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[ad_1] CNN  —  President Donald Trump is using his love of tariffs to threaten high-profile American companies. Over the past month, Trump has said he’d like to target two specific and very different companies – Apple and Mattel – with tariffs aimed at their key products over comments by their CEOs. Company-specific tariff threats will likely face legal problems, especially after a decision late Wednesday by the US Court of International Trade questioned the president’s authority to unilaterally impose tariffs without action by Congress – a decision that was put on hold by a Court of Appeals decision on Thursday.…

[ad_1] New York CNN  —  The Class of 2025 faces a daunting assignment: getting hired in today’s no-hire, no-fire jobs market. Overall, the US job market remains resilient. The national unemployment rate stands at just 4.2% and the economy has added jobs 52 months in a row – the second longest streak of uninterrupted job growth in US history. Yet there are some cautionary signs beneath the hood. Business decision-making has been paralyzed by the chaotic trade war. Entry-level hiring is down. And some leaders of the artificial intelligence industry say that the fast-moving technology could wipe out white-collar jobs,…

[ad_1] Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.The writer is a professor at Columbia University and a Nobel laureate in economicsThe late Pope Francis was right to raise the alarm on the debt and development crisis facing developing countries. And he was right to link the issue of debt to broader questions of global justice, human dignity and intergenerational responsibility. Some have claimed that the debt problem in the developing world is dissipating, but in fact the situation in many low- and lower-middle-income countries (LLMICs) has become deeper…

[ad_1] New York CNN  —  For the last several years, Pride Month was a splashy marketing event for big brands. Stores adorned windows with rainbow flags, displayed LGBTQ-themed t-shirts and coffee mugs at their entrances, changed their logos on social media accounts, and spotlighted donations to LGBTQ rights groups. But this Pride Month, many retail chains and brands are going quiet. Companies are treading lightly, avoiding prominent campaigns and visible public support. Thirty-nine percent say they plan to scale back public Pride Month engagements this year, according to a survey of more than 200 corporate executives by Gravity Research, a…

[ad_1] Seven years ago, Mike Holp was riding through the streets of Austin as a food delivery worker, earning between $15 and $20 an hour.He lived just outside downtown in a shared rental with three roommates. Even with a computer science degree, the tough competition made it hard for him to get the tech job he’d hoped for.”Basically, the only thing that I could find to do to pay expenses was to deliver food on my bike,” Mike Holp, now 38, a digital creator, told Business Insider. Despite having a degree in computer science, he struggled to get a job at…

[ad_1] Yoeven Khemlani knew he wanted to build a product for engineers like him.The Singaporean’s friends told him they were spending tons of time maintaining code, web scraping, and translating their work for different markets. In July 2024, he launched JigsawStack, a company to create small models that could automate those tasks. One country — not his own — quickly became the source of his customers.”We saw a huge uptake of users and realized a lot of the early-stage customers that we got were from the US,” Khemlani said.JigsawStack, which raised $1.5 million in pre-seed rounds from the venture capital…

[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brad Barrett, who hosts the ChooseFI podcast. Business Insider has verified his professional history.My journey to financial independence, or FI, started when I got my first job. I began my career at one of the big accounting firms. I was fortunate enough to live at home with my parents, and I tried to save around 90% of my income when a lot of my friends began getting apartments alone or buying fancy cars. I’ve always been a bit frugal and never cared much about impressing other people. I saw saving…

[ad_1] Hong Kong CNN  —  China has accused the United States of “provoking new economic and trade frictions” as it responded to US President Donald Trump’s claims that Beijing had violated a trade truce agreed by the two nations last month, which paused their blistering tariff war. China was “strictly implementing” the consensus of those trade talks, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said in a statement Monday, while blaming the US for taking steps that “seriously undermine” the agreement. “The United States has been unilaterally provoking new economic and trade frictions, exacerbating the uncertainty and instability of bilateral economic and trade…

[ad_1] X, and earlier Twitter, has long been the platform of choice for users who revel in the public eye — a space to share unfiltered thoughts, “takes” of all kinds, and viral drama.But since Elon Musk bought the platform in 2022, he has aimed to attract a more private set of users as he works to make X integral to everyday life.His latest effort is a new feature called XChat. The “all new XChat is rolling out with encryption, vanishing messages, and the ability to send any kind of file. Also, audio/video calling,” Musk said in a post on…

[ad_1] It is a truth universally acknowledged: Lines are the worst part of amusement parks.Sure, too many $8 pretzels can gut your budget, but there’s something uniquely taxing about waiting in line for a popular ride on a sticky summer day.There might be a fix, however: artificial intelligence. New technology of all kinds is transforming the theme park experience in the United States, helping drive growth in the industry.Among the theme parks leveraging new technology is Legoland.”We’re using a technology called Vision AI,” Adrian Thompson, operations transformation director for Legoland’s parent company, Merlin Entertainments, told Business Insider. “We have cameras…