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Pennsylvania vs. Perrier: Your beloved mineral water is actually a soda, court rules

The battle started over a $0.24 sales tax tacked onto a Sheetz purchase.

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Millennials have it better than everyone thinks, accumulating wealth faster than anyone else since the pandemic, new data shows

"This historic growth is without parallel in recent decades," according to an analysis from the Center for American Progress.

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The economy is moving us back into the 19th century as fertility rates plunge

The U.S. birth rate from 2023 was down 2% from 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Now might be the time to move to Florida as inventory levels surge and sellers slash prices

It may only be worth it, though, if you’re willing to pay higher insurance rates.

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Luxury home prices have gotten so unwieldy that Ye, formerly Kanye West, had to slash the price of his Malibu mansion by around $14 million

Some of Ye’s Malibu neighbors reportedly said the property was "left to rot."

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Former HGTV star slapped with $10 million fine and jail time for real estate fraud

An investor found a property “to be a burnt down shell with no work done on it.”

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Meet the CEO who makes your dog-food delivery feel like visiting a Disney resort

Chewy CEO Sumit Singh gives customers “the best personalized service you should expect at the best local neighborhood pet store.”

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High mortgage rates are finally hitting new home construction as builders are pulling back on projects

“It makes little economic sense to ramp up construction on homes that won't be sold in the near future,” one engineer said.

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Junior analysts, beware: Your coveted and cushy entry-level Wall Street jobs may soon be eliminated by AI

A major transition is coming for the highly coveted junior analyst position at big Wall Street banks, experts agree.

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Bill Gates unloaded one of his properties in less than two weeks on the market—and it only cost $5 million

Gates still owns another mega mansion in a Seattle suburb worth about $130 million.

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Nearly 30% of recent home buyers have zero clue how much their realtor is paid—and a lot of people don’t know where that money came from

“Many Americans make the biggest purchase of their life” without knowing how much their realtor gets paid, Redfin chief economist says.

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The Trump donor who Biden can't fire is running the US Postal Service directly into the ground—just what everyone warned about when he was confirmed in the depth of the pandemic

Under the leadership of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, the USPS has made two price hikes to shipping and mailing services in just six months.

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Billionaire Rupert Murdoch is taking an L on a Manhattan penthouse, slashing the asking price nearly 40% to $38.5 million

The 7,000-square-foot Flatiron District penthouse was first listed in 2022 at $62 million.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang launched his company in a booth at Denny's with his friends. Meet his co-founder who donated his shares worth $70 billion and moved off the grid

“I did a little crazy thing,” Nvidia co-founder Curtis Priem said. “And I wish I'd kept a little bit more.”

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 Bill Gates 'didn't believe in vacations' and worked on the weekends while building Microsoft—but regretted it. Here are his 3 tips for success

Gates eventually realized that ‘intensity was not always appropriate.”

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Jeff Bezos continues home-buying spree with a $90 million mansion in the 'Billionaire Bunker' area of Miami

Bezos now owns three properties on the exclusive island, which is also home to Tom Brady, Ivanka Trump, and Jared Kushner.

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America’s housing Catch-22: There are more ‘million dollar’ cities than ever before, but only the rich can afford them

California is home to 210 cities with $1 million median-priced homes.

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Housing has gotten so expensive that buyers need $56,000 for the down payment on an average home. That’s up nearly 25% from last year, Redfin says

But more buyers are making all-cash offers to stay competitive.

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Walt Disney World dedicated nearly 80 acres to a massive affordable housing project near its Orlando park. But Orange County NIMBYs aren’t having it

“They’re trying to pack an enormous amount of density into what is essentially the size of a Costco parking lot,” resident said.

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A $2.3 million home listing in Nantucket just slashed its price by a whopping 74% after its shoreline eroded drastically in just a few weeks

Small vacation towns are reeling at the effects of climate change.

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Diddy’s estimated $1 billion fortune is at risk after 5 lawsuits with explosive allegations. Here’s how the entertainment mogul made his money

Diddy’s fortune doesn’t come from his music alone.

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How a park bench meeting led to Aflac’s $200 million mascot idea

"Quack, quack, Aflac became the idea," CEO Dan Amos told Fortune. The adoption of the avian mascot has coincided with a 621% run-up in share price.

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Millennial and Gen Z credit scores are the latest sign of the 'vibecession.' Their credit scores will keep going up, Open Credit, TransUnion report shows

This could be a good sign for borrowers since lenders have historically been “hesitant” to extend loans to thin-file or low-credit consumers.

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NYC vacancy rates are so low and affordable housing is so sparse that a super PAC formed to elect politicians to build more homes

New York City vacancy rates hit a historic low in February.

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Real-estate agents are going extinct just like travel agents did, award-winning professor says. ‘You just don’t need’ them anymore because of the internet

Home buyers and sellers are no longer “dependent” on real estate agents, Andrew Spieler of Hofstra University tells Fortune.

