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Diary of a CEO founder Steven Bartlett hired someone with 'zero' work experience because she 'thanked the security guard by name' before the interview

A virtually blank resume may spook employers, but job candidates don’t need a lengthy work career to land a gig—after all, one of Steven Bartlett’s best hires only had two lines on her CV.

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America's twin scarcities: The 4-million-unit shortage in both housing and childcare is breaking families

America's housing and childcare shortages are converging into a single affordability crisis with major macroeconomic consequences.

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Sam Altman says the quiet part out loud, confirming some companies are ‘AI washing’ by blaming unrelated layoffs on the technology

Some economists are warning there’s no sign of AI-related job displacement appearing in the labor data. Altman claimed it’s just a matter of time until it does.

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I spent a decade selling homes to the ultra-wealthy. What I saw explains the housing market's nepo problem

The most important thing I learned selling real estate to the top 1% for 10 years wasn't about properties — it was about the parents in the room.

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America got rich and got sad. A top economist says 2020 broke something that hasn't healed

It's not a mystery why everyone got sad in 2020. What is: the fact they never recovered. Sam Peltzman sees a "segregated happiness society."

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America's debt just hit a milestone not seen since WWII — and credit agencies are sounding the alarm

America's debt just surpassed the size of its entire economy. That could mean higher mortgage rates, costlier loans, and government spending ever more squeezed.

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Trump wants to cut federal loans from college programs that don't pay off. College cosmetology, fine arts, and music programs are at risk

As student debt surpasses $1.7 trillion, a Trump-backed rule would strip federal aid from degree and certificate programs with weak earnings outcomes.

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A $20B battleship the U.S. abandoned after WWII is back in Trump's $1.5T defense budget. Experts say modern missiles will easily destroy it

President Trump's record defense budget includes a new class of battleships not seen since WWII.

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Fed whisperer splits on Powell: A+ as steward, but ‘I don't think you could give him high marks on the economy’

"I think they made a lot of mistakes under his leadership, on the economics and the monetary policy."

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Eventbrite CEO sold her company for $500 million—without a job for the first time since 15, she’s playing chess with a robot and eyeing internships

Julia Hartz, the cofounder and CEO of ticketing platform Eventbrite, made a $500 million exit and is now considering her next career move as a free agent.

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Zoom is giving away $150K to 'solopreneurs' with no strings attached—as 33 million workers ditch their 9-to-5 to become their own boss

As AI kills the American dream of a stable job and a corner office, 33 million people are going solo—and Zoom is throwing $150,000 behind the movement.

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Can the 'blue economy' deliver on its promise? Investors are starting see the ocean as an asset worth protecting

Investors, scientists, and leaders are no longer asking if the blue economy is real and instead figuring out how quickly they can scale it.

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Warren Buffett says markets are like a church with a casino attached, but 'we've never had people in a more gambling mood than now'

"But that doesn't mean that investing is terrible. It does mean that prices for an awful lot of things will look very silly."

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Interest on U.S. debt is becoming a top driver of future deficits, as the sheer size of past borrowing overwhelms the fiscal outlook

"In a 'Fiscal Dominance' regime, the Fed's ability to aggressively hike rates to curb inflation is constrained, as doing so risks a fiscal or financial crisis."

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Jensen Huang says some CEOs have a 'God complex' when it comes to AI apocalypse warnings, which can create shortages of critical workers

"So we have to be mindful of how we communicate the importance of this technology and what it's able to do."

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Gen Z is rebelling against the economy with ‘disillusionomics,’ tackling near 6-figure debt by turning life into a giant list of income streams

Failed promises are reshaping how Gen Z approaches financial decisions and their role in the economy. Call it “disillusionomics,” Alice Lassman says.

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CEO writes hundreds of thank you notes to staff and still eats in the break room—which 'always, for whatever reason, blows new employees away'

First Watch CEO Chris Tomasso isn’t afraid to pick up pen and paper—something similarly embraced by top business leaders at Chevron and even OpenAI.

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Suze Orman once said earning more than $800,000 would make her 'sick to my stomach'—but that turning down Oprah Winfrey cured her self-doubt

Finance icon Suze Orman turned down a million-dollar book deal and refused to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show—and says both decisions changed her life.

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Big Tech is shelling out up to $1 million for new hires who will never have to write a line of code

Tech companies are paying up to $1.2 million for senior communications roles because explaining AI is now a strategic asset.

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The American household just took an 81% margin cut. Wall Street hasn’t priced it in

The economy is treating the oil shock like a temporary inflation problem. It's actually a household solvency problem, and the risk is radiating.

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Anthropic's most powerful AI model just exposed a crisis in corporate governance. Here's the framework every CEO needs.

Yale's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and colleagues argue that Claude Mythos will break enterprise deployment in ways that cannot be undone—without key fixes.

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Trump picked a fight with the Pope: The one person he can't fire, can't outbid, and can't outlast

The Vatican, the oldest institution in the world, has faced attacks from leaders throughout history—and from the U.S. This time it's unprecedented.

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One economist’s ‘radical idea’ to solve the biggest energy crisis in history: a reverse OPEC

UMass Amherst economist Gregor Semieniuk says the U.S. is the most powerful country to make the idea work.

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We need a new way of thinking about drinking: Time to replace the 'standard drink' with advice people can actually use

Drinking guidelines built around abstract units and mental math aren't changing behavior. A "low and slow" framework could finally move the needle.

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Stop donating to Harvard and the Ivy League. There's a better option that MacKenzie Scott already figured out

MacKenzie Scott gets it. Most donors still don't.

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