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gas
The $100 oil shock is hitting the middle class like a margin call

As gas tops $4 a gallon, Wall Street debates inflation. But middle-class families and female breadwinners are absorbing the shock with little margin left.

By Katica RoyApril 21, 2026
trump
What happens if nothing is done to fix Social Security by 2032?
By Martha SheddenApril 21, 2026
ternus
This Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: Tim Cook is leaving at a peak and John Ternus is exactly the right CEO for the AI era
By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven TianApril 20, 2026
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Trump has already endorsed the Monroe Doctrine. Now he needs to endorse the Truman Doctrine
By Robert HormatsApril 18, 2026
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The U.S. has a $282 billion trade surplus you’ve never heard of — and it’s at risk
By Josh KallmerApril 19, 2026
benioff
AI’s next act: how Salesforce is turning efficiency gains into revenue
By Keith Ferrazzi and Wendy SmithApril 18, 2026
Latest Stories
Chip Roy introduces the MAMDANI Act to punish immigrants for ideology—including socialism and Marxism
PoliticsChip Roy introduces the MAMDANI Act to punish immigrants for ideology—including socialism and Marxism
By Catherina GioinoApril 21, 2026
Two Halliburton employees, clad in red coveralls, work at a pressure pumping, or fracking, operation in the Permian Basin.
EnergyHalliburton CEO: U.S. oil is in the ‘early innings’ of a rebound—and a drilling ramp-up is coming
By Jordan BlumApril 21, 2026
James Uthmeier
LawFlorida launches criminal probe into OpenAI to see if ChatGPT is responsible for fatal Florida State shooting
By Mike Schneider and The Associated PressApril 21, 2026
Sequoia partner Julien Bek sitting on a stool and holding a microphone while speaking to an audience. Behind him is a stage that looks like a forest.
AIAre services the new software? This venture capitalist thinks the future is in selling AI-delivered outcomes, not AI-powered products
By Jeremy KahnApril 21, 2026
Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan shakes someone's hand at the opening of Polymarket's temporary free grocery store in Manhattan
CryptoInvestors are valuing Polymarket $7 billion less than archrival Kalshi—and crypto could be one reason why
By Jack KubinecApril 21, 2026
Double exposure photograph of a portrait of Mark Zuckerberg and a telephone displaying the Meta group s artificial intelligence logo at Kerlouan in Brittany in France on April 11 2025. (Photo by Vincent Feuray / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP) (Photo by VINCENT FEURAY/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images)
AIMeta will start tracking employees’ screens and keystrokes to train AI tools
By Eva RoytburgApril 21, 2026
Photo of Jeff Bezos (left) and Pete Hegseth before a sign that reads Freedom
Politics‘Something sinister could be happening’: FBI looks into dead or missing nuclear and space defense scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, and SpaceX
By Catherina GioinoApril 21, 2026
Google Cloud’s next big moment—and what it needs to continue its ascent
AIGoogle Cloud’s next big moment—and what it needs to continue its ascent
By Alex Kantrowitz, Marty Swant and Big TechnologyApril 21, 2026
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CommentaryTo unlock employee effort, don’t overlook the person holding the wrench 
By Stacey Zolt HaraMarch 12, 2026
  • wolfgang
    CommentaryEurope doesn’t lack tech talent. Its leaders lack execution
    By Wolfgang OelsMarch 3, 2026
sonnenfeldt
CommentaryI exited one of the NYC area’s biggest real estate deals at 31. Here’s what I learned
By Michael SonnenfeldtMarch 12, 2026
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CommentaryThe shadow fleet and illegal oil are still moving through the Strait of Hormuz
By Charles Edward GehrkeMarch 11, 2026
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CommentaryThere’s one particular way the Iran War is different from all the others in American history
By Charles Walldorf and The ConversationMarch 11, 2026
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CommentaryHow the ultrawealthy use smartphone apps to avoid millions in taxes
By Jose AtilesMarch 11, 2026
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CommentaryAI is the most important civil and human rights issue of our time — HBCUs need to be in the driver’s seat
By Chris Hyams and Meme StylesMarch 11, 2026
  • zuck
    CommentaryBoards aren’t ready for the AI age: What happens when your CEO gets deepfaked?
