Bang. A boy on the streets knows he has to keep moving. He’s got to keep his head down as he makes his way along the concrete streets and past the dark buildings as he walks to school. The sound is nothing new. Only 12 years old, and he’s become numb. Bang. Just an elementary-school
WASHINGTON — The American Dream now has a gift shop. At the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, capitalism’s new temple right in the heart of Washington, you can try on ambition, buy belief, and exit through the gift shop with a Milken money clip — optimism sold separately. The building sits across from
By mid-September, the country performs its quietest costume change. Before the first leaf even hits the sidewalk, America already smells like nutmeg. Wool socks reappear — even when the thermometer disagrees. The Uggs migrate from your closet to the sidewalk. And somewhere in that choreography, a paper cup becomes a signal: Fall has been declared
For years, Larry Ellison was Silicon Valley’s favorite dinosaur. The Oracle co-founder mocked the cloud as a marketing gimmick while Jeff Bezos, Satya Nadella, and Sundar Pichai built empires on it. Reporters cast Ellison as the old guard: a vaguely ridiculous mogul best remembered for yachts, leather jackets, and a private island, not vision. Then
For years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has had an uncanny ability to bend the stock market with little more than a promise, some vague gesturing — and maybe a tweet. His superpower? Conviction. That steely-eyed certainty that whatever he was pitching — electric semis, self-driving cars, robot butlers — wasn’t just coming. It was coming
There’s dominant, and then there’s whatever Nvidia is right now. The AI giant has outpaced every peer, weathered every storm, and carved out a niche so entrenched that governments now are treating the firm less like a tech company and more like a critical mineral. So the question isn’t whether Nvidia is winning. It’s: What’s
The next time a K‑pop fan hits “buy” on a signed BTS album, they might not just find themselves paying for the photocard, the poster, or the exclusive preorder benefit — but for a 25% tariff, courtesy of U.S. trade policy. Beginning August 1, all South Korean imports to the U.S. will be hit with
Picture thousands of synchronized drones lighting up the sky in a perfectly timed ballet over the National Mall — no pyrotechnics or smoke, just precision, color… and code. Or imagine a family using an augmented-reality app to watch fireworks erupt over their living room ceiling. This year, AI isn’t just enhancing America’s birthday; it’s reimagining
Through the first six months of 2025, Wall Street has split into two Americas: the future and, well, everything else. Chipmakers and AI infrastructure plays are soaring. But consumer stocks, retail giants, industrials, and pretty much all the other companies not powering the artificial intelligence arms race are, to use the not-so-technical term: meh. The
Imagine opening your closet — except it isn’t a closet at all. It’s an app. One that knows your exact measurements, your plans, and your tendency to panic-buy crop tops every May. The app doesn’t just show you what’s trending; it tells you what still fits, what’s collecting dust in the back of your wardrobe,
The “Magnificent Seven” tech stocks led the market’s post-pandemic boom. But as Big Tech sprints into the AI future, one big name is falling dangerously behind: Apple. Once an undisputed tech heavyweight, it risks becoming the least magnificent of them all. While the others — Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook parent Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and
The U.S. and China have stepped back from tariff brinkmanship for now — but don’t mistake handshakes for harmony. The real trade fight is just beginning, and it’s moving into murkier terrain: microchips, AI infrastructure, and data sovereignty. And neither side is going to back down from the fierce contest over who controls the future
Netflix was supposed to get its happily ever after: Its stock had been skyrocketing, and Wall Street largely saw it as a recession-proof play amid swirling macroeconomic concerns. But that all changed with one social media post from President Donald Trump, in which he announced plans to impose a 100% tariff on all movies made outside the
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