There are two trucks parked outside CoinDesk’s Consensus crypto conference in Austin this week. One is promoting Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential...

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Google, Facebook, Twitter, and many more of the web’s biggest brands are seeing a steep decline in traffic. What happened to the futures they...

They promised us flying cars, and all we got were mediocre virtual assistants that seem to be getting worse....

The EV revolution happened. It’s time to admit that electric car companies are, in fact, just car companies....

How Yellow could become Hertz 2.0, a bankruptcy that actually winds up with shareholders getting paid...

For months, Chipotle customers on TikTok and X have theorized that the chain is holding back on its scoops, doling out significantly smaller...

Last quarter investors snatched up 25% of single-family homes sold in the US, potentially making it more difficult for families to own homes....

Nobody really wants to listen to corporate executives talk for very long. Sure, every once in a while, they say something interesting. But it’s...

And they plan on spending even more...

We did the math....

They're shirking marriage and homeownership and prioritizing things they love....

Kyla Scanlon talks “In This Economy?”...

Workers say they like their jobs slightly more… but everything about them less...

Austin has lost its hot growth streak as the market cools....

Reports of dating apps’ death are greatly exaggerated....

How a multibillion-dollar industry tries to reel you in by infuriating you....

Compared with a half billion profit in Q1 2022, before Musk owned it....

First came the pandemic when most office workers worked from home. Then came the post-pandemic when companies tried to muscle people back into...

It’s a bot-eat-bot world. We’re just working in it....

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No such thing as bad press? Apple’s new Crush! ad for its latest iPad received such a negative reaction that the company issued an apology just...

Exceptional products or just exceptionally hard to leave?...

As commercial flights become more expensive and irritating, flying by semiprivate jet is now more appealing for some regular folks. The demand...

I was the first person to ask my Honda dealer how to turn off data sharing. It didn't go well....

Sales of the 7-year-old Switch console are holding up better than Nintendo expected, as the Japanese company reported shifting 15.7 million units...

American consumer behavior is often explained in acronyms. There are yuppies (young urban professionals), dinks (dual income, no kids), and Henrys...

A conversation with DTC mogul Joshua Siegel, who’s trying to change the way we plan for death....

You’ll be seeing a lot of orange glasses this summer, thanks to a concentrated marketing effort from the 164 year-old Campari Group...

A former Greenlight employee sued the hedge fund, alleging it misrepresented his employment history....

Skyrocketing demand for new transformers is overstripping supply, and the shortfall is wreaking havoc on vital industries across the economy....

Greener linings Shares in salad seller Sweetgreen jumped a whopping 34% on Friday, after the company beat Wall Street’s expectations, as revenues...

The account is a whale in a position in which there are few natural buyers....

Tesla is way, way more exposed to the will of retail investors than almost any other stock....

Tesla’s CEO was sued by a guy with nine shares, Costco is basically a car dealer, Indian investors LOVE trading options, and Bill Gross is the...

Research has shown that most "stock market influencers" are actually really bad stock pickers....

P (YC) = 1 Many things get described as “a certainty” or “a guarantee” when in fact the difference between 90% likely, 99% likely, and 99.9%...

The US labor market showed signs of cooling in April, and investors are rejoicing. Job growth of 175,000 came in well below the consensus estimate...

OpenAI just welcomed Vox Media and the Atlantic into the fold, making them the latest news organizations to license their journalism to train...

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After laying dormant for three years, the Twitter account @TheRoaringKitty started posting again, leading to a new meme stock rally. But is the...

Facebook told Axios it’s starting to make progress luring back the young users who’ve seemingly vacated the platform. The company shared that...

The online sensations just raised $100 million...

The most popular gym in the US doesn't actually have enough gym space for all of its members to get fit....

Unstable coins....

Kohl’s stock tanked today after it slashed guidance and doled out a lackluster earnings report. That’s surely not pleasing to any of its investors,...

Traders are taking profits in the boldest wagers that were made ahead of this week’s surge in GameStop. In particular, we’re talking about the...

Texas notched the second-best GDP growth in the nation last year... now it might be getting a stock exchange...

Growth, inflation, and unemployment are all sending the same message....

Skyrocketing demand for new transformers is overstripping supply, and the shortfall is wreaking havoc on vital industries across the economy....

A TikTok ban could affect a wide variety of companies...

A British entertainment company became a powerhouse in London’s West End. Now it’s turning its sights to the bright lights of Broadway....

Nicolai Tangen, the CEO who holds the purse strings of Norway’s $1.6 trillion sovereign wealth fund, thinks that his fellow Europeans don’t quite...

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group tumbled just over 13% after news broke that former President Donald Trump was found guilty on all 34...

There’s something unusual going on in shares of GameStop right meow. On Sunday evening, Keith Gill, aka The Roaring Kitty aka DeepFuckingValue,...

Depending on how you look at it, this retail meme stock moment is either winding down or going back to its roots. GameStop and AMC are both down...

Even though the company seems to have captured the broader public’s interest in AI, Sam Altman’s passion project has become a PR nightmare....

ScarJo’s voice ain’t the only drama… More turmoil is brewing at OpenAI after two of the ChatGPT maker’s top safety execs resigned. OpenAI chief...

Bitcoin mining may be destined for smaller, and better, things.  Industry execs see the industry shifting into smaller operations and the background...

At one point yesterday, Reddit shares were up over 15% (before fading in later trading) as the social media platform posted its first set of...

Reusable plastic… is getting a lot of use. Years of climbing prices and high rates have Americans increasingly relying on their credit cards....

He’s the latest in a long line of popular American financial tricksters who, by flouting both the odds and authority, turn the logic of money...

How the helicopter fleet quietly became America's biggest airborne ambulance....

It has huge repercussions on the people and companies who sell those goods....

The golden arches of history are long, but they bend back towards offering Americans cheap food. Shares of McDonald’s rose 2.6%, their best session...

For years, the success of the two largest consumer-tech platforms in America — Amazon and Meta — moved in lockstep with the US retail entrepreneurs...

Up in the air Now more than 15 years-old, Airbnb is doing its best to keep things exciting for guests. It already lists some quirky stays for...

Cart before the horse During the pandemic, e-commerce boomed. Many people expected that trend to continue — the “new normal” was, after all,...

Which industries dominate arena sponsorships reveal larger economic trends era by era...

Social media has been flooded with investment scams, so I decided to find out how they’d try to reel me in....

In a chaotic job market, sometimes you need a little professional help....

It’s not China’s fault...

The company hasn’t been the same since Sam Altman’s return — and its treatment of Scarlett Johansson should concern everyone...

They're shirking marriage and homeownership and prioritizing things they love....

Tesla has issued another recall, this one over seat belts that fail to warn drivers when they’re unbelted, Reuters reports. The struggling electric...