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Olive Garden’s earnings just pulled back the curtain on the economy: The rich are dining out while the poor are falling back

“We're clearly seeing consumer behavior shifts," Darden CEO Rick Cardenas said on an earnings call. “At every brand, transactions fell from...

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'The American Dream is still very much alive,' Fannie Mae CEO insists—and she has essential advice for first-time homebuyers

“Did my parents dream of having a home? Was that home what changed the trajectory of our life? Absolutely,” said Fannie Mae CEO Priscilla...

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‘Never complain, never explain’: The British royal family’s longtime mantra is backfiring with the Kate Middleton debacle

“They are letting the crisis they created grow in silence,” one PR exec told Fortune

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Housing is so unaffordable in major cities that millennials are moving back to the suburbs, Harvard research finds

Millennials are leading a “back to the city” reversal.

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‘Folks don’t live near the office anymore’: Remote work guru Nick Bloom gets real on why RTO is so hard

The Stanford economist's research show that firms are hiring out of bigger areas, and you know what that means for vacancies.

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Distrust over the Kate Middleton saga threatens the royal family's 28 billion business empire

The royal family controls “enormous assets of incalculable value,” and they rely on public trust.

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The uninsurable housing market: 26% of homeowners worry climate change will put them underwater either literally or figuratively

Homeowners insurance premiums are up 300% in California since before the pandemic, insurance exec says.

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Joe Biden is admitting that nobody wants to sell their house—and he’s offering a measly incentive to fix it

The Pandemic Housing Boom increased the price of starter homes a whopping 45%. The White House thinks a $10,000 tax credit will get the market moving.

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Kate Middleton's photo debacle is just the beginning of what AI will do to public trust

Growing AI sophistication “calls to question how we know what to believe anymore,” PR manager says.

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How Nvidia’s billionaire CEO went from Denny’s dishwasher to leading a company with a $2 trillion market cap

“I’m still working on being a good CEO,” Jensen Huang said in an interview at his alma mater, Stanford University.

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Kate Middleton’s Photoshopped family photo and the glaring errors that led to kill notices: 'Think of it as a Cat. 5 cyclone'

The Kate Middleton photo debacle has also surfaced concerns about AI photo manipulation.

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This 79-year-old CEO is so passionate about the hydrogen-energy revolution that he hasn't taken a vacation in 20 years

How Seifi Ghasemi’s belief in the future of energy helped him build a $20 billion company into a $54 billion success—and where he’s aiming his...

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has been mysteriously buying huge swaths of land in Hawaii—now we know why

The 59-year-old Salesforce CEO donated $150 million to three Hawaiian hospitals, one of the largest donations in state history.

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Top economist Gary Shilling predicts a ‘considerable revival’ in housing activity—but it’s going to take 3 or 4 years to unfreeze the housing market

“Lock-in effect” pushes a housing market recovery to years away

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Miami-Dade is the latest county to go into debt to try to do what its private sector won't: Build houses

Miami-Dade county is short more than 90,000 affordable homes

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Buying a house has gotten so expensive that homebuyers need to make about $50,000 more than they did pre-pandemic to afford one

Housing affordability ‘feels the most intense’ it has in 20 years, real estate brokerage owner says

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9 million homes will come on the market in the next decade as baby boomers age—but the ‘silver tsunami’ will be more of a ‘tide,’ Freddie Mac says

Baby boomers aren’t ready to give up their low or non-existent mortgage rates, but as they age their homeownership rates will decline, bringing more...

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Goldman says office buildings need a 50% price drop for residential conversion to be a real thing

Office-to-residential conversions can be costly and take longer than new construction

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Florida homeowners have no choice but to lower condo prices as insurance and HOA fees 'skyrocket,' Redfin says

Condo prices in Florida are dropping while the U.S. average continues to rise.

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Sara Blakely's $1 billion idea started with just $5,000 in savings and wanting to solve her own problem

“Right when I was running out of friends and money, Oprah called,” the Spanx founder told Fortune in 2014. “She chose it as her favorite product...

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Million-dollar homes are swallowing D.C.’s housing market as a whopping 20% of listings are out of reach for most people

Most D.C. residents can only afford a $300,000 home

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Steve Jobs adopted a no ‘bozos' policy and said the best managers are those who never wanted the job—here are his 3 best management tips

Hiring only for ‘professional management’ doesn’t work, Steve Jobs said

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Michael Dell founded his $62 billion company—once the world’s largest PC maker—as a 19-year-old in his college dorm. Here's his secret to actually making it big

From selling newspapers to selling computers, Michael Dell has always been about taking risks.

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Say goodbye to the peak of home price appreciation, Fortune 500 chief economist says—it's behind us

Home prices rose for 10 months straight, but Mark Fleming, chief economist at First American, sees a change.

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The bigger the age gap between managers and employees, the less productive they are, report shows

Managers 12 years older than employees are nearly 1.5 times more likely to report lower productivity levels, according to the London School of...

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