Bitcoin’s Identity Crisis: Can It Truly Become a Digital Store of Value?
As we move deeper into 2025, many people are wondering: “Why does it feel like everything’s getting more expensive — even though wages are supposed to be recovering?” The truth is, while the economy is showing pockets of strength, rising costs and shifting monetary...
How Students Can Earn a Degree With Minimal or No Debt
As tuition continues climbing faster than inflation, many students are rethinking the traditional path to a four-year degree. Rising costs are forcing families to look for creative, strategic ways to limit borrowing — and fortunately, there are more options than ever...
What to Do With Your Retirement Plan After Losing a Job
Job loss brings uncertainty, but one financial decision often gets pushed aside: what to do with the retirement money left behind in your former employer’s plan. That account may be one of your largest assets, and handling it wisely can protect your long-term...
Why More Borrowers Could Soon See Smaller Student Loan Payments
With living costs rising faster than many households can adjust, policymakers are searching for ways to lighten financial strain — and student borrowers may soon see relief. A series of updates to repayment rules could broaden who qualifies for lower monthly payments,...
Understanding the Proposed Child Savings Incentive: What Parents Should Know
As we move deeper into 2025, many people are wondering: “Why does it feel like everything’s getting more expensive — even though wages are supposed to be recovering?” The truth is, while the economy is showing pockets of strength, rising costs and shifting monetary...
Why Americans Are Feeling the Pinch — And What You Can Do About It
2025 isn’t a return to “pre-pandemic normal.” Instead, we’re in a transition: a time where rising costs, economic uncertainty, and shifting global conditions demand both vigilance and adaptability.
- World Cup safety is in jeopardy due to funding chaos and a lack of security coordination, U.S. host city officials warnby Sam Klebanov, Morning Brew on March 4, 2026 at 10:18 pm
There are only 100 days until the World Cup kickoff.
- Target is over being ‘an everything store,’ CEO says. It’s doubling down on baby items and groceries—and investing $1 billion in its supply chainby Molly Liebergall, Morning Brew on March 4, 2026 at 10:10 pm
Meanwhile, customers say they feel store inventory is lacking and aren’t fans of Target’s DEI rollbacks.
- Top AI economist who found ‘significant and disproportionate impact’ on entry-level jobs finds link between robots and minimum wage hikesby Nick Lichtenberg on March 4, 2026 at 9:56 pm
If you raise the minimum wage 10%, then robot adoption goes up 8%, research looking at data from 1992 to 2021 shows.
- Exclusive: Venture giant a16z crypto targeting around $2 billion for its fifth fund amid blockchain market downturn, sources sayby Ben Weiss, Leo Schwartz on March 4, 2026 at 9:37 pm
The Chris Dixon-led outfit is planning to close the fundraise in the first half of 2026.
- This ‘retirement nerd’ at the uber-liberal New School teamed with Trump’s economy guru to reinvent the 401(k)by Jacqueline Munis on March 4, 2026 at 9:08 pm
Teresa Ghilarducci told Fortune that Trump is a “quirky, bold leader," but admits that if she was younger, she'd have "ideological, righteous concerns."
- Viral deepfake ad casts Musk, Bezos, and Altman as corpulent overlords powering AI on human sweat. Its creator says the best jokes tell the truthby Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez on March 4, 2026 at 8:19 pm
The viral AI ad imagines laid-off workers pedaling bikes to power the technology that replaced them.
- Meet the social media CEO who won’t let his own kids on social media: ‘Parents are oblivious to the world’by Jake Angelo on March 4, 2026 at 6:09 pm
Viral Nation CEO Joe Gagliese thinks there's a massive social media knowledge gap that exists between kids and parents and they need to be educated.
- OpenAI sees Codex users spike to 1 million, positions coding tool as gateway to AI agents for businessby Jeremy Kahn on March 4, 2026 at 5:33 pm
Controversy over OpenAI’s agreement to provide AI to the Pentagon has swamped news about Codex’s rapid adoption.
- Iran has the intent—and increasingly the tools—for AI-powered cyberattacksby Sharon Goldman on March 2, 2026 at 7:12 pm
While there’s no public evidence Iran can deploy fully autonomous cyber agents, AI may already be accelerating familiar attacks against critical infrastructure.
- Harvard professor calls out ‘lie’ of needing 8 hours of sleep a night, says it’s Industrial Era ‘nonsense’by Ashley Lutz on October 30, 2025 at 6:46 pm
How much sleep do you really need? Scientists emphasize a "U-shaped risk curve."





