The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Kevin Warsh showed that he’s decisively not Trump’s ‘sock puppet’—and markets didn’t like it [35d]
• The G7 just pledged to break China’s rare earth grip — there’s a lot of work to do [35d]
• The froyopocalypse is over. Gen Z is swarming frozen yogurt shops like it’s 2010 [35d]
• How surging gold prices led to the biggest jump on this year’s Southeast Asia 500 [35d]
• Apple prepares second-generation iPhone Air for spring 2027 [35d]
• Needles used to detect breast cancer in shortage from recall [35d]
• Vanguard’s alarming state of retirement in 2026: The average American has $167,970 in their account—or they have $44,115 [35d]
• World Cup, America 250 face new risk with spy law lapse [35d]
• The affordability crisis is so bad that, for the first time ever, both mom and dad are working full-time in most American families [35d]
• PayPal Mafia member and ex-Sequoia steward Roelof Botha joins SpaceