All about ‘yield curves’ – and the big move for stocks they’re pointing to in 2025

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In my 50-plus years of running money, I’ve noticed that the biggest market moves come from factors that have gone unnoticed – and right now, there’s a doozy lurking under the table. Amid all the tariff tumult of the past few months, the global yield curve has been quietly re-steepening. Also note that the previously long-watched […]


A $100K Prize to Find The Next Big Story

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. A $100K Prize to Find The Next Big Story Eight finalists for The Next Big Story will receive […]


China’s exporters rush to beat Trump’s next big tariff deadline

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China’s exports regained momentum in June as firms rushed to place orders to capitalize on a fragile tariff truce between Beijing and Washington ahead of a looming deadline next month, with shipments to Southeast Asian transit hubs particularly strong. Businesses on both sides of the Pacific are waiting to see whether the world’s two largest […]


Apple mulls using OpenAI or Anthropic to power Siri in big reversal: report

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Apple is weighing using artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic or OpenAI to power a new version of Siri, instead of its own in-house models, Bloomberg News reported Monday. The iPhone maker has had discussions with both companies about using their large language models for Siri, asking them to train versions of their LLMs that could run […]


Why are we so obsessed with stories about a group of friends in the big city? ‹

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June 25, 2025, 1:06pm The “friends in the city” yarn has a long lineage, spanning every time-bound medium I can think of. Its classic structure follows three to five pals out of a fiercely bonded adolescence into floppier, fractured adult life. Between the covers, tonal mileage can vary. But Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, Meg […]


The Next Big Trend in Book Cover Design

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Other Big Book Cover Trend Sure, you’ve noticed that all romance covers look the same these days, […]


Lawyers urging ‘caution’ on antitrust remedies in Google search trial have cozy ties to Big Tech

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A group of prominent lawyers claimed to be objective last month as they urged a federal judge to take “caution” when imposing antitrust remedies against Google’s online search empire — but many of them have cozy ties to Big Tech, The Post has learned. US District Judge Amit Mehta is expected to rule by August […]


Tesla already had big problems. Then Musk went to battle with Trump

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President Donald Trump holds a news conference with Elon Musk to mark the end of the Tesla CEO’s tenure as a special government employee overseeing the U.S. DOGE Service on Friday May 30, 2025 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Tom Brenner | The Washington Post | Getty Images Tesla has […]


Apple, Google, Cash App alums ditch Big Tech to build on bitcoin

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AUSTIN — On a Friday morning last spring, Mark Suman called out sick from his job as a senior engineering project manager at Apple and made his way downtown to a place called the Bitcoin Commons, a sort of clubhouse for enthusiasts of the world’s largest cryptocurrency, situated a few blocks south of the Texas […]


Big Tech’s Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama Drama

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Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | iHeartRadio This week, with the tech world in chaos over President Trump’s tariffs, we look at how four specific companies are navigating the new day-to-day reality. Then, the A.I. researcher Daniel Kokotajlo returns to the show to discuss a new set of […]