BUSINESS NEWS
- Wall Street’s hidden recruiting pipeline isn’t an Ivy League diploma—it’s the teammate who triples your odds of getting hired
by Mia Osmonbekov on August 1, 2026 at 8:00 amA new study of more than 120,000 Ivy League graduates finds locker room ties, not diplomas, do the real gatekeeping into finance's top firms
- ‘People can go from zero to 100’: How Gen Z is raking in $260,000 per month on a livestream auction app
by Joshua Hong on August 1, 2026 at 7:00 amCofounders Abhinavan Thanendran and Neil Shah started as “work buddies.” Now they are leading a $50 million-plus startup.
- Trump orders Iran attack as soon as this weekend, WSJ says
by Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Bloomberg on July 31, 2026 at 10:45 pm“We’ll be hitting them very hard,” the president said during a Cabinet meeting Friday. “And at some point they’ll say we just can’t take it anymore.”
- LinkedIn adds a ‘seems like AI slop’ button after blocking billions of automated comment attempts in the last few months
by Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez on July 31, 2026 at 10:32 pm“AI slop is a top priority for all of us,” said LinkedIn chief product officer Hari Srinivasan in a post.
- Warsh considering reducing number of Fed meetings, NYT reports
by Enda Curran, Bloomberg on July 31, 2026 at 10:21 pmCurrently, Fed policymakers meet eight times a year for a two-day gathering.
- The power couple of AI is getting married in Carmel, days after groom Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund nearly blew up
by Eva Roytburg on July 31, 2026 at 9:01 pmLeopold Aschenbrenner sold the bulk of his firm, Situational Awareness, to Citadel at a discount, then offered investors one-on-one calls during his honeymoon.
- Chevron posts largest quarterly profit ever, and Exxon income surges as Iran war squeezes oil supply
by Jordan Blum on July 31, 2026 at 7:03 pmThe Big Oil giants are taking home near-record profits from high oil and fuel prices worldwide.
- Amazon may owe you money: It just got $600 million in tariff refunds after a lawsuit accused it of favoring Trump
by Catherina Gioino on July 31, 2026 at 5:48 pmAndy Jassy conceded in January tariffs were hitting prices, months before Amazon’s $600 million refund came to light.
- The rise of ‘conspicuous waiting’: The 19th-century economic theory that explains why Gen Z posts their place in line
by Tatiana Sataua on July 31, 2026 at 7:00 amGen Z isn't just waiting in line. Thorstein Veblen would have recognized exactly what they're doing.
- Coinbase and Robinhood are in a heated battle rivalry—and this week’s Q2 earnings will show who has the edge
by Jeff John Roberts on July 28, 2026 at 8:07 pmRobinhood has proved better at diversifying its revenue streams—but emerging fields of AI commerce and tokenized stocks will boost Coinbase in time.