BUSINESS NEWS
- Major U.S. allies in western Europe warn of ‘dangerous downward spiral’ as Trump threatens tariffs over his lust for Greenland
by Stefanie Dazio, John Leicester, Lorne Cook, The Associated Press on January 18, 2026 at 3:28 pmIn an unusual, strong joint statement from major U.S. allies, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland spoke as one.
- The EU could fire a never-before-used ‘trade bazooka’ to retaliate against Trump tariffs aimed at NATO allies sending troops to Greenland
by Jason Ma on January 18, 2026 at 3:20 pmIn addition to limiting trade in goods and services, the anti-coercion instrument could also target foreign direct investment and financial markets.
- Building corporate resilience in a fragmenting world
by Sunny Mann, Anahita Thoms on January 18, 2026 at 2:05 pmWhat Davos signals for global trade, geopolitics, and business strategy.
- This Harvard professor spent 8 years traveling the world researching the secret history of capitalism and how ‘marginal’ and ‘weak’ it used to be
by Nick Lichtenberg on January 18, 2026 at 1:30 pmSven Beckert has spent nearly a decade trying to understand the 1,000-year-old thing that capitalism is. "This is a human-created order."
- What hiring someone who served 20 years in prison taught us about loyalty at work
by Brian Koehn, Adam Claussen on January 18, 2026 at 1:05 pmA former prison warden and an exec who once served a life equivalent sentence explain why fair chance hiring is an overlooked retention strategy.
- Ford CEO warns there’s a dearth of blue-collar workers able to construct AI data centers and operate factories: ‘Nothing to backfill the ambition’
by Sasha Rogelberg on January 18, 2026 at 12:56 pmJim Farley has identified a crisis in the “essential economy” of overlooked blue-collar workers in the AI race.
- If you want to be financially independent at a young age, don’t buy a house, serial investor says. Home ownership is just an ‘expensive indulgence’
by Sydney Lake on January 18, 2026 at 12:03 pm“Your mortgage is just the starting point,” said author JL Collins.
- This CEO has a ‘1950s family structure in reverse’—her husband does the child care, cooking and cleaning: ‘I do the making money and paying taxes’
by Preston Fore on January 18, 2026 at 10:40 amLife360’s CEO rejects corporate leaders’ obsession with 4 a.m. wakeup calls—and says her unconventional home life is what has made her leadership style possible.
- I oversee a lab where engineers try to destroy my life’s work. It’s the only way to prepare for quantum threats
by Bernard Vian on January 18, 2026 at 10:00 amI'm a 30-year semiconductor veteran who helped put secure chips into credit cards and bring contactless payments into everyday use.
- Trump wants nations to pay $1 billion to stay on his peace board
by Bloomberg on January 17, 2026 at 10:29 pmCritics are worried that Trump is trying to build an alternative, or rival, to the United Nations, which he has long criticized.
