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Gold blasted past $5,300 per ounce last month as President Donald Trump’s hawkish foreign policy and tariff threats sent investors to safer assets. At the same time, U.S. deficit spending swelled to what the Congressional Budget Office called an...

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week, remaining within the historically healthy range of the past few years.Applications for jobless aid for the week ending Feb. 7 fell by 5,000 to 227,000 from the previous...

AI Influencer Matt Shumer penned a viral blog on X about AI’s potential to disrupt, and ultimately automate, almost all knowledge work that has racked up more than 55 million views in the past 24 hours.Shumer’s 5,000-word essay certainly...

For the past decade I have volunteered at St. Francis Inn, a soup kitchen in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia.Kensington, for those not from Philly, has long had a reputation for potent but affordable street...

The public markets are thinning, the private markets are exploding, and AI is wholly destabilizing both.Consider the past week’s software meltdown: AI fears and stalled market dynamics vaporized $1 trillion in market value, rippling down to private companies. “The funding...

Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly adding to his growing list of luxury homes with a waterfront property in the most in-demand section of one of most exclusive neighborhoods in America.The Meta CEO and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, are reportedly...

“Merzoni” isn’t a neologism that easily trips off the tongue, and it hasn’t fully taken hold in the world of European politics.Yet, for months, a pragmatic alliance between German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has...

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s chemicals group Ineos is seeking compensation from Belgium’s Flemish government for suspending the permit of its flagship European...

James Van Der Beek, a heartthrob who starred in coming-of-age dramas at the dawn of the new millennium, shooting to fame playing the titular character in “Dawson’s Creek” and in later years mocking his own hunky persona, has died. He was 48.“Our beloved...

U.S. employers added a surprisingly strong 130,000 jobs last month, but government revisions cut 2024-2025 U.S. payrolls by hundreds of thousands.The unemployment rate fell to 4.3%, the Labor Department said Wednesday.The report included major revisions that reduced the number of jobs...