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You can fly almost anywhere in Europe for €20 while Spirit Airlines is staving off bankruptcy. Here’s the difference
You can fly almost anywhere in Europe for €20 while Spirit Airlines is staving off bankruptcy. Here’s the difference

Why have budget carriers become durable competitors in Europe while the U.S. version is now fighting for a federal lifeline?

By Catherina GioinoApril 23, 2026
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Cadence CEO on the AI boom and human nature: ‘there are more tools, but the human part is not different’
By Nick LichtenbergApril 23, 2026
Meta, Microsoft look to trim workforces amid heavy AI spending
Meta, Microsoft look to trim workforces amid heavy AI spending
By Kurt Wagner, Brody Ford and BloombergApril 23, 2026
A man walks on a patch of land that is dried and cracked
The world has entered a ‘global water bankruptcy,’ but markets are mispricing water as drought costs rise to $307 billion annually, analysts warn
By Sasha RogelbergApril 23, 2026
President Donald Trump
People living in the U.S. with temporary protected status, targeted by Trump, are a $29 billion economic force
By Tristan BoveApril 23, 2026
David Ellison smiles
Paramount’s $81 billion Warner Bros mega merger moves closer to becoming a reality as shareholders approve deal
By Wyatte Grantham-Philips and The Associated PressApril 23, 2026
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Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan crushed Wall Street targets on his 1-year anniversary: We are embracing our ‘paranoid’ roots
Big TechIntel CEO Lip Bu Tan crushed Wall Street targets on his 1-year anniversary: We are embracing our ‘paranoid’ roots
By Alexei OreskovicApril 23, 2026
Feds charge U.S. Army soldier who made $400,000 from Polymarket bets tied to Maduro capture
LawFeds charge U.S. Army soldier who made $400,000 from Polymarket bets tied to Maduro capture
By Jeff John RobertsApril 23, 2026
Zohran Mamdani
Personal FinanceKen Griffin’s Citadel fires back at NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani ‘tax the rich’ video featuring his $238 million penthouse
By Catherina GioinoApril 23, 2026
Should you pay off debt or save? How to decide
Personal FinanceShould you pay off debt or save? How to decide
By Joseph HostetlerApril 23, 2026
Jensen Huang stands smiling with his arms outstretched.
Big Tech‘Don’t leave’: Jensen Huang challenges billionaire class as he insists ‘highest taxes in the world’ are OK with him
By Jacqueline MunisApril 23, 2026
The man who helped put meat at the top of RFK Jr.’s new food pyramid is Steak ’n Shake’s new ‘Chief MAHA Officer’
HealthThe man who helped put meat at the top of RFK Jr.’s new food pyramid is Steak ’n Shake’s new ‘Chief MAHA Officer’
By Catherina GioinoApril 23, 2026
Tesla stock dives on news that it earned next to nothing on cars in Q1, and plans to spend $25 billion in CapEx anyway
Big TechTesla stock dives on news that it earned next to nothing on cars in Q1, and plans to spend $25 billion in CapEx anyway
By Shawn TullyApril 23, 2026
How Chris Ong helped Seatrium emerge from a messy merger between two shipyards to become a profitable offshore oil and wind giant
AsiaHow Chris Ong helped Seatrium emerge from a messy merger between two shipyards to become a profitable offshore oil and wind giant
By Nicholas Gordon and Angelica AngApril 23, 2026
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Factory worker on assembly line.
SuccessNearly 4 million new manufacturing jobs are coming to America as boomers retire—but it’s the one trade job Gen Z doesn’t want
By Emma BurleighDecember 4, 2025
  • Santa is coming to Wall Street early this season, and analysts say 2026 is shaping up to be another big year of gains
    InvestingSanta is coming to Wall Street early this season, and analysts say 2026 is shaping up to be another big year of gains
    By Jason MaNovember 29, 2025
Donald Trump
Politics‘There’s this fake narrative that the Democrats talk about, affordability’: Trump keeps dismissing cost of living as his party struggles to hold seats
By Meg Kinnard, Joey Cappelletti and The Associated PressDecember 4, 2025
Jerome Powell
CommentaryFed officials like the mystique of being seen as financial technocrats, but it’s time to demystify the central bank
By Alexander William SalterDecember 4, 2025
Bastian
PoliticsDelta took $200 million hit from longest government shutdown in history, filings reveal
By Rio Yamat and The Associated PressDecember 4, 2025
President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC on December 2, 2025.
EconomyTwo months into the new fiscal year and the U.S. government is already spending more than $10 billion a week servicing national debt
By Eleanor PringleDecember 4, 2025
Greg Abbott and Sundar Pichai sit next to each other at a red table.
AIBank of America predicts an ‘air pocket,’ not an AI bubble, fueled by mountains of debt piling up from the data center rush
By Sasha RogelbergDecember 3, 2025
  • Wall Street strategist explains today’s political rage with a poverty line that should be $140,000 and the ‘Valley of Death’ trapping people below it
    EconomyWall Street strategist explains today’s political rage with a poverty line that should be $140,000 and the ‘Valley of Death’ trapping people below it
    By Jason MaNovember 29, 2025
Bessent
EconomyScott Bessent calls the Giving Pledge well-intentioned but ‘very amorphous,’ growing from ‘a panic among the billionaire class’
By Nick LichtenbergDecember 3, 2025
Scott Bessent
EconomyScott Bessent is defiant on whether tariffs are a tax, demands Democrats work to cut actual taxes instead
By Nick LichtenbergDecember 3, 2025
President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting at the White House on Dec. 2, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
EconomyTrump says national debt is ‘peanuts’ and his tariff income will pay everyone a $2,000 dividend too—but the math doesn’t add up
By Eleanor PringleDecember 3, 2025
Federal Reserve Bank Chair Jerome Powell
EconomyTrump’s pick for chairman isn’t enough to threaten Fed independence, says Bank of America—especially if Jerome Powell decides to stick around
By Eleanor PringleDecember 3, 2025
Elon Musk, standing with his arms crossed, looks down at Donald Trump sitting at his desk in the Oval Office
EconomyElon Musk says he warned Trump against tariffs, which U.S. manufacturers blame for a turn to more offshoring and diminishing American factory jobs
By Sasha RogelbergDecember 2, 2025
  • McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski said earlier the fast-food chain's combo meals were too expensive for its customers.
