Americans have never been this pessimistic about their finances: A record 41% of US consumers expect their financial situation to be worse over the next 12 months. This figure has more than tripled since Q2 2024. By comparison, during the 2008 Financial Crisis, this metric… pic.twitter.com/tDGQRNFtLb — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) October 30, 2026 Americans have never been more pessimistic about their personal financial future. According to figures highlighted by The Kobeissi Letter, a record 41% of US consumers now expect their financial situation to deteriorate over the next 12 months. That figure has more than tripled since the second…
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PowerPoint may soon be facing match point. People have been predicting the death of presentation software for decades, but AI strategist Peter Gostev reignited the debate last week with a LinkedIn post declaring “Google Slides & PowerPoint are dead,” according to LinkedIn News. Why? The argument is that AI can now build interactive, web-based presentations from a simple prompt. Anthropic’s Claude Design turns a rough outline into an on-brand deck that exports as standalone HTML, as well as PowerPoint. Microsoft is fighting back by building AI editing directly into PowerPoint, and says new-user retention for the feature jumped 36%. But…
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Key Takeaways Luana Lopes Lara is a former ballerina, an MIT graduate and the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire. She made her fortune by co-founding Kalshi, a prediction market exchange that allows users to bet on everything ranging from weather to sports. She said many smart founders fall into a common trap when it comes to starting their own business. As a teenager, Luana Lopes Lara studied ballet at the Bolshoi Theater School in Brazil. Competition was cutthroat; students sometimes tried to sabotage each other by hiding glass fragments in each other’s shoes. She attended technical school in the morning,…
Key Takeaways In 2022, Morris took interior design classes and started her business on the side. A 2024 layoff motivated Morris to go all-in and lean into designing for historic properties. She saw about $48,000 in take-home pay year one and expects about $100,000 in 2026. This as-told-to story is based on a conversation with Abigail Morris, founder of Chicago-based full-service interior design studio Abigail Morris Interiors. In 2022, Morris started her interior design business on the side, building it as she continued her full-time career in corporate tech. After being laid off at the end of 2024, Morris went…
QUESTION: Marty, you show a Panic Cycle in the Senate for 2027. Does this mean the Democrats will take the Senate? Is this what you mean that the Democrats are always their own worst enemy? Connie ANSWER: I have warned that the Senate Race does not look good for the Republicans. The Democrats settled right on our Yearly Bullish Reversal the last time. So it was not a guaranteed bullish signal, but we have Panic Cycles on both sides of the spectrum in 2027 and 2029. this is why I have been warning that we are going to see nothing…
Key Takeaways Allison and Stephen Ellsworth are launching Jetty, a new “everyday hydration” brand. Hydration is a declining category, but they see a major unmet need in the space. When debuting a product, it’s important to build an emotional connection with consumers. Your packaging can do a lot of that work. After selling a company for $1.95 billion, what do you do next? Here’s Allison Ellsworth’s answer: One year after selling Poppi to PepsiCo, she’s now back with a new brand — called Jetty. It calls itself a “literally everyday hydration” brand, which sells hydration powders and liquid beverages. She…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Every brand wants attention. Most companies pay for it. They buy ads, sponsor content, hire influencers and compete for space in crowded feeds, inboxes and search results. But what if, instead of paying to enter someone else’s conversation, your company created a reason for the conversation to happen? Some brands are doing exactly that by creating National Days, awareness months and annual observances around the categories and problems their businesses were built to address. Done well, an observance becomes a recurring platform for earned media, education, thought leadership, search visibility, partnerships and…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 208.25 points or -0.33% to 63,081.86 • Shanghai increased 39.014 points or 1.08% to 3,638.031 • Hang Seng increased 98.90 points or 0.42% to 23,393.32 • ASX 200 decreased 51.60 points or -0.58% to 8,856.50 • SENSEX increased 1,233.25 points or 1.66% to 75,692.78 • Nifty50 increased 387.70 points or 1.68% to 23,440.80 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD decreased 0.0016 or -0.23% to 0.70164 • NZDUSD decreased 0.0002 or -0.04% to 0.56280 • USDJPY increased 0.284 or 0.18%…
Last week, hackers broke into Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, and strolled off with $6.3 billion in digital coins. The attack appears to be the biggest crypto heist on record, according to The New York Times. But now that withdrawals have reopened, plenty of users are ready to say bye-bye to Binance. Since Sunday, users pulled about $4.65 billion and deposited $1.01 billion, for a net outflow of $3.64 billion, most of it in the first few hours. Binance says that’s just 2.1% of the $171 billion it manages and that activity has since stabilized. Binance has promised to…