glowing integrated development environment (IDE) and terminal, translating complex business logic into…
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Exclusive: Former a16z crypto investor raises $10 million to launch stablecoin clearinghouse Better Money
In the last two years, stablecoins have become one of the hottest fields in crypto—so hot that one venture capitalist at a16z crypto decided to leave and launch his own…
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Current price of oil as of March 31, 2026
As of 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil is trading at $110.69 per barrel, based on the Brent benchmark we’ll explain in a bit. That’s 41 cents below yesterday morning’s…
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Gas prices under Trump just hit a benchmark from the Biden inflation era
U.S. gas prices jumped past an average of $4 a gallon for the first time since 2022 on Tuesday as the Iran war pushed fuel prices to soar worldwide. According…
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America’s Arab allies privately urge America to finish the job in Iran, sources say
Gulf allies of the United States, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are urging President Donald Trump to continue prosecuting the war against Iran, arguing that Tehran hasn’t been weakened enough by the monthlong…
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Why Trump just can’t talk the oil price down—and why markets and Americans are starting to tune him out
As the Iran war intensifies, President Donald Trump has prioritized efforts to calm the financial markets — trying to keep oil prices from exploding upward, stocks from cratering and interest rates from surging. When…
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Iran attacks Gulf, Israeli infrastructure and Trump considers a big strike to wipe out drinking water supplies
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened widespread destruction of Iran’s energy resources and other vital infrastructure, potentially including desalination plants that supply drinking water, if a deal to end the…
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Jerome Powell Sounds Alarm On $39 Trillion ‘Unsustainable’ Debt Path, Says It Will ‘Not End Well’
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell expressed concerns about the fiscal trajectory of the U.S. while addressing the students at Harvard University on Monday. Powell acknowledged that the $39 trillion debt load,…
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The ‘death of SaaS’ could be the best thing to ever happen to SaaS M&A
The software-as-a-service (SaaS) doomer headlines may have peaked in February—but if you check out the dealmaking data, SaaS has been looking alive. For the final quarter of 2025, enterprise SaaS…
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Exclusive: Treeline raises $25 million in Andreessen Horowitz-led funding to streamline IT services with AI
Treeline wants to rebuild corporate IT from the ground up, starting with the everyday headaches most workers barely notice until something breaks. The San Francisco–based startup has raised a $25…
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Blackstone bets on golfer Tommy Fleetwood to win over the world’s wealthiest investors
“World class.” “Consistent.” “Focused relentlessly on performance.” Blackstone President and COO Jon Gray is speaking from his New York office, and you could be forgiven for thinking he’s referring to…
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This billionaire is quietly giving away free college to 800,000 people
Steve Klinsky has spent 25 years building New Mountain Capital into one of private equity’s most respected firms, with $60 billion in assets under management across hundreds of portfolio companies.…
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JetBlue hikes baggage fees by up to $9, citing rising fuel prices amid Iran war
JetBlue is raising baggage fees by $4-$9 for economy passengers, citing increasing jet fuel prices due to global oil supply shortages amid the Iran war. “As we experience rising operating…
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US gas tops $4 a gallon as Iran conflict drives sharp rise in fuel costs
U.S. gasoline prices on Monday topped $4 a gallon nationwide, adding pressure to household budgets as oil markets surge in response to the lingering Iran conflict. Data from GasBuddy showed…
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She was a customer before she was the CFO. Now she’s steering Workiva to $1 billion in revenue
Good morning. When Barbara Larson stepped into the role of EVP and CFO at Workiva in January, she wasn’t entering unfamiliar territory. She had used the company’s financial reporting platform…
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Amazon and Delta partner to launch faster, cheaper in-flight Wi-Fi to flyers
Amazon and Delta Air Lines are partnering up to significantly upgrade the in-flight Wi-Fi experience and eventually give passengers the ability to make video calls at 30,000 feet. The companies’…
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Sycophantic AI tells users they’re right 49% more than humans do, and a Stanford study claims it’s making them worse people
AI models are affirming people’s worst behaviors even when other humans say they’re in the wrong, and users can’t get enough. A new study out of the Stanford computer science…
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JPMorgan Chase launches American Dream Initiative to expand small business support across the US
JPMorgan Chase on Tuesday announced the launch of its American Dream Initiative (ADI), which will invest in communities around the U.S. through several focus areas, including one focused on driving…
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Jamie Dimon says the American Dream is ‘slipping out of reach’ — and JPMorgan is spending billions to fix it
Jamie Dimon has a warning: The American Dream is in trouble. And he’s putting JPMorgan Chase’s money where his mouth is. The bank’s chairman and CEO on Tuesday unveiled the…
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Is Europe too regulated to win the AI race—or ready for a second act?
If someone told you that your current trajectory was taking you toward “slow agony,” you might sit up and take notice. Yet this is exactly the warning many have ignored…
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Olympic champion Eileen Gu’s advice for women seeking her heights of career success: Don’t be a small fish in a big pond, ‘Create your own pond’
In 2025, Olympian Eileen Gu was one of the world’s highest-paid female athletes. Bringing in a reported $23.1 million, she was in the top five, she confirms with a wink.…
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Congress is violating the Constitution—and a $39 trillion debt is the proof
Most Americans can’t pass the U.S. citizenship test. Surveys put that number at roughly two in three. What’s more alarming: most Members of Congress are barely more informed about the…
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Nordstrom’s $6.25 billion deal to go private is paying off—and don’t expect an IPO anytime soon
When Nordstrom went private last year, the move was seen by industry analysts as a way to let the founding family make the changes needed to rejuvenate its sagging department…
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Is the org chart dead in the age of AI? LinkedIn’s chief economic opportunity officer thinks so
The humble org chart isn’t usually blamed for holding back innovation. But as companies push their employees to adopt AI, LinkedIn executive Aneesh Raman thinks the relationships that structure most…
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The federal government shed 385,000 employees last year. Now the Trump administration is on a blitz to hire Gen Z workers
A year after firing thousands of probationary employees, the Trump administration indicated it needs more early-career workers to sustain the federal workforce. “We’ve got close to half of our population…
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