Scott Bessent sends a shocking message to American banks
Opening a bank account in the United States does not require proof of citizenship. That may be about to change. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed on April 14 that an executive order requiring banks to collect citizenship information from their customers is “in process,” according to …
Read More44-year-old gas station chain makes rare closure after 26 years
While retail store closures have become increasingly common in recent years, gas stations have remained relatively resilient. Steady demand for transportation, despite economic uncertainty and more cautious consumer spending, has continued to support the industry. However, rising geopolitical …
Read MoreThousands of Lebanese head home despite warnings
Thousands defy warnings and head south after deal that could bolster efforts to end US-Israeli war against Iran
Read MoreA low-cost with a cult following is getting its first business class
Launched in 2003 out of the Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA) in northern England, the British low-cost airline Jet2 went unexpectedly viral in the summer of 2025 over an earlier commercial for its package holidays. The cheerful tune alongside the tagline “Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday” became a meme and …
Read MoreNvidia CEO makes surprising admission on OpenAI and Anthropic
The CEO of the company that supplies the chips powering the AI boom just admitted he should have owned more of it. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on the Dwarkesh Podcast on April 15 that Nvidia missed the chance to invest early in OpenAI and Anthropic, KuCoin reported. Huang called it a strategic …
Read MorePosthaste: Why Canadians might be doomed to suffer a ‘new normal’ for oil prices
A greater risk premium could become embedded in the price of crude even after the dust settles in Iran
Read MoreWalmart has $180 noise-canceling headphones for $29, and it has 100 hours of playback time
“They sound great, beyond my expectations.”
Read MoreFannie Mae predicts shift in mortgage rates, home prices
In my years of reporting on mortgages and the housing market, I’ve seen homebuyers worry about two main factors when house hunting: mortgage rates and home prices. I was in the same boat when buying my first home. I was aware of my purchase price limit, but I was shopping at a time when mortgage…
Read More25-year-old travel booking platform shuts down forever, cancels trips
When the first online travel booking platform started popping up in the mid-1990s, what at the time was seen as a niche way to book plane tickets ended up revolutionizing the industry to such a point that only travel agencies serving very niche audiences now manage to survive in the modern market. …
Read MoreAnthropic chief Dario Amodei: ‘I don’t want AI turned on our own people’
The tech entrepreneur on Claude Mythos, repercussions from the Pentagon dispute — and his message for the super-rich
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