I didn't move to Mexico to save money. I moved to buy back my future What a family medical crisis taught me about retirement, caregiving and the value of having choices. Fortune · Oct 25
Reality Bites for Gen Xers doing retirement math: just 49% say they're on track, the worst of any generation Boomers and Gen Z get the generational fights. The middle child, the first 401(k) generation, has quietly become the least confident saver in America. Fortune · Oct 25
Rich Eisen went from SportsCenter to NFL Network to owning his show. Now he’s back at ESPN, betting ’90s nostalgia still sells The broadcaster and CEO is streaming on Disney+, airing on ESPN Radio, and mining ESPN’s archive for a SportsCenter nostalgia series. Fortune · Oct 25
Americans say the economy is bad but keep spending. Don’t mistake the midterm polls for a forecast Consumer confidence is at its lowest level since 2014, yet spending rose in August. Business leaders make the same mistake with election polls. Fortune · Oct 25
The experience economy keeps defying expectations. Maybe we’ve been looking at it all wrong Covid was supposed to break live events for good. Instead, the more digital life gets, the more people pay to be in the room. Fortune · Oct 25
‘We like to be first to be second’: How True Religion’s CEO is rebuilding the denim brand for Gen Z and millennials Michael Buckley has remade the early-2000s premium-denim label with $59 jeans, bedazzled everything, and concerts. Fortune · Oct 25
‘Nobody prepared them’: The ultrawealthy worry wealth will dull their heirs’ ‘drive and desire’ and so some aren’t telling them how much there is A Bank of America study found 61% of ultra-high-net-worth individuals are concerned about their children’s motivation. Fortune · Oct 25
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says neurodivergent workers will thrive in the AI era. An autistic psychologist says he has a point Daniel Wendler, the psychologist, warned against putting neurodivergent people on a pedestal. Fortune · Oct 25
The U.S. military and NASA have power problems. Nuclear microreactors might solve both Microreactors could power military operations from the Arctic to the moon—and even fuel the search for extraterrestrial life. Fortune · Oct 25
How Pepsi fell behind in the cola wars—and then lost KFC KFC’s switch to Coke is the latest sign of a decades-long slide, and PepsiCo’s CEO says fixing soda is now a priority. Fortune · Oct 25
The world's biggest producer of maple syrup has nearly exhausted its strategic reserves after Americans hoarded supplies ahead of Trump's tariffs The Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, which oversees the strategic syrup reserve, predicted the stockpile will be completely empty by February. Fortune · Oct 24
Here's the 'core economic flaw' in the AI bull case as stock and bond trades unravel, according to a top economist "So far, the AI payoff for firms has been slow to materialize, implying a growing reluctance to pay for AI services." Fortune · Oct 24
Every child will get AI. Not every child will get a teacher Today, you hear concerns that AI tools will be a privilege for wealthy kids only. But soon every child will have an AI tutor, just maybe not a human one. Fortune · Oct 24
France's latest debt warning describes a country where governance is breaking down — and even doing too little, too late is barely possible "The negative outlook reflects the increased risk that the fragmentation of France's political landscape will continue to impair the functioning of the country's legislative institutions." Fortune · Oct 24
Fortune · Oct 24 Half of workers are 'revenge quitting' and walking out on their jobs without notice—and the majority are loyal, longtime staff, report shows Workers are so done with toxic workplaces nearly half are quitting without warning, often after years of loyalty, to send a clear message to management.
Fortune · Oct 24 Jamie Dimon poached Warren Buffett’s protégé to run a $10 billion fund—he says Buffett’s response was ‘at least he’s going to you' Former Geico CEO Todd Combs had been at Berkshire since 2010.
Fortune · Oct 24 Jeff Bezos took 60 meetings to raise Amazon’s first $1 million. Now worth $361 billion, he says the cure for stress is to ‘take the first step’ Bezos worked through decades of stress to build the No. 1 Fortune 500 company.
Fortune · Oct 24 Rick Lazio: We've lost an auto race before, China's EV climb should worry us New tech won't help if U.S. factories can't produce it efficiently. Automakers and suppliers need incentives to invest in robotics and advanced equipment.
Fortune · Oct 24 Gen Z is treating the midterms like a market event. Boomers are treating them like weather A survey finds 72% of Gen Z investors have changed their portfolios ahead of the midterms, versus 17% of boomers. Here’s what it means.
Fortune · Oct 24 Here’s how much it costs to raise a child in every state in 2026: Where you live can impact the bill by more than $200,000 LendingTree pegs the 18-year cost of raising a child above $300,000 for the first time, but where you live can swing the bill by more than $210,000.
Fortune · Oct 24 Scammers used AI to clone her daughter’s voice and fake a kidnapping. A voice expert says every family needs a safe word A marketing professor who studies voice and persuasion says a familiar voice lowers our defenses. Here’s the simple fix she recommends.
Fortune · Oct 24 How a close look at the American Dream turned a top happiness expert into a specialist in despair: 'It’s harder to be poor in a very rich country' Brookings’ Carol Graham has spent decades measuring outcomes. Here's how her study of happiness led to work on despair — and what hope has to do with it.
Fortune · Oct 24 ‘Sudden wealth syndrome 2.0’: Therapists say AI’s new multimillionaires feel guilty, isolated and cut off from everyone else The therapists who coined the term during the dot-com boom say the AI windfall has brought it roaring back—with more guilt, more isolation and a cottage industry ready to treat it.
Fortune · Oct 24 KFC’s president started washing dishes at 13 but dreamt of being the ‘female Richard Branson’—so she quit jobs that wouldn’t embrace her personality KFC’s president Catherine Tan-Gillespie started her career on just £1.20/hour—and promotion after promotion led her to the top of the fried chicken chain.
Fortune · Oct 24 The data scientist who called Trump's 2024 win now gives Democrats a 78% shot at the Senate Northwestern’s Thomas Miller finds Democrats leading in 18 of 35 races, and the Trump effect hurting the GOP across the board.