The S&P 500 just hit a new high. ‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry thinks it could bring a 1987-style fall.

“The actual date of death ultimately affects only the surviving beneficiaries.”

Japan is not in crisis—and that may be its greatest blind spot. With the strength of a system built over decades, the country has high trust, deep institutional capacity, and substantial accumulated assets. Households, firms, and public institutions have acted as shock absorbers: Companies have prioritized employment stability over restructuring, and households have saved and…

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress capable of carrying nuclear weapons has been operated by the United States Air Force since the fifties and is still in service, being constantly upgraded and will be flying until the year 2040. The graveyard and its chopped up B-52s at Davis-Monthan AFB outside Tucson Arizona is a result of the…

Independent agencies have no shortage of AI-powered solutions to choose from. Tools that can reduce manual work, improve speed, and support better decision-making are everywhere in today’s market. Many well-intentioned leaders manage AI rollouts as discovery processes. By providing real use cases, training, and promises of improved efficiency, they expect employees to learn and embrace…

A turnaround story could be in the works at Ford, which gets less love than GM on Wall Street.

Robinhood beat analyst expectations on several fronts for the second quarter. That included record revenue of $1.31 billion, which beat estimates of $1.25-$1.28 billion, and earnings per share, which came in at $0.62 versus the $0.42 analysts had predicted. The strong performance was driven in part by an uptick in Robinhood’s Gold subscription business and…