The U.S. economy contracted in the first quarter as tariffs caused importers to surge shipments before higher levies took effect. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released its third estimate for first quarter gross domestic product (GDP), which found the U.S. economy contracted at an annual rate of…
The Trump administration is pushing back on projections for the so-called “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” arguing the scoring understates the economic growth the bill would fuel and, as a result, projects higher budget deficits. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which is responsible for analyzing the cost of legislation moving…
Microsoft is planning another round of cuts at Xbox as part of the tech giant’s ongoing reorganization. Xbox managers are expecting substantial job cuts across the entire group as soon as next week, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. This marks the fourth time Microsoft downsized its gaming division…
President Donald Trump slammed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday as the head of the central bank testified before a Senate panel. “I think he’s terrible,” Trump said in response to a question from a reporter during a press conference at the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands.Trump reiterated…
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Nataliia Onyshkevych is CEO at EverHelp, a customer support outsourcing company. Experienced in all support roles. Imagine returning a defective headset at a shop where AI processes your return in seconds. Would you notice or care? With AI now handling many routine customer service interactions, these questions matter. Like at…
When I was in high school, I became fascinated with stock market investing. But after only a few weeks of studying it, one thing became clear: I had to pick a side. On one side were those captivated by growth—the optimists who cheered on rising revenues and loved backing a…
Amy is President of Benefits and Protection at Principal Financial Group, serving more than 130,000 SMB customers. Gen-Z is projected to make up 30% of the workforce by 2030 and is already a force of change. They want to work at companies that align with their values, expect flexibility and…
If you created your LinkedIn account a while ago, have been posting decent content, and adding new connections after meeting people in person, you could have just hit 5,000 followers or pretty close. That’s the easy bit done. There’s a benefit to your account being this size. LinkedIn’s algorithm favours…
Week in Review On Monday, Alibaba rose +1.68% following the release of its updated Qwen3 AI model, which is believed to power Apple AI on iPhones sold in China. On Tuesday, Mainland investors bought the Hong Kong dip with $158 million of net buying via Southbound Stock Connect, which accounted…
Toby Braun, Founder & Managing Partner, American Special Investigative Group. When it comes to fraud prevention, most companies rush to invest in software, threat detection systems, audit automation tools, access controls, etc. The truth is, fraud prevention isn’t a technology issue; it’s a leadership issue. It’s easy to blame failed…
Few things ease financial worry like knowing you can walk away from work anytime you want, having true financial freedom. Closed-end funds (CEFs) give us just that kind of security—and we talk about that a lot in my weekly articles and in my CEF Insider service. With yields of 8%,…
CEO & CLO of Age Brilliantly, Jerry Cahn, Ph.D., J.D., leads Project THRIVE to help businesses and workers benefit from upgrading systems. The recent barrage of almost daily flight delays due to air traffic control problems at Newark Airport exposed a set of challenges (registration required) with wider ramifications beyond…
Nitin Gupta, founder of QRCodeChimp. He’s a technology leader with over two decades of technology development and management experience. I met a young Punjabi entrepreneur at a networking event in San Francisco a few years ago. Let’s say his name was Manjit. As startup founders, we bonded quickly. Manjit was…
Alex Lazovsky is a General Partner at Palo Alto Growth Capital, a VC firm based in Palo Alto, California—the heart of Silicon Valley. Imagine a future freelancer leasing out a slice of their own mind to a multinational corporation for an hour. In this speculative future, neural implants could allow…
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