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With 7 out of 10 Americans living paycheck to paycheck, personal finance expert David Bach is issuing a wake-up call: The "automatic economy" is either building your wealth or dismantling it.  In a recent appearance on the "Mel Robbins Podcast," the best-selling author of "The Automatic...

Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape parts of the labor market, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said. The technology may displace workers before creating new jobs, she said last month at the 42nd annual National Association for Business Economics Economic Policy Conference in...

Shaquille O'Neal has spent most of his life being the rich one in the room. The NBA Hall of Famer built a fortune through basketball, endorsements and business deals. So when a podcast host asked him to imagine dating a woman worth $100 billion, the conversation quickly turned into a debate about...

Elon Musk has never been one for modest projections, but his latest forecast makes a typical bull market look like a rounding error. Speaking remotely to the Abundance Summit last week, Musk told XPRIZE founder Peter Diamandis that the global economy is on the verge of an explosion so massive it...

Rapper and actor Ice-T sees a hard truth about entertainment's future. Artificial intelligence may reshape music videos and even acting careers, he recently posted on X. "The days of the expensive videos are over. There isn't even MTV. AI is the only sensible way to add visuals to a song. You can...

Everyone talks about passive income, but most ideas sound unrealistic or require huge upfront investments. One entrepreneur discovered something much simpler: renting baby gear to visiting families. In a recent Reddit discussion, the entrepreneur explained how a small experiment turned into a...

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban once delivered a frank message to business owners who resist paying higher wages: if companies underpay workers, everyone else ends up covering the cost. Cuban explained that his views on the minimum wage changed after he discovered something troubling inside his...

Some people picture marriage as candlelight dinners and long walks. Shaquille O'Neal sees it more like a full-time job with a clear role description. NBA legend and business mogul O'Neal joined the "It's Giving" podcast host Sarah Fontenot in March 2025 and offered a blunt breakdown of how he views...

Millions of seniors paid higher Medicare premiums last year because of overpayments to private insurers in the Medicare Advantage program. Those excess payments increased Medicare Part B premiums by about $212 per enrollee last year, adding up to roughly $13.4 billion in additional premiums paid by...

New business creation in the U.S. is surging, and entrepreneur Mark Cuban suggests artificial intelligence is a big reason why. In a recent post on X, Cuban shared a chart from Apollo Academy showing weekly U.S. business applications climbing to some of the highest levels on record. “New...

Artificial intelligence taking over human jobs is no longer just a fictional idea or exaggerated fear — it is quickly turning into a reality unfolding before our eyes. AI-related layoffs are likely to increase in the coming days and push the labor market to a point of no return, Moody's Analytics...

Small changes to daily habits could dramatically lower health care costs in the U.S., according to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz. Speaking in a recent interview on New York’s WABC-AM, Oz said Americans don't need extreme lifestyle changes to improve...

Rising volatility in stocks and cryptocurrencies is pushing some investors toward alternative assets such as art for portfolio diversification. Art is no longer just an investment for billionaires and the ultra-wealthy. Recent trends show younger Americans are increasingly entering the art market...

For years, working in television and film in Los Angeles meant steady union pay and a comfortable middle-class life for many crew members. But one veteran worker now says that reality has vanished. After more than a year without work, the 55-year-old film professional recently shared their...

For much of the past two years, the conversation around artificial intelligence has centered on one fear: that machines would soon start replacing white-collar workers at scale. But new labor market data suggests something very different may be happening. Instead of disappearing, many tech jobs...