Nick Lichtenberg is Business Editor at Fortune, responsible for reporting and editing a mix of breaking news and digital features. This includes stories developed with the assistance of artificial intelligence, filed under Fortune Intelligence, as well as commentary submissions and book excerpts. Nick was formerly Fortune's executive editor of global news. Prior to Fortune, he was a deputy editor at Business Insider covering the economy, wealth, and real estate, and a breaking news editor at Bloomberg covering corporate news and equities markets.
EconomyEconomists agree: You’re not crazy for feeling like the rich get richer, and the poor are doing worse. Welcome to the ‘K-shaped economy’
By Sasha Rogelberg, Eva Roytburg and Nick LichtenbergMarch 20, 2026
PoliticsJack Schlossberg on why Democrats lost young men to Trump—and it starts with the reason he quit the Biden campaign
By Nick LichtenbergMarch 19, 2026
By Nick LichtenbergMarch 19, 2026
Economy‘We’re living on borrowed time’: As national debt hits $39 trillion, a top diplomat warns of a crisis America isn’t ready for
By Nick LichtenbergMarch 19, 2026
By Nick LichtenbergMarch 18, 2026
CybersecurityEvery Fortune 500 CEO’s nightmare: the Iran war and the Pandora’s Box of AI cyber warfare
By Nick LichtenbergMarch 18, 2026
Personal Finance$39 trillion national debt is ‘an embarrassing milestone,’ think tank says. ‘Clearly headed in the wrong direction’
By Nick LichtenbergMarch 18, 2026
InvestingStocks haven’t hit bottom yet, says the analyst who called a ‘rolling recession’ when everyone else saw a boom
By Nick LichtenbergMarch 17, 2026
By Nick LichtenbergMarch 17, 2026
PoliticsTrump’s ‘Art of the Deal’ can’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz—and it’s threatening a recession
By Nick LichtenbergMarch 16, 2026
EconomyRay Dalio sees a pattern that shows China killing America’s economy. This 2,000-year chart explains why
By Nick LichtenbergMarch 16, 2026
EconomyA ‘debt spiral’ before a fiscal crisis: Interest on the national debt will be growing faster than GDP in just 5 years, think tank warns
By Nick LichtenbergMarch 16, 2026
InvestingScott Bessent just defined market panic—and accidentally diagnosed the biggest problem with AI
By Nick LichtenbergMarch 16, 2026
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