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.
AIGates Foundation, OpenAI unveil $50 million ‘Horizon 1000’ initiative to boost health care in Africa through AI
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 21, 2026
Arts & EntertainmentGen Z’s nostalgia for ‘2016 vibes’ reveals something deeper: a protest against the world and economy they inherited
By Nick Lichtenberg and Eva RoytburgJanuary 20, 2026
EconomyTrump added $2.25 trillion to the national debt in his first year back in charge, watchdog says
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 20, 2026
C-SuitePwC’s global chairman says most leaders have forgotten ‘the basics’ as new research shows 56% are still getting ‘nothing’ out of AI adoption
By Diane Brady and Nick LichtenbergJanuary 19, 2026
BankingGoldman investment banking co-head Kim Posnett on the year ahead, from an IPO ‘mega-cycle’ to another big year for M&A to AI’s ‘horizontal disruption’
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 19, 2026
EconomyThis Harvard professor spent 8 years traveling the world researching the secret history of capitalism and how ‘marginal’ and ‘weak’ it used to be
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 18, 2026
EconomyMaking billionaires illegal by taxing their wealth wouldn’t even fund the government for a year, budget expert says
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 17, 2026
PoliticsAs Trump throws a bone to Gen Z on student debt, watchdog calls it an ‘incoherent political giveaway,’ straight out of Biden’s playbook
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 16, 2026
PoliticsThe Nobel Prize committee doesn’t want Trump getting one, even as a gift—but they treated Obama very differently
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 16, 2026
PoliticsAnthony Scaramucci thinks Trump’s ‘hard-left’ move to cap credit-card fees is because he’s ‘texting back and forth with Mayor Mamdani’
By Nick Lichtenberg and Eva RoytburgJanuary 16, 2026
Banking‘We are Jerome Powell’: Gen Z finds an unlikely meme hero in the Fed chair via AI songs and fan edits
By Eva Roytburg and Nick LichtenbergJanuary 16, 2026
AIIn the AI economy, the ‘weirdness premium’ will set you apart. Lean into it, says expert on tech change economics
By Jake Angelo and Nick LichtenbergJanuary 16, 2026
Personal FinanceGavin Newsom literally started his career with funding from a billionaire, but he was also raised by a single mother with 3 jobs
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 15, 2026
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