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.
EconomyTop housing exec rips Americans who ‘want things that we don’t want to pay for’ and neglect the blue-collar trades at our peril
By Nick LichtenbergNovember 7, 2025
Real EstateThe housing affordability crisis is so bad that the average American first-time homebuyer is 40 years old
By Nick LichtenbergNovember 7, 2025
Real EstateTrump’s housing chief calls Jerome Powell a ‘maniac’ who is ‘deranged,’ arguing high mortgage rates are ‘really hurting people’
By Nick LichtenbergNovember 7, 2025
HealthTrump punches new $35 billion hole in national debt with deal for Medicare to cover your Ozempic
By Nick LichtenbergNovember 6, 2025
PoliticsSilicon Valley billionaire, reeling from Zohran Mamdani’s victory, turns back the clock to Peter Thiel’s 2020 warning about the appeal of socialism
By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez and Nick LichtenbergNovember 6, 2025
SuccessAn apology to Gen Z, from the Harvard scholar behind ‘Bowling Alone’ book: ‘You didn’t cause the problem, we caused this problem’
By Nick LichtenbergNovember 6, 2025
HealthGen Z’s brains are ‘growing around their phones’ the way a tree warps around a tombstone, ‘Anxious Generation’ author warns
By Nick LichtenbergNovember 6, 2025
InvestingA top analyst warned of a ‘prisoner’s dilemma’ and ‘AI wobble’ in the stock market just days before Palantir seemed to confirm everyone’s fears
By Nick LichtenbergNovember 5, 2025
EconomyCorporate America is trying to tell us something about the economy, top analyst says: A 3-year recession for ‘much of the private economy’ ended in April
By Nick LichtenbergNovember 5, 2025
By Nick LichtenbergNovember 4, 2025
Real EstateA risky mortgage instrument that helped spark the Global Financial Crisis is on the rise again. It’s a gamble on the Fed’s future direction
By Nick LichtenbergNovember 4, 2025
EconomyTrump’s tariff revenue is soaring off a ‘significant increase,’ budget watchdog says—but the $38 trillion national debt still looms
By Nick LichtenbergNovember 4, 2025
PoliticsDick Cheney, former Vice President and trailblazer of ‘unitary executive theory,’ dies at 84
By Calvin Woodward, Nick Lichtenberg and The Associated PressNovember 4, 2025
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