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Nicholas Gordon

Ascend Money wants to finance the 10 million-plus Thais currently being ignored by traditional banks stuck in the past

/2026/01/13/ascend-money-change-the-world-thailand-tanyapong-thamavaranukupt/

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Stephen Henriques

Is Powell’s Fed head independence dead? It’s just one more diversionary trick as Trump outfoxes himself

/2026/01/12/jerome-powell-federal-reserve-independence-trump-polling-diversion/

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Elon Musk says saving for retirement is irrelevant because AI is going to create a world of abundance: ‘It won’t matter’

/2026/01/12/elon-musk-retirement-savings-irrelevant-ai-robots-abundance/

Molly Liebergall

Morning Brew

5 daily tasks that can double as exercise

/2026/01/12/5-daily-tasks-that-count-as-exercise/

Tristan Bove

Forget the K-shaped economy, market veteran Ed Yardeni says—instead, it’s boomers hoarding wealth while Gen Z struggles to build it

/2026/01/12/yardeni-gen-shaped-economy-baby-boomer-wealth-genz-millennials/

Jordan Blum

Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods, seated to the right, listens as U.S. President Donald Trump, left, speaks during a meeting with oil company executives in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Jan. 9, 2026. President Trump is aiming to convince oil executives to support his plans in Venezuela, a country whose energy resources he says he expects to control for years to come. U.S. forces seized Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro in a sweeping military operation on Jan. 3, with Trump making no secret that control of Venezuela's oil was at the heart of his actions.

Trump threatens to keep ‘too cute’ Exxon out of Venezuela after CEO provides reality check on ‘univestable’ industry

/2026/01/12/trump-threatens-keep-too-cute-exxon-out-of-venezuela/

Glen Luke Flanagan

Best checking accounts for January 2026

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Best online banks of January 2026

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Leo Schwartz

Ben Weiss

Former New York Mayor Eric Adams has a new act as a crypto entrepreneur—though details of his ‘NYC Token’ remain vague

/2026/01/12/eric-adams-new-york-mayor-crypto-blockchain-nyc-token/

Susan Haigh

The Associated Press

Muhammad Ali once joked he should be on a stamp because ‘that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked.’ Wish granted

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Thalia Beaty

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donates $45 million to LGBTQ+ youth hotline organization, The Trevor Project

/2026/01/12/billionaire-philanthropist-mackenzie-scott-donates-45-million-to-lgbtq-youth-hotline-organization-the-trevor-project/

Nick Lichtenberg

The 4.9% mystery: U.S. economy sees productivity surge, but drivers remain an ‘open question,’ top economist says

/2026/01/12/why-is-productivity-up-4-9-percent-gdp-growth-jobs-ai-layoffs/

Heather Hollingsworth

Monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis, and AI-generated jokes are just slowing down animal control’s primate chase

/2026/01/12/monkeys-are-on-the-loose-in-st-louis-and-ai-generated-jokes-are-just-slowing-down-animal-controls-primate-chase/

Michael Liedtke

‘Apple Intelligence,’ powered by Gemini, marks a ‘major validation moment for Google,’ top tech analyst says

/2026/01/12/apple-intelligence-powered-by-gemini-marks-a-major-validation-moment-for-google-top-tech-analyst-says/

Rio Yamat

Allegiant Air to acquire Sun Country Airlines for $1.5 billion

/2026/01/12/allegiant-air-to-acquire-sun-country-airlines-for-1-5-billion/

Eileen Ng

Edna Tarigan

Grok blocked in Malaysia and Indonesia as sexual deepfake scandal builds

/2026/01/12/grok-blocked-in-malaysia-and-indonesia-as-sexual-deepfake-scandal-builds/

Joseph Hostetler

Best IRA CDs of 2026

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Jake Angelo

Paramount fires back at Warner Bros. bid, launching proxy fight for board seats at annual meeting

/2026/01/12/paramount-warner-bros-bid-launching-proxy-fight-for-board-seats-at-annual-meeting/

Jason Ma

‘Godfather of AI’ says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — ‘that is the capitalist system’

/article/godfather-ai-geoffrey-hinton-massive-unemployment-soaring-profits-capitalism-hyperscalers/

Americans making more than $100,000 are quickly losing faith in the economy—and it’s a red flag for the white-collar job market

/2026/01/12/us-economy-consumer-sentiment-decline-high-income-data/

An anonymous Polymarket trader made $400,000 betting on Maduro’s downfall—and now Washington wants answers

/2026/01/12/polymarket-kalshi-insider-trading-prediction-markets-cftc-torres-titus-venezuela/

Beatrice Nolan

Illustration of Elon Musk in front of the xAI logo.

U.K. investigation into X over allegedly illegal deepfakes risks igniting a free speech battle with the U.S.

