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House Approves $280 Billion Bill To Boost Microchip Production And Counter China
Topline The House passed the “CHIPS plus” bill in a bipartisan vote Thursday, sending to President Joe Biden’s desk a $280 billion package designed to boost domestic microchip production and make the ...
Tribute To A Forbes Legend: Q.ai Founder Stephen Mathai-Davis
This story appears in the August/September 2022 issue of Forbes Magazine. Subscribe For over a century, Forbes has championed entrepreneurs, and that’s true internally, too. Those who have shaped and ...
Ronan Farrow Interviews Journalists Facing Threats Around The World
Mexico City-based photojournalist Sáshenka Gutiérrez. HBO CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez, at times, still looks a little stunned when recounting what happened to him in May of 2020 while covering a pr...
Steve Forbes Roasts Federal Reserve
In the name of fighting inflation, the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates again. As this episode of What’s Ahead points out, our central bank is suffering from amnesia. It’s applying the same a...
Space Industry Grew To Record $469 Billion Last Year, Report Finds
Topline The space industry grew at its fastest pace in years to reach a record $469 billion in annual global spending in 2021, according to a report from the Space Foundation published Wednesday, as g...
Fashion’s Latest Sustainability Report Claims To Have The Answers—But Do They Add Up?
Photo by Chris Hondros Getty Images There is a saying that when something seems too good to be true, it probably is. “Existing [textile] recycling technologies could drive 80% circularity in the fashi...
Here Are The Major U.S. Job Cuts As Recession Fears Grow
Major U.S. companies have laid off thousands of employees so far this summer, as CEOs fear soaring inflation could tip the economy into a recession. July 26, 2022E-commerce company Shopify became the ...
Forbes: 80% of the population will use Bitcoin
Yesterday, an article by Frank Holmes was published in the contributors’ Great Speculations section of the Forbes website, speculating that Bitcoin adoption could reach 10% by the end of the decade. ...
Introducing New Formats For Forbes’ Digital Ad Suite
Over the past four years, we’ve been working hard to introduce new formats, simplify our menu, and push continuous innovation on our industry-leading digital ad product suite. As we look ahead, we see...
GOP Senators Signing On To “A Bad And Counterproductive Idea” Warns Steve Forbes
This segment of What’s Ahead hammers home the truth that getting Washington politicians involved in any business, especially advanced technology, is always a bad idea. Yet congressional Republicans, e...
The NFL Relaunches Its Own Streaming Product, Plotting Its Media Future Around Connected Devices
The NFL rebranded its streaming service product to NFL+, dropping its monthly price to $4.99. Photo provided by the NFL The National Football League hired Gil Moran in 2018 to reimagine NFL Game Pass,...
How This Mexico-Based Used-Car Seller Became The Most Valuable Startup In Latin America
Used-car sales unicorn Kavak is expanding to Chile, Colombia, Peru and Turkey, espousing transparency and efficiency in the fragmented used-car market. Founder and CEO Carlos García Ottati explains ho...
Ohio Man Indicted For Raping 9-Year-Old Who Was Forced To Travel To Indiana For Abortion
Topline An Ohio grand jury indicted Gerson Fuentes on two counts of rape on Friday, for allegedly assaulting and impregnating a 9-year-old girl, who was forced by the state’s ban on abortion to travel...
Steve Forbes Shares Insights On Putin’s Attack
This episode of What’s Ahead sounds the alarm over what’s unfolding in the Ukraine war. Despite embarrassing setbacks and enormous casualties, Putin believes he can still win. Russian forces have been...
Steve Forbes Warns Of Threat To Nations By International Monetary Fund
The deadly combination of inflation and food shortages is putting numerous nations on the brink of disaster. Making the situation worse is that countless countries have also taken on enormous amounts ...
Here’s Where It Will Be Dangerously Hot In The U.S. This Week
Topline More than 100 million Americans are under heat warnings and advisories in 28 states, from California to New Hampshire. New York is one of dozens of U.S. cities sweltering in the latest summer ...
CDC Advisors Recommend Novavax Covid Vaccine For Adults
Topline A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee recommended approving Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine for adults on Tuesday, one week after the protein-based vaccine received emerge...
Steve Forbes Celebrates Scuttling Of Global Tax Scheme
This episode of What’s Ahead cheerfully examines how taxpayers got a break last week when two bad international tax initiatives that have been pushed hard by the Biden Treasury Department got temporar...
This Jacket Worn By Buzz Aldrin To The Moon And Back Could Sell For $2 Million At Auction
Topline Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon and the only surviving crew member of the historic Apollo 11 mission, will auction off artifacts and mementos tied to the 1969 moon landing and ...
Steve Forbes Offers Advice For Ailing MLB
There’s no way baseball can occupy the overwhelming position it once held when it was truly America’s favorite pastime. Affluence and innovation have given people a number of exciting alternatives, in...
Here Are The Major U.S. Ones So Far
Topline Major U.S. companies laid off thousands of employees so far this summer, as CEOs fear soaring inflation could bring the economy into a recession. Forbes is tracking the biggest layoffs as comp...
Steve Forbes Warns “Big Financial Crisis” Is Coming
This episode of What’s Ahead warns of a brewing storm that will be global in nature and could wreak immense damage, economically and politically. Numerous nations have amassed immense debt. The binge-...
Netflix Reportedly In Talks With Hollywood Studios To Display Ads
Topline Netflix is in talks with at least three major Hollywood studios for a lower-cost, ad-supported subscription plan, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, as the company faces financial strug...
Steve Forbes Eviscerates Boris Johnson’s Failed Leadership
Outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Great Britain campaigned like a Conservative but ruled like a Joe Biden. Taxes and regulations ballooned. Britain’s tax burden rose to a 70-year high. Energy c...
Feds Launch Probe Into PGA Over Response To Rival LIV Golf
Topline The Department of Justice is investigating the PGA Tour for committing antitrust violations during its ongoing battle against the upstart LIV Golf, a PGA Tour spokesperson confirmed to Forbes ...
Steve Forbes Celebrates Supreme Court EPA Ruling
This episode of What’s Ahead analyzes how the recent Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency struck a magnificent blow against unbridled, unaccountable bureaucratic ...
In New Book, Entrepreneurs Articulate An Inspiring Vision Of Failing As Evolution
“A Love Affair with Failure” by Dr. Akintoye Akindele and Olakunle Soriyan is released with Forbes Books This release is posted on behalf of Forbes Books (operated by Advantage Media Group under licen...
Modern Agriculture’s House Of Cards, Inside California’s Controversial Prop 13, And Why Private Label Is Having A Moment
As David Barber, a partner at agriculture and food investors Astanor Ventures, told me while reporting my latest feature, modern agriculture has been built on three key assumptions: cheap energy, free...
Steve Forbes Praises Arizona Education Reforms
This episode of What’s Ahead explores the astonishing ramifications of a school choice bill just passed by the Arizona legislature that will usher in an education upheaval not only in the Grand Canyon...