Category: Money

Remember when Seattle was the golden child? A decade ago, tech money flooded the Pacific Northwest. Amazon and Microsoft minted millionaires daily. The Puget Sound Regional Council clocked 40,000 new jobs a year. It was a gold rush. Now? The gold is gone. One-third of downtown is a ghost town. Job postings have cratered. Even […]

SpaceX just hurled its monstrous metal tower into the sky again. The 407-foot Starship roared out of South Texas on Friday, carrying 20 high-tech Starlink satellites on a half-world trip. NASA watched closely. They need this giant tin can to land astronauts on the moon eventually, so every scrap of data matters. It actually survived […]

Check your cartons. Midwest Poultry Services is pulling nearly 1.6 million dozen eggs off the shelves. The culprit? Salmonella Enteritidis. The FDA sounded the alarm on Wednesday, targeting both white and brown cage-free shell eggs stamped out of the company’s Texas facilities. That is a lot of bad omelets. If you shop at Kroger in […]

Africa wants a piece of the AI boom. It won’t get it. Not unless governments stop hoarding control over their electricity grids. That is the blunt reality facing the continent as tech giants look for places to dump their power-hungry data centers. Right now, the math is brutal. Africa holds a measly 5.5% of the […]

Alphabet beat expectations. Big deal. Wall Street didn’t care. The tech giant’s cloud business surged over 80 percent, but all anyone could look at was the eye-watering price tag of the AI arms race. Alphabet jacked up its capital expenditure forecasts yet again, pushing this year’s projected AI-related spending past the $200 billion mark. That […]

T. Denny Sanford had one final goal. He wanted to drain his bank accounts to zero before he kicked the bucket. He didn’t quite make it. The South Dakota banking tycoon died on July 18 at the ripe old age of 90, leaving behind a legacy of massive giving and a still-staggering fortune. By March, […]

America’s wealth gap is a joke. The bottom half of this country scrambles for a measly $4.27 trillion out of a staggering $174 trillion national pie. Meanwhile, the top 0.1% sits on over $25 trillion. The next tier of ultra-wealthy controls another $30 trillion. Federal Reserve data proves it. Now, artificial intelligence is pumping the […]

Even the tech elite are bleeding. When a Microsoft salary no longer guarantees a middle-class existence in Seattle, you know the game is rigged. Families who once thought they had it made are now dumping their homes, cutting back on basic groceries, and praying they don’t get hit in the next round of corporate layoffs. […]

There is a nasty little bug making the rounds, and it does exactly what you think it does. It ruins lives. Specifically, from the bathroom floor. Federal health officials are sounding the alarm again. Wash your damn veggies. The CDC has already clocked 1,645 confirmed cases of Cyclospora across 34 states. It has sent 141 […]

Everyone wants the magic shot. But for the elderly, that quick fix might come with a steep price tag. A massive new study suggests that while Eli Lilly’s blockbuster obesity drug Zepbound works wonders for waistlines, it might also push vulnerable seniors over the edge into severe, life-threatening frailty. Let’s be clear. The sky isn’t […]