Economy

North Carolina state Treasurer Brad Briner said the year’s hottest IPO is too expensive for his pension fund to own. Briner, who oversees roughly $200 billion for North Carolina’s teachers, firefighters and police officers, said the state has invested heavily in artificial intelligence startups OpenAI and Anthropic while avoiding a direct stake in SpaceX — […]

President-elect Donald Trump speaks at the U.S.-Mexico border on August 22, 2024 south of Sierra Vista, Arizona. Rebecca Noble | Getty Images News | Getty Images A signature campaign promise of President-elect Donald Trump is to initiate mass deportations of undocumented residents of the United States. At a Sept. 12 campaign stop in Tucson, Arizona […]

From ballooning credit card debt to unexpected emergency expensesany number of things can spark money worries. And the key to overcoming it starts with your mindset, says Aja Evans, a financial therapist and author of “Feel Good Finance.” That’s why she advises many of her clients to tell themselves one phrase “as much as humanly […]

Mementojpeg | Moment | Getty Images Borrowers should ‘not let it get this far’ Borrowers should receive numerous notices from their student loan servicers before they go into delinquency or default, said higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz. Usually, your payment has to be around 90 days late for it to be reported to the credit […]

In this photo, the logo of OpenAI is displayed on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying the photographs of Elon Musk and Sam Altman, in Ankara, Turkey, on March 14, 2024. Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anatolia | Getty Images Elon Musk is asking a federal court to stop OpenAI from converting […]

Rafael Enrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images Macroeconomic uncertainty and potential policy changes under the administration of President-elect Donald Trump have driven the stock market to new heights the past four weeks. But investors stand to benefit if they ignore short-term noise to focus instead on companies that can navigate challenges and deliver solid returns […]

When Ryan Shanahan, 41, decided to buy a house in Portland, Oregon, he knew from the start that he wanted his future home to be “net zero.”To be net zero is to cut greenhouse gas emissions to as close to zero as possible, with any remaining emissions reabsorbed from the atmosphere, by oceans and forests, for… […]

Siemens wind turbines operate on a wind farm in Marshalltown, Iowa, where many of Berkshire’s first big renewable investments were made over the past decade as the former MidAmerican Energy under now-Berkshire Energy was well situated in one of the nation’s top wind corridors.Timothy Fadek | Corbis News | Getty ImagesWith annual meeting season coming… […]

Sundar Pichai, CEO, AlphabetLluis Gene | AFP | Getty ImagesAlphabet CEO Sundar Pichai received $226 million in total compensation in 2022, most of which came through stock awards, according to a securities report filed by the company on Friday.Pichai was awarded $218 million in equities last year through a triennial stock grant. His annual salary… […]

Busakorn Pongparnit | Moment | Getty ImagesThe ability of ChatGPT to seize upon a specific, verifiable application in a focused business sector could go a long way to underscoring it as a monetizable asset. Current use cases for generative artificial intelligence may seem limited and a bit ad-hoc, but a big explosion in use cases… […]