    C-SuiteMcDonald’s promoted its new $8 nugget combo meal, then got blasted online with complaints about affordability, quality and service
    By Nino PaoliNovember 29, 2025
layoffs
EconomyWhat CEOs say about AI and what they mean about layoffs and job cuts: Goldman Sachs peels the onion
By Nick LichtenbergDecember 2, 2025
Trump
CommentaryThe trade war was never going to fix our deficit
By Daniel BunnDecember 2, 2025
Michael Dell talks candidly about his $6.25 billion donation to fund Invest America accounts for 25 million American children
EconomyMichael Dell talks candidly about his $6.25 billion donation to fund Invest America accounts for 25 million American children
By Diane BradyDecember 2, 2025
Mohamed Aly El-Erian
Economy‘This Fed went to sleep,’ says top economist Mohamed El-Erian, who wants to see the central bank reformed and presidents to ‘cool it’
By Eleanor PringleDecember 2, 2025
More than 1,000 Amazon employees sign open letter warning the company’s AI ‘will do staggering damage to democracy, our jobs, and the earth’
AIMore than 1,000 Amazon employees sign open letter warning the company’s AI ‘will do staggering damage to democracy, our jobs, and the earth’
By Nino PaoliDecember 2, 2025
Extended holiday sales, effectively Black November, is ‘confusing’ for customers and dilutes shopping ‘sparkle’ of Black Fridays and Cyber Mondays past
RetailExtended holiday sales, effectively Black November, is ‘confusing’ for customers and dilutes shopping ‘sparkle’ of Black Fridays and Cyber Mondays past
By Kristina Monllos and Marketing BrewDecember 1, 2025
members of the media outside the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. Hassett said that Chinese actions on trade in the last few weeks have been "unacceptable," but there has been "sort of a thawing" in US-China relations in recent days as conversations
EconomyWho is Kevin Hassett? The rumored Fed pick says inflation is ‘way down,’ sees ‘political bias’ in jobs data, and suggested firing Powell over a renovation
By Eva RoytburgDecember 1, 2025
Queens
LawNew York City backs casinos in Queens and the Bronx that would benefit billionaire Steve Cohen and maybe even Donald Trump
By Philip Marcelo and The Associated PressDecember 1, 2025
Donald Trump
EconomyThe tariffs are raising $100 billion less than Trump expected. Pantheon Macro sees 3 reasons why, starting with China
By Nick LichtenbergDecember 1, 2025
President Donald Trump walks out with Federal Reserve board member Jerome Powell
EconomyTrump says he has a name to replace Powell—so Wall Street may need to contend with a ‘shadow Fed chair’ for the next half year
By Eleanor PringleDecember 1, 2025
dollars
EconomyThe K-shaped economy means inflation hurts at the bottom and swells the assets at the top
By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated PressDecember 1, 2025
Cyber Monday
RetailAdobe sees Americans spending $14.2 billion online during Cyber Monday, last call for holiday shopping binge
By Wyatte Grantham-Philips and The Associated PressDecember 1, 2025
Photo of Elon Musk
EconomyElon Musk says only AI and robotics can solve the ‘insanely high’ $38 trillion national debt crisis—but it would cause ‘significant deflation’
By Eleanor PringleDecember 1, 2025
Photo: PHILADELPHIA, PA - NOVEMBER 28: Philadelphia Eagles fan dressed as the Grinch looks on during the game between the Chicago Bears and the Philadelphia Eagles on November 28, 2025 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, PA.
Economy‘Santa Rally’ stalls even though a December cut from the Fed is a near certainty
By Jim EdwardsDecember 1, 2025
Teen brands win over wary Black Friday shoppers while other deals disappoint
RetailTeen brands win over wary Black Friday shoppers while other deals disappoint
By Jaewon Kang and BloombergNovember 30, 2025
The housing crisis is also a crisis of hopelessness as young Americans give up, hustle less, spend more, and make risky investments as a last resort
EconomyThe housing crisis is also a crisis of hopelessness as young Americans give up, hustle less, spend more, and make risky investments as a last resort
By Jason MaNovember 30, 2025
Black Friday
Economy‘Black Friday has really turned into like a full week event’: America spends Thanksgiving week cruising for deals amid $18 billion spending explosion
By Wyatte Grantham-Philips and The Associated PressNovember 30, 2025
Tim Wu
EconomyWhy the economy has that ‘weird feeling of something you like getting worse’: One of America’s top legal theorists on ‘the age of extraction’
By Nick LichtenbergNovember 30, 2025
Lab-grown diamonds are crushing this African economy that was built on natural stones
EconomyLab-grown diamonds are crushing this African economy that was built on natural stones
By Sello Motseta, Farai Mutsaka and The Associated PressNovember 29, 2025
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When interest on national debt overtook military spending, it triggered a limit where the U.S. may ‘cease to be a great power,’ warns Hoover historianplaceholder alt text
By Eleanor PringleApril 23, 2026
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Despite nearing their 60s, nearly four in 10 Americans heading towards the end of their careers don’t even have a retirement accountplaceholder alt text
By Emma BurleighApril 23, 2026
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