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Mike Rowe on America’s great tradesperson shortage: ‘I don’t care what your politics are. Math doesn’t care, either’ | Fortune
Mike Rowe offered a blunt way to describe America’s skilled-worker shortage: the country is losing tradespeople faster than it is replacing them.“For every five tradespeople who retire this year, two replace them,” Rowe said during a Ford Pro Accelerate...
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Wilbur Ross says New York’s pied-à-terre tax targets people who ‘can’t retaliate at the ballot box’ | Fortune
This week’s been rough for proponents of New York City’s pied-à-terre tax. On Monday, former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross filed a lawsuit against the state, calling the tax unconstitutional. On Tuesday, a judge ruled the city had to rollback...
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AI is redefining operating models. CFOs can lead the transformation | Fortune
On a recent afternoon in downtown Boston, we sat around a cluster of tables with fellow CFOs and other business leaders. The topic for discussion? How AI is transforming the finance function and enterprises at large. It’s not a novel...
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‘No way’ the yuan challenges the U.S. dollar—though the yen and the pound may have more to fear, says Standard Chartered’s China CEO |...
Despite its gains in global trade, the yuan isn’t going to replace the U.S. dollar in global reserve holdings any time soon, Standard Chartered China CEO Jean Lu argued on Wednesday, even as Beijing tries to encourage greater use...
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Robinhood just rolled out trading agents to millions—and investing may never be the same | Fortune
Starting this week, all of Robinhood’s roughly 29 million customers will have access to trading agents powered by OpenAI and Anthropic. Customers will be able to choose between various OpenAI and Anthropic models, and instruct the agents to carry...
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Judge orders Mamdani administration to cancel pied-à-terre tax notices and start over | Fortune
A Staten Island judge on Tuesday threw out New York City’s rollout of its new pied-à-terre tax. He ordered Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration to cancel the notices it sent to property owners and restart the process of deciding who...
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Geico has one of advertising’s most famous mascots. Its CMO says that’s no longer enough | Fortune
Geico has the kind of brand recognition most marketers spend their careers chasing. Its Gecko has been selling car insurance for more than 25 years, while slogans like “15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance”...
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Trump’s new AI website America.gov said Biden won 2020—then the White House made the chatbot stop answering | Fortune
The Trump administration has lauded its revamped website America.gov as a way to simplify Americans’ access to information and services scattered across a plethora of agency sites, but President Donald Trump probably won’t like some of the answers his...
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The U.S. just banned nearly $1 billion in Canadian imports—and 87% of it is booze | Fortune
U.S.-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles.The ban amounts to...
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Cities keep shelling out taxpayer money for sports stadiums, yet the economics almost never makes sense
Americans are crazy about sports. But whether that passion requires taxpayers to subsidize new facilities every time leagues and franchises ask for them needs rigorous scrutiny.A lot of money is at stake. For 2025, the...
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Ousted general warned of years-long missile defense shortage before Iran war
Washington — In late December, two months before the U.S. war with Iran began, Army...