Current price of gold as of September 16, 2026
At 9:05 a.m. Eastern Time on September 16, 2026, gold was valued at $4,346 per ounce. That’s a $55 uptick from the same time yesterday and a $659 gain over…
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Hot or not? The economy’s fate rests on Kevin Warsh’s answer to one key question
“I am the house now,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told traders last week, as he defended the administration’s increasingly interventionist approach to the bond market. He added that he had…
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1 in 3 Gen Z and millennials are stuck in their parents’ home—now, Airbnb is swooping in with a $250 million fund for affordable rental homes
The American Dream of graduating college, landing a six-figure job, and moving into a white picket-fenced home is slipping out of reach. More Gen Zers and millennials are stuck living…
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Goldman says the economy is rewarding capital ownership over labor — and most Americans don’t own enough of it to benefit
Workers have been taking home a shrinking slice of the American economy for more than three decades, and the headline number is stark: the labor share of income in the…
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Luxury travel expert Olivia Ferney charges $100K a year for planning billionaire travel—they’re easier to work with than millionaires, she says
The world is fascinated by how the ultrarich live and work. By arranging their travel, a 25-year-old Canadian who grew up in a log cabin gained a few insights, and…
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The Fed unanimously agrees to hike interest rates for the first time since 2023, despite Trump’s call for the ‘lowest rates’ in the world
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday, increasing the benchmark federal funds rate to a range of 3.75% to 4%. It was the first…
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Japan has a problematic age gap: 100,000-plus residents are over 100 and the pension system is buckling
For the first time in its history, Japan has more than 100,000 people over the age of 100—and nearly 90% of them are women. The surge of centenarians is straining the country’s…
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Top CD rates on Sept. 17, 2026: Lock in up to up to 4.75%
The most lucrative certificate of deposit options are currently delivering yields up to 4.75% APY (annual percentage yield) as of Sept. 17, 2026. Alongside three Federal Reserve cuts to the…
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‘Crazy days’ and ‘silly season’ in the stock market raise the prospect of a ‘late-stage’ AI bubble finally popping
Wall Street analysts are describing the current moment as “crazy days” and “silly season” even as one of its most bearish forecasters warns of a “late-stage” AI bubble—and now the…
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Saudi Arabia built the East-West pipeline in the 1980s in case Iran closed Hormuz. Tehran-backed militias still blasted it, sending oil prices up
Saudi Arabia’s closure of a major oil pipeline after a recent attack is raising fears that global energy markets in crisis because of the war with Iran could face even starker shortages, pushing prices…
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