    By James RichardsonMarch 3, 2026
tired
CommentaryAI can double output. Human biology can’t
By Scott HutchesonMarch 10, 2026
sharma
CommentaryThe AI risk that few organizations are governing
By Raj SharmaMarch 10, 2026
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CommentarySomething will cause inflation to go up this year, but it’s not oil
By Steve H. Hanke and John GreenwoodMarch 9, 2026
Asia’s family offices and corporations must step up to replace a cash-strapped UN and fill the SDG funding gap
CommentaryAsia’s family offices and corporations must step up to replace a cash-strapped UN and fill the SDG funding gap
By Naina Subberwal BatraMarch 8, 2026
herrick
CommentaryI’ve been advising wealthy family offices on real estate for decades. This market requires another look at your 100-year plan
By Belinda G. SchwartzMarch 7, 2026
  • Why Europe can lead in trusted, industrialized AI
    EuropeWhy Europe can lead in trusted, industrialized AI
    By Dave McCannMarch 2, 2026
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CommentaryTrump’s former Surgeon General: voters widely support vaccine access and want Washington to focus elsewhere
By Jerome AdamsMarch 7, 2026
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CommentaryEric Schmidt: Big Tech should power its own AI ambitions 
By Eric SchmidtMarch 6, 2026
sarandos
CommentaryWhat Netflix’s acquisition of Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking company really shows
By Lin CherryMarch 6, 2026
iran
CommentaryBypassing Hormuz: how technology, not territory, will win the new energy war
By Siddharth MisraMarch 6, 2026
nicole
CommentaryAI mastered language. The physical world is next
By Nicole FraenkelMarch 6, 2026
The President is surprised by the lack of European support for military action against Iran—he shouldn’t be
EuropeThe President is surprised by the lack of European support for military action against Iran—he shouldn’t be
By Kamal AhmedMarch 6, 2026
khosla
Commentary$3.7 billion whisper: the explosive growth of quiet corporate activism
By Sona KhoslaMarch 6, 2026
rail
CommentaryCongress is about to chase rail freight onto American roads. It risks thousands of deaths
By Michael F. GormanMarch 6, 2026
hormuz
CommentaryHung up on Hormuz: the old-world order of oil was just shattered by the closing of Iran’s key global chokepoint
By Siddharth MisraMarch 6, 2026
travis
CommentaryI help manage one of the world’s most constrained supply chains, up close to the defining energy bottleneck of the decade
By Travis EdmondsMarch 6, 2026
shlomo
CommentaryTech billionaire Shlomo Kramer: the cyber selloff proved that Wall Street can’t price tech anymore
By Shlomo KramerMarch 5, 2026
dell
CommentaryTime on his side: Michael Dell the real business icon as Icahn the activist recedes from view
By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven TianMarch 5, 2026
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CommentaryThe housing paradox: why banning institutional investors could make affordability worse
By Sean DobsonMarch 5, 2026
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CommentaryPoor brain health costs the world economy $5 trillion a year. The world is waking up to the crisis
By George VradenburgMarch 5, 2026
mossadegh
CommentaryOne key difference on America and Iran, then and now: the CIA had a plan for what would happen in 1953
By Gregory F. Treverton and The ConversationMarch 4, 2026
altman
CommentarySam Altman, Jensen Huang and the other AI kingpins only have themselves to blame for the scare rippling through the economy right now
By Kevin ManeyMarch 4, 2026
wong
CommentaryLegal AI is splitting in two—and most people miss the difference
By David WongMarch 4, 2026
gen z
CommentaryMillennials invented the experience economy and Gen Z is reinventing travel itself
By Nick FilatovMarch 4, 2026
cuban
CommentaryTrump promised lower drug prices. Here’s how Congress virtually guaranteed the opposite
By Tony LoSassoMarch 4, 2026
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