I had two days in Cleveland and one thing I’d wanted to do for years: Visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The best flight option was with the budget carrier Frontier Airlines, and it was departing Denver at 6:45 a.m. To make it on time, I’d have to wake at 3:30 a.m. and
Three years ago, nearly every major US company explicitly considered diversity when choosing new directors. Now, most don’t. In all, 61 S&P 100 companies have dumped explicit diversity criteria for future board members since 2023, according to an ESGAUGE analysis of filings and governance documents for Bloomberg News. The findings show the extent of the retreat from diversity, equity
The AI boom is soaking up investor cash, staving off a recession, and showing signs of faltering, David Rosenberg says. AI is “sapping the momentum out of the rest of business capital spending,” the veteran economist said during the latest episode of the “Excess Returns” podcast. Rosenberg estimated that 50% of all corporate investment is
I meet with health system executives routinely, and I hear very common themes: rising demand for care, a strained workforce and significant cost pressures. Clinicians are stretched. Patients are waiting. Hospitals are working to create more capacity without adding more complexity to a system already struggling to keep up with demand. This “triple threat” is
British Airways passengers spent seven hours on an airplane only to end up back where they started. Flight 54 departed Johannesburg last Saturday, bound for London, a journey that typically lasts around 10-and-a-half hours. It took off more than five hours behind schedule, at 2:45 a.m. local time. While it isn’t clear how many people
The government’s near-$40 trillion national debt is now costing the Treasury more than $3 billion a day in service payments, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). In its August budget update, the CBO reported that net interest on public debt totaled $963 billion between October 2025 (when the fiscal year
