Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
OpenAI and SoftBank Group Corp are committing $1 billion to SB Energy, turning a specialist in large-scale infrastructure into a central pillar of the Stargate data center buildout. The deal signals that the race to supply power and real estate for advanced AI is entering a new phase, where energy developers sit alongside chipmakers and…
Bill Gates has quietly become one of the most powerful landowners in the United States, controlling a patchwork of fields and orchards that add up to roughly one out of every 4,000 acres in the country. His stake, which various reports put at about 270,000 to 275,000 acres of U.S. farmland, has turned a once…
Artificial intelligence is starting to automate the very tasks that once defined white‑collar careers, yet a growing group of displaced and anxious workers are finding a way to get paid by helping train the systems that could replace them. Instead of fighting the tide, they are selling their expertise to companies that need human judgment…
Robert Kiyosaki is turning up the volume on a warning he has repeated for years: the next phase of the global downturn will not just dent portfolios, it could erase jobs on a historic scale. As 2026 approaches, he is tying that risk to what he calls the biggest economic and technological shift in history,…
The market gauge Warren Buffett once called “probably the best single measure” of overall valuation is flashing one of its loudest warnings in six decades. The so‑called Buffett indicator, which compares the total value of U.S. stocks to the size of the economy, has surged to levels that historically preceded painful comedowns for investors. With…
Executives are racing to plug generative tools and autonomous agents into every corner of the business, from customer support to recruiting. Yet the basic discipline that governs human hiring, a clear role definition, is often missing when those same leaders deploy AI. If I would never bring a person into a critical workflow without a…
Drivers across the United States are starting 2026 with a rare kind of sticker shock at the pump, the pleasant kind. The national average for regular gasoline has slipped to levels not seen since before the pandemic-era price spikes, giving households a small but tangible boost just as holiday bills arrive. Gas is now hovering…
Hiring in the United States is losing momentum just as the jobless rate edges toward its highest level in roughly four years, a combination that signals a cooler but still contested labor market. The latest federal report shows only modest payroll gains alongside an unemployment rate that, while slightly lower than a month earlier, remains…
President Donald Trump is trying to rewrite the basic bargain between Washington and the weapons industry, pairing the promise of a much larger Pentagon budget with an ultimatum that contractors will only see that money if they build faster and focus less on shareholders. Instead of quietly tweaking procurement rules, he is using public threats,…
Artificial intelligence is no longer nibbling at the edges of office work, it is starting to carve out entire categories of white-collar labor. Analysts now warn that as many as 5 million white-collar jobs could effectively vanish as companies automate routine decision making, reporting, and customer interaction. The same technologies that generate marketing copy, summarize…
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