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Texas Stock Exchange CEO: exchanges can build on Exxon’s retail model to rein in proxy advisors

Exxon empowered retail to beat the proxy duopoly and secure its move to Texas. The Texas Stock Exchange is scaling that strategy for all issuers.

By James H. LeeMay 28, 2026

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Wendy’s U.S. President: the CEO burger battles exposed a truth every brand leader needs to hear

By Pete SuerkenMay 28, 2026

We gave our 5,000 employees a week to do nothing but learn AI. We learned the biggest blockers are human ones

By Rob GiglioMay 28, 2026

I’ve been a CEO for 25 years. The AI hype and hysteria is getting old

By Gil MandelzisMay 27, 2026

The boardroom wants answers on AI. Are you ready?

By Brandi ThomasMay 28, 2026

How Sam Altman fooled Sundar Pichai — and pushed Google into cannibalizing itself

By Sunil SharanMay 27, 2026

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Law The EEOC chair knows gutting diversity reporting will blind the agency to discrimination. She’s doing it anyway.

By Jacqueline MunisMay 28, 2026

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Big Tech What’s rarer than a unicorn? Anthropic didn’t just join the Series H club, it almost became the first $1 trillion private company ever

By Eva RoytburgMay 28, 2026

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AI Tokenmaxxing is over. That’s because it never measured what really counts to see ROI from AI

By Jeremy KahnMay 28, 2026

Federal vs. private student loans: How to choose (and why it matters)

Personal Finance Federal vs. private student loans: How to choose (and why it matters)

By Joseph HostetlerMay 28, 2026

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Retail Starbucks quietly retired its AI agent just months after deployment after it miscounted coffee shop inventories and slowed down baristas

By Sasha RogelbergMay 28, 2026

A Google engineer is facing federal charges after allegedly using his employer’s confidential data to pocket $1.2 million on Polymarket

Investing A Google engineer is facing federal charges after allegedly using his employer’s confidential data to pocket $1.2 million on Polymarket

By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezMay 28, 2026

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Economy More Americans are going hungry now than during the pandemic, as people face a ‘remarkable’ rise in food insecurity, New York Fed says

By Jacqueline MunisMay 28, 2026

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Personal Finance UBS says Ron DeSantis has a problem with his plan to help 92% of homeowners save on property taxes: His own state’s data

By Nick LichtenbergMay 28, 2026

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Commentary The Strait of Hormuz is the fourth large supply shock this decade. Welcome to the new era of global disorder

By Jon HilsenrathMarch 21, 2026

Commentary The closed Strait of Hormuz is testing Asia’s energy security. The answer lies across the Pacific—in Canada
By Barrett BingleyMarch 15, 2026

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Commentary The entry-level job market is the worst it’s been in 37 years. Stop blaming Gen Z

By Janelle Jones and Nia LawMarch 21, 2026

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Commentary The U.S. just hit $39 trillion in debt. Here’s the constitutional fix that Congress won’t touch

By Steve H. Hanke and David M. WalkerMarch 20, 2026

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Commentary The 19th century banking problem that AI hasn’t solved yet

By Silvio Savarese and Sabastian NilesMarch 20, 2026

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Commentary Unicorns are flush with cash and stuck. A new kind of startup crisis is taking hold in 2026

By David SprengMarch 20, 2026

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Commentary Intel and Toyota made perfectly logical decisions. That’s exactly how they killed their best brands

By David PlacekMarch 20, 2026

Commentary 75% of resumes never reach a human: the new rules of job searching in the AI era
By Alex ChepovoiMarch 15, 2026

Commentary Why my $150 million startup thinks it can solve the $406 billion loneliness problem

By Fabio BinMarch 20, 2026

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Commentary Anthony Scaramucci: America’s billionaires and presidents have forgotten the lesson that destroyed Rome

By Anthony ScaramucciMarch 19, 2026

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Commentary China doesn’t need a trade deal to win. Here’s what CEOs are missing

By Ram CharanMarch 19, 2026

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Commentary Mick Mulvaney: Stop calling it a ‘prediction market.’ It’s sports betting

By Mick MulvaneyMarch 19, 2026

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Commentary AI’s memory chip shortage is quietly taxing the entire economy

By Sha RabiiMarch 19, 2026

Commentary The U.S. is winning the AI chatbot war — and losing the one that actually matters
By Vivek RanadiveMarch 14, 2026

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Commentary The $3.4 billion lesson Big Pharma needs to learn: its shelved drugs could save millions of patients

By Annette Bakker and Andrew W. LoMarch 19, 2026

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Commentary From pilot mania to portfolio discipline: how the best companies are escaping AI purgatory

By Keith Ferrazzi, Wendy Smith and Dan RobertsMarch 19, 2026

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Commentary My daughters are entering the workforce in the AI era. Hard work isn’t enough anymore

By Dennis KozakMarch 19, 2026

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Commentary I run the world’s largest employee mental health company. Leaders are treating AI adoption as a tech problem. It’s not

By Paul PoseyMarch 18, 2026

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Commentary The U.S. attacked Iran to show its power but the war is already lost. Epic Fury looks like an Epic Fail

By Guillaume LongMarch 18, 2026

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Commentary 66% of CEOs are freezing hiring while betting billions on AI. It’s a costly miscalculation

By Katica RoyMarch 18, 2026

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Commentary Jack Schlossberg has a warning for America’s CEOs: you’re living in my ‘world’ now

By Jack SchlossbergMarch 18, 2026

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Commentary The AI reset is here — and every industry should be worried

By Carolyn DewarMarch 18, 2026

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Commentary Trump’s Iran War looks improvised. It isn’t. Here’s the playbook he’s been running for decades

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven TianMarch 17, 2026

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Commentary The next energy superpower will make its own fuel

By Gregory ConstantineMarch 17, 2026

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Commentary The equity compensation gap: why even your most senior leaders are leaving money on the table

By Kate WingetMarch 17, 2026

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Commentary America’s $38 trillion debt crisis is already here. The reckoning comes next

By David K. YoungMarch 17, 2026

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Commentary AI is making productivity obsolete. The leaders who thrive next will have something machines can’t touch

By Jeff BurninghamMarch 17, 2026

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Commentary Your electricity bill keeps rising. Here’s what’s actually causing it—and how to fix it

By Josh MaceyMarch 17, 2026

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Commentary 78% of girls hate their bodies by 17. A former NCAA champion says running is the fix

By Nnenna LynchMarch 17, 2026

Commentary Companies are pouring billions into AI and cutting training budgets. It’s a losing strategy

By Wendi SafstromMarch 17, 2026

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Commentary The ‘average rent’ mirage: why we need better numbers to understand urban economics

By Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh and Wayne YuMarch 16, 2026

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Commentary We’re a top investor relations firm and one of us spent over a decade on the inside. Here’s what boards need to know about engaging with activists

By Christine O'Brien and Lex SuvantoMarch 16, 2026

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Commentary From foundations to fluency: why upskilling is the key to Europe’s AI future

By Debbie WeinsteinMarch 16, 2026

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