Finance
Big Tech profits get $160bn boost from gains on stakes in other AI companies
Analysts say large paper windfalls on investments in OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX have muddied the tech sector’s earnings metrics
30 Aug 2026 1 min 0
Finance
Finance
Americans feel they have lost their agency
People increasingly blame large corporations for the sense that they have ever less control over their own lives
30 Aug 2026 1 min 0
Finance
Americans feel they have lost their agency
People increasingly blame large corporations for the sense that they have ever less control over their own lives
30 Aug 2026 1 min 0
Finance
My mother, 91, has dementia. Every bank says I need her signature to unlock her $100,000 stock certificate. What can I do?
“These shares are the only assets in her estate without designated beneficiaries.”
30 Aug 2026 1 min 0
Finance
My contractor handed my $42,000 pool upgrade to a subcontractor I had already rejected. What can I do?
“I specifically rejected Contractor A because of his reputation.”
30 Aug 2026 1 min 0
Finance
Does a 2% beneficiary inherit 100% if the 98% beneficiary dies in a car accident? Asking for a friend.
“I’m curious what would happen if the account owner were to die suddenly at the same time as the 98% beneficiary.”
30 Aug 2026 1 min 0
Finance
Am I too old for Roth conversions? I’m 84 and my wife is 77. We have $8 million saved.
“We are reluctant to pay a financial adviser 2% of assets — roughly $160,000 per year.”
30 Aug 2026 1 min 0
Finance
These charts show how leverage-happy investors are transforming the stock market
A rush of retail investors and quant funds has caused a shift toward more borrowed money and more short-term trading.
30 Aug 2026 1 min 0
Finance
Party balloons could become a ‘luxury’ as the Iran war spurs a helium shortage
Dollar Tree says a helium squeeze has hit sales of balloons and party supplies. Researchers note this could foreshadow higher costs for other industries that depend on the gas.
30 Aug 2026 1 min 0
Finance
Controversial Venezuelan executive courts investors after Trump oil deal
Alejandro Betancourt is the US’s primary partner in a company that will control more than 65bn barrels of oil reserves
30 Aug 2026 1 min 0
Finance
Friends with fiscal benefits
Cross-class friendships appear to be one of the strongest predictors of upward mobility for people in low socio-economic groups
30 Aug 2026 1 min 0
Finance
What’s the fiscal hit from higher yields?
A long answer to a simple question
30 Aug 2026 1 min 0