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Father’s Day spending reached record highs in 2025, surpassing the prior peak of $22.9 billion in 2023. Americans spent $24 billion on Father’s Day last year, according to research from Gourmet Gift Baskets based on National Retail Federation (NRF) data. Since 2019, Father’s Day spending has increased by 50%. Meanwhile, inflation has risen by 24.4%. […]

Every wave of new technology arrives with a rich man telling everyone else to relax. The machine will lift you up, not push you out, he says. He is usually right about what the machine can do, and wrong about how it feels to be the person standing closest to it. The argument over artificial

When coming back from a trip, travelers typically bring back everything from the common fridge magnets to some artisanal crafts and a bottle of local wine. Some coming back from international travel will either knowingly or unknowingly try to test border import rules by bringing back local foods or crafts made from animal products. To

I spent some time digging through Morgan Stanley’s recap of its first-ever National Security Innovation Summit in a note shared with me at TheStreet. What struck me wasn’t any single data point but the sense that an entire industry is quietly being rebuilt from the ground up. And most retail investors have no idea it’s

Picture someone at a company who has fully bought into Microsoft Copilot. They use it constantly, hundreds of tasks a week, drafting documents, summarizing meetings, chasing down information across the company’s files. By any measure, exactly the kind of power user Microsoft would want. Turns out that person is also expensive to serve. “We have

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)’s AI story might be getting a lot bigger in a place investors haven’t been watching closely enough. According to TheFly, Bernstein’s latest note on the AI chip giant goes beyond GPUs, where it has been trying to close the gap with Nvidia. It’s about CPUs becoming a lot more important as

CrowdStrike (CRWD) and Amazon Web Services are racing to close a security gap that most enterprises do not yet know they have. Companies are deploying AI agents into production faster than their security teams can monitor what those agents actually do once live. That mismatch, not the partnership announcement itself, is the real story. The

Juneteenth National Independence Day is the newest federal holiday, commemorating the abolition of slavery in the U.S. In 2021, it became the 11th permanent federal holiday added to the calendar. U.S. federal government offices are closed on June 19, and most federal employees have the day off. This holiday is also observed by most state

Moderna (MRNA) has been struggling to shake one label for years: Covid winner. That label helped to make the company famous, but it also became a problem for the stock when pandemic demand dropped and investors questioned whether Moderna could develop a stable business beyond one historic product cycle. Now the corporation may have a

A long-established grocery chain is preparing to close stores in a major market, leaving residents with fewer nearby options as rising operating costs and changing consumer habits continue reshaping the retail landscape. The decision reflects broader challenges facing grocery operators nationwide, including rising labor expenses, ongoing supply pressures, and growing competition from discount retailers and