Category: Prices and Inflation

Lakeland, Florida, a mid-sized city positioned along the Interstate 4 corridor between Tampa and Orlando, has claimed the top spot on a national ranking of America’s fastest-growing boomtowns. The city’s population surged 34.39% between 2014 and 2024, and its 2025 move in-to-out ratio of 1.33 means roughly four people arrive for every three who leave….

Gates Foundation Trust committed nearly 30% of its $36,583,755,044 reported 13F portfolio to a single stock at the end of the third quarter of 2025: Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares. The position, worth $10,942,248,714 across 21,765,224 shares, represents the largest holding in a trust that serves as the investment arm behind one of the world’s…

J.P. Morgan has adjusted its silver price target for 2026, citing growing policy uncertainty around the metal’s newly elevated status as a critical mineral in the United States. The reset comes after the White House moved to address supply-chain vulnerabilities tied to processed critical minerals, and as federal agencies continue to track silver production and…

Elon Musk is seeking up to $134 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft in a federal lawsuit that has now cleared a key procedural hurdle, with a U.S. judge ruling that the case can proceed to a jury trial. The dispute, rooted in OpenAI’s shift from a nonprofit to a for-profit structure, represents one…

Steven Spielberg is among a growing number of California billionaires reportedly weighing a departure from the state ahead of a proposed one-time 5% wealth tax that would apply to anyone with assets exceeding $1 billion as of January 1, 2026. The ballot initiative, which cleared for signature gathering late last year, has triggered what observers…

Nvidia and OpenAI have scrapped their ambitious $100 billion multi-year partnership and replaced it with a far simpler arrangement: a roughly $30 billion equity investment from the chipmaker into OpenAI’s next funding round. The dramatic restructuring, first reported by the Financial Times, signals that even the two most powerful companies in artificial intelligence are recalibrating…

Tesla is pushing toward a sub-$30,000 price point for its Cybercab robotaxi, with CEO Elon Musk targeting production as early as 2026. But the company’s aggressive timeline runs headlong into a regulatory reality that has yet to catch up: Tesla still lacks the permits needed to operate an autonomous passenger service in California, and its…

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has framed his $127 billion preliminary budget for Fiscal Year 2027 as a direct challenge to Governor Kathy Hochul: either Albany approves new taxes on millionaires and profitable corporations, or city homeowners face a property tax increase of nearly 10%. That binary choice, laid out in the budget released…

Walmart reported its fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 earnings on February 19, 2026, posting total revenue growth of 5.6% year over year and pointing to higher-income households as a key driver of its recent market share gains. The results cap a fiscal year in which the retailer hit record annual revenue, as the Financial Times reported. For…