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“The situation creates the illusion of a dynamic economy ⁠that, in reality, conceals an explosive situation which an economic shock, such as an ambitious package of sanctions against banks … could trigger.” bit.ly/3TvZJJr

The company employs college students, working parents, and caregivers who desperately need a workaround. They can call the shots on their part-time schedule—whether that means unloading trucks before sunrise or working a sanitation shift after the kids are asleep. bit.ly/4vo2auQ

The past week has seen three rounds of strikes by the U.S. military, which is responding to Iranian attacks on commercial ships and defending a route that follows the Omani coast. According to Central Command, U.S. forces hit a total of 300 Iranian targets. bit.ly/4yxqT2W

Assuming a 7% annual return, more than 90% of the account’s eventual value comes from decades of compounding, not deposits. “The real engine isn’t the deposits—it’s time. That’s why starting early puts someone so far ahead.” bit.ly/4vq3m0Y

The estranged 53-year-old son of Rupert Murdoch bought three tranches of SpaceX stock. Two of those tranches, worth $50 million each at the time, were acquired in 2019 and 2020 via a private investment firm. He bought another $20 million as a personal investment in 2019. bit.ly/4guCp8D

Moyn has written an indictment of America’s quiet slide into generational inequality, in which older, disproportionately wealthy voters and homeowners shape the economy — and America’s democracy — to their advantage while insisting they’re really the ones who are under siege. bit.ly/4bxX3RJ

Kavanaugh said Messi inspires rather than commands. He believes the Argentine captain motivates teammates through his actions. “I think leadership is, especially in business and in sport, it is something that is very powerful when it’s done the right way.” bit.ly/4yiGS4u

In a 2024 In Good Company interview, Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume offered advice for Gen Z: follow your passion. As we count down to the reveal of the 2026 #Global500 list, we’re spotlighting founders and business leaders from the world’s largest companies. bit.ly/3TBU4i6

“There’s a bill that’s coming due. The market thinks, ‘Oh yeah, things are going back to normal.’ But, watching Iran for as long I have, I don’t think that’s really going to happen. That hasn’t been the modus operandi for Iran for the last 45 years.” bit.ly/3RflVH0

Bitcoin is in its latest four-year cycle, stubborn inflation is expected to lead to Fed rate hikes, and leverage is getting squeezed out of the system. bit.ly/3RazF5R

What separates tech workers from the rest of early retirees, however, is just how often the nature of their work changes. Over just the last 30 years, there’s been the advent of desktop PCs, the internet, smartphones, cloud computing, and now AI. bit.ly/4fhbfzR

The solution could echo the famous Old Testament story where Solomon orders a baby claimed by two women to be cut in half. Oman has drafted a proposal to manage traffic in the strait through two separately controlled routes, sources told CNN. bit.ly/4yfORzp

A recently surfaced survey of Democratic Socialists of America members showed that 13% were white-collar workers, down from 21% in 2017 but up from just 3% in 2013. In addition, 9% worked in the tech sector in 2021. bit.ly/4w2fLtc

According to a New York Fed survey, 47% of service firms and 44% of manufacturers that paid tariffs directly said they have more tariff-induced price increases to pass on to consumers. bit.ly/4aQW4fo

Jersey Mike’s has filed for an initial public offering, and its disclosures reveal just how much its founder and former CEO Peter Cancro and his family collected in compensation and other perks. bit.ly/4vQZhDZ

The reason England picked Kansas City—over cities with more international name recognition—comes down to $700 million. That’s what the region has invested in soccer infrastructure over the past 15 years, before the World Cup host title was awarded. bit.ly/4pd3Hm2

She described a pursuit of “optionality”: wealthy Americans obtaining additional residencies or golden visas in Italy, Portugal, Jersey in the Channel Islands, Australia and New Zealand, noting clients are “somewhat concerned about policy risk in this country.” bit.ly/4vpZjBI

The secret to RMG’s success is counterintuitive. The default answer to any prospective client is no, Rosenfield said. His reasoning is that by starting from a point of no, you can better identify red flags or mismatches early on. bit.ly/4vnEeYA

The path for its eventual boom came in 2013, when the company co-developed the world’s first high-bandwidth memory chip with AMD. When the AI boom arrived and companies realized they needed HBM to train LLMs, SK Hynix had a decade-long lead on rivals Samsung and Micron. bit.ly/4h1XF5O

World Cup watchers first noticed Haaland matched his Norwegian-made KKNEKKI elastics to the colors of Norway’s national kits – red with the team’s home look, black with the away shirt, and a red-white-blue KKNEKKI bundle for fans who want to wear the national colors. bit.ly/3R85agU