Inside Europeâs most innovative companies
Europe spends less of its GDP on research and development than the U.S., Japan, or China. Its R&D intensity has held at roughly 2.1% for years, compared with 3.45% in…
Finance
Kevin Warsh showed that heâs decisively not Trumpâs âsock puppetââand markets didnât like it
Before Kevin Warsh stepped up to the podium Wednesday afternoon, no one really knew which Warsh would show up: the hawk or the âsock puppet.â There was the young, spry,…
PayPal mafia member and exâSequoia steward Roelof Botha joins SpaceX boardâreuniting with Elon Musk after decades
Roelof Botha, longtime investor and former steward at Sequoia Capital, has joined the board of SpaceX, a filing revealed. The news comes less than a week after SpaceXâs historic IPO…
âSocial Security is on a collision course toward insolvency,â watchdog says. It hasnât been this bad since 1983
Social Security is hurtling toward a fiscal cliff that, if left unaddressed, will force an automatic 22% benefit cut for tens of millions of retirees, survivors, and their dependents in…
The new problem for millennial parents in the Northeast: the million-dollar starter home
They waited out the pandemic boom. They saved longer, rented longer, delayed longer, and watched the typical first-time homebuyer age climb to a record 40. Now, the buyers who did…
He fled Iran for the American dream, became a millionaire, and could have retiredâinstead, he built the health tech that saved his father from cancer
Ardy Arianpour fled Tehran at six years old with his family and four suitcases. Forty years later, heâs helped scale a $1 billion acquisition, saved his fatherâs life with his…
Vietnam has to find $200 billion to fund its ambitious growth agenda. Techcombankâs CEO thinks that has to come from overseas
When Techcombank CEO Jens Lottner looks at Vietnamâs growth ambitions, he sees a simple mismatch: big plans, not enough money. Vietnamâs economy grew by just over 8% in 2025, the…
The CEO of $3 billion Michaels tells young workers to quit daydreaming and take risks because âthe universe rewards doing things in actionâ
In an uncertain economy where workers are keeping their heads down amid layoffs and hiring freezes, many may forget that the biggest career opportunities can come from taking risks. However,…
A ChatGPT prompt almost killed Ryan Serhantâs $50 million NYC penthouse deal. Hereâs how he saved it
AI can drudge up untrustworthy sources or just feel kind of âoff,â but the technology has also been pretty consequential for some business owners. In fact, celebrity real estate agent…
The jet fuel crisis never existed, sources say
The end of the conflict with Iran will be accompanied by a sigh of relief from anyone planning air travel. For months, jet passengers have worried that flights might be…