The last pennies for general circulation were minted last year, but a newly passed bipartisan bill to formally sunset the 1-cent coin includes a single clause that keeps the penny alive, even if it’s just as a collectible. On September 28, the Senate voted to pass the Common Cents Act by unanimous consent, and the bill now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk. The legislation formally asks the Treasury secretary to cease minting pennies and sets rules for price rounding: In any transaction where exact change cannot be provided, people and financial institutions should round down to the nearest nickel…
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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump brought many of the most powerful people in AI to the White House, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. At a high level, most want some version of the same thing: more data center capacity, faster permitting, more federal spending on AI, and a light (or nonexistent) regulatory touch. Their priorities overlap, sometimes considerably, but the companies’ different businesses give them different stakes in the details. Some, for example, are pushing the federal government to impose new rules on the most powerful AI…
QUESTION: Marty, you had a Panic Cycle for the Democrats in the Senate for the midterms. You said that there was a window for them to take the House and Senate thanks to this Iran War. Do you hav e aby update on that projection? WL ANSWER: The Democrats close exactly on the Yearly Bullish Reversal atin the last election. We see resistance up to 58, We have a Double Directional Change in 2027 and a Panic Cycle with a Panic Cycle following the 2028 election. I have warned that Trump MUST throw Netanyahu under the bus. He refusal…
I have the unusual experience of spending my working life building and scaling artificial intelligence while going home to two teenagers trying to imagine their place in the future it’s creating. They’re just starting to figure out what they want their lives to look like, and their questions are shaped by a world changing by the day. Those questions are also way more practical than you’d imagine. Is university worth it? Will a particular career still exist? Do I need to learn to code? Being an AI founder makes me optimistic and realistic. I see both what AI can do…
For decades, economists looked down on emerging markets whenever they ran chronic deficits, accumulated too much debt, and watched interest expense consume an increasing portion of government revenue. The developed world supposedly knew better. Now the Institute of International Finance is warning that the United States, France, Britain, and Japan face “persistently large deficits and rising interest expenses — challenges long associated with debt-distressed emerging market sovereigns.” Welcome to the sovereign debt crisis. Global debt has now surpassed $365 TRILLION after increasing by more than $10 trillion during the first half of 2026. The problem is no longer merely the…
Key Takeaways Kashef started Prompt Advisers a few days after ChatGPT launched in 2022. Today, the business is 70% consulting and education, 30% custom development. Prompt Advisers is on track for $1.5 million to $2 million in revenue this year. This as-told-to story is based on a conversation with Mark Kashef, founder of AI automation agency Prompt Advisers. The demand for Claude Code specialists has surged 938% on Fiverr over the past six months, as businesses seek freelancers who can use the AI coding tool to automate their workflows, build AI agents and ship products faster, according to the 2026 edition of Fiverr’s…
Imagine running a private company where most of your office buildings failed to meet even a 60% utilization target, yet you continued paying the rent, utilities, maintenance, security, repairs, and operating costs year after year. How long would that company survive? Welcome to the federal government. The Government Accountability Office examined the Department of Transportation’s real estate portfolio and found that 89% of its 189 federally owned and leased office buildings failed to meet the government’s own 60% utilization benchmark. That means only about ONE IN TEN met the standard. Taxpayers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Customers expect businesses to slowly raise their prices in line with inflation. What they don’t want to see is a sudden price hike they don’t understand, or one that puts your solution completely out of reach. Ensure your product remains accessible to customers, and invest deeply in your relationship with each new customer to maximize the mutual value it produces. Building trust with your customers through quality service and promises kept pays off more in the long run than simply trying to extract maximum revenue from them. As I’ve written…
Everyone looks at the headline manufacturing number and moves on, but buried inside the September ISM report is something far more important. The Prices Index surged 6.8 points to 77.9 while the Backlog of Orders Index jumped 4.6 points to 56.4. When backlogs move above 50, unfilled orders expand, meaning manufacturers are receiving work faster than they can efficiently complete it. When that happens at the same time prices are surging, the supply chain is telling us there is still pressure in the pipeline. ISM reported that 43.5% of respondents were paying higher prices while only 2.7% reported lower prices,…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Funding isn’t proof. Many well-funded startups can’t back up a single claim an editor could verify, while some student founders arrive with patents, city pilots and peer-reviewed research. AI lowered the cost of building, not the cost of trust. Anyone can create a product now, so verifiable evidence is what sets a founder apart. The most convincing founder stories I read these days don’t come from funded startups. A few of them come from founders who still have homework. I run a PR agency, so pitches are my day job.…