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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
There’s a particular kind of moment in financial history that only becomes obvious in retrospect — a month, sometimes just a few weeks, where enough things happen close enough together that you look back later and say: that was the turn. There is a good chance that March 2026 will…
There is a specific type of discomfort that results from careful news rather than bad news. It’s easy to ignore screaming headlines about AI replacing human labor. Since at least 2016, they have been coming in waves, and the unemployment rate hasn’t actually dropped. A carefully crafted research paper from…
During a gaming tournament in New York City in the summer of 2019, Kyle Giersdorf, a 16-year-old from Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, won three million dollars and a new username that became well-known online: Bugha. The Fortnite World Cup was taking place at Arthur Ashe Stadium, which typically hosts professional tennis matches.…