Three decades of tax cuts, entitlement expansion, and crisis spending — all signed by boomer presidents — have pushed debt held by the public to 100% of GDP for the first time since World War II. The bill lands on the next generation.
The former first son is turning his infamous laptop controversy into a speculative crypto play, with a structure critics are already calling a repeat of the $TRUMP token debacle.
With Washington imposing 50% duties on Canadian goods and declining to renew USMCA, Ottawa is accelerating a long-overdue pivot to Asia — but awareness gaps on both sides of the Pacific threaten to slow the capital flows.
Ulrich Siegmund led the Alternative for Germany to a resounding win in Saxony-Anhalt, falling just short of a majority as voters rewarded a hard line on immigration and nostalgia for stability over Berlin's establishment consensus.
At the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau on Sept. 8, 2026, economist Louis-Vincent Gave argued that geopolitical turbulence is pushing investors toward Chinese government bonds — not because yields are higher, but because the returns have been 'very good' while U.S. Treasuries have delivered 'horrible returns.'
At the Fortune Leaders Forum on Sept. 8, 2026, leaders from BCG, Starbucks and Syngenta converged on one prescription: build organizations that can change course fast, or fall behind.
Brent crude crossed the $100 threshold in early September 2026, squeezing consumers at the pump and raising the cost of nearly every good that moves by truck or ship.
Ineffable Intelligence, valued at $5 billion after Europe's largest-ever seed round, has added six 'cofounders' pulled from Google DeepMind, InstaDeep and venture firm Flying Fish — a fresh sign that private capital, not corporate bureaucracy, is setting the pace in the race for AI superintelligence.
