For elite students, college has never looked like a worse deal. Tuition is nearly half a million dollars, AI is threatening to destroy the entry-level jobs a degree used to guarantee, and now in the hottest industry—tech—it’s cool to skip school entirely. So on Tuesday, Andreessen Horowitz became the first venture capital firm to sell
Oil prices retreated for the fifth straight day Tuesday and Wall Street was poised to open modestly higher as pressure from the bond market eased. With little in the way of corporate earnings or government economic data releases, markets were somewhat subdued in the early going. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P
Stan Choe Updated September 21, 2026 — 10:01am,first published September 21, 2026 — 5:21am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA The Australian sharemarket has opened in the red after Wall Street capped an up-and-down week with a mixed finish for US
A six-figure annual salary used to be a milestone for career success and financial security, but it isn’t what it used to be. The era of elevated inflation that began during the COVID pandemic has eroded the value of $100,000 to the point that Americans earning that much are hunting for bargains like everyone else.
EDINBURG, Texas — Quinten Martinez, pumping gas under a hot South Texas sun, remembers a time when fueling up didn’t require difficult decisions. “Is it going to be groceries this week?” asked the 28-year-old Amazon delivery driver as he watched the numbers tick higher. “Is it gonna be getting gas in our tank to go
WASHINGTON — It could be much worse. When President Donald Trump launched his war against Iran in late February, energy analysts issued dire warnings that oil prices could more than double during a protracted conflict and urged investors and motorists to buckle up for a bumpy ride. The war grinds on and oil prices certainly