/2026/01/12/uk-investigation-x-xai-grok-deepfakes-us-europe-free-speech-battle/

Emma Burleigh

Just like during Great Recession-era job struggle, Gen Z graduates are pouring into education as Teach For America reports a 43% surge in new teachers

/2026/01/12/echo-great-recession-gen-zers-flooding-into-education-teach-for-america-experiences-43-surge-in-new-teachers/

Jacqueline Munis

Acquisition.com CEO says leaders ‘have it backwards’ when it comes to hiring: She says she hires for emotional intelligence over technical skills

/2026/01/12/acquisition-com-ceo-emotional-intelligence-over-technical-skills-success/

Sydney Lake

‘Something big’ just happened in the U.S. housing market, real estate CEO says. And it could mean the difference of being able to buy a home or not

/2026/01/12/something-big-happening-us-housing-market-mortgage-rates-affordability/

The FOMC has the power to pick its own chair and could keep Powell—unless the DOJ probe and Supreme Court let Trump oust him from the Fed

/2026/01/12/jerome-powell-doj-probe-fomc-fed-chair-trump-supreme-court/

Preston Fore

Google’s Sergey Brin admits he’s hiring ‘tons’ of workers without degrees: ‘They just figure things out on their own in some weird corner’

/2026/01/12/google-founder-sergey-brin-hiring-without-degrees-computer-skills-based-economy-stanford-computer-science/

Sasha Rogelberg

Jerome Powell adjusts his glasses, looking to his left.

Goldman Sachs top economist says Powell probe won’t change the Fed: ‘Decisions are going to be made based on employment and inflation’

/2026/01/12/goldman-sachs-top-economist-powell-doj-investigation-wont-impact-fed-policy/

Emma Hinchliffe

‘It’s never too late to shine’: The most inspiring messages from the 2026 Golden Globes

/2026/01/12/golden-globes-2026-teyana-taylor-nikki-glaser-hamnet/

Jeff Bezos tells Gen Z entrepreneurs to gain work experience before launching new companies: ‘I started Amazon when I was 30’

/article/jeff-bezos-gen-z-advice-get-work-experience-first-launched-amazon-when-30/

Eva Roytburg

Bearded man in early 30s with hand in pocket walking in Manhattan Financial District, talking with caller, landmark financial building in background.

The Twitter men’s wear guy says your dress shirt and chinos are ‘really ugly.’ He offers one simple way to upgrade your work look

/2024/06/17/derek-guy-twitter-menswear-work-outfit-attire-fashion-advice/

Sunny Nagpaul

Meet the 59-year-old Barbie ‘dealer’ whose hustle has netted $2 million in sales

/2024/06/08/barbie-economy-collector-toy-show-ebay/

Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone, pictured at an event on November 7, 2017.

20 years ago Rolling Stone promised subscribers a ‘lifetime’ print magazine for just $99—now they’re canceling and readers are ‘enraged’

/2024/06/05/rolling-stone-subscription-lifetime/

Brands that teens once heralded as the epitome of trendy and fast fashion—think Abercrombie, Forever 21, and Shein—are now tapping into the $14 billion bridal-gown market.

Shein and Abercrombie are disrupting the $14 billion bridal gown market with cheap dresses—but where brides save, the world is paying full price

/2024/05/14/shein-abercrombie-bridal-gowns-dresses-environment-impact-forever21-lulus-fashion/

Chloe Berger

Gen Zers only plan to have one kid—and that’s bad news for our graying nation

/2024/05/09/gen-z-having-kids-babies-motherly-jill-koziol/

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Jim Edwards

‘Sell America’: Investors dump U.S. assets in fear of the end of Fed independence

https://fortune.com/2026/01/12/sell-america-stocks-fed-independence/?itm_source=parsely-api

Eleanor Pringle

Treasury spent $276 billion in interest on the national debt in the final three months of 2025, says the CBO—up $30 billion from a year prior

https://fortune.com/2026/01/12/treasury-national-debt-interest/?itm_source=parsely-api

An exec at $62 billion giant Colgate says Gen Z workers, despite getting flak for being woke and lazy, are actually ‘pushing us to get better’

https://fortune.com/2026/01/10/gen-z-woke-lazy-colgate-palmolive-exec-sally-massey-says-gen-z-workers-pushing-businesses-to-do-better/?itm_source=parsely-api

This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he'd do it again

https://fortune.com/article/ceo-laid-off-80-percent-workforce-sabotage-what-are-ai-skills/?itm_source=parsely-api

A Supreme Court ruling that strikes down Trump's tariffs would be the fastest way to revive the stalling job market, top economist says

https://fortune.com/2026/01/11/job-market-economy-supreme-court-ieepa-ruling-trump-tariffs/?itm_source=parsely-api

Justin Harlan

I run one of America's most successful remote work programs and the critics are right. Their solutions are all wrong, though

https://fortune.com/2026/01/11/why-remote-critics-are-right-tulsa-remote-leader-says-but-their-solutions-are-wrong-management/?itm_source=parsely-api

Bill Gates warns the world is going 'backwards' and gives 5-year deadline before we enter a new Dark Age

https://fortune.com/2026/01/09/bill-gates-world-backwards-funding-fears-dark-ages/?itm_source=parsely-api

Gen Z are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence—professors warn it could lead to a generation of anxious and lonely graduates

https://fortune.com/2026/01/09/gen-z-college-students-struggling-to-read-professors-forced-to-rethink-standards-warn-of-anxiety-lack-of-workplace-prepardness/?itm_source=parsely-api

'Something big' just happened in the U.S. housing market, real estate CEO says. And it could mean the difference of being able to buy a home or not

https://fortune.com/2026/01/12/something-big-happening-us-housing-market-mortgage-rates-affordability/?itm_source=parsely-api

As U.S. debt soars past $38 trillion, the flood of corporate bonds is a growing threat to the Treasury supply

https://fortune.com/2026/01/10/us-debt-ig-corporate-bonds-ai-boom-treasury-supply-bond-yields/?itm_source=parsely-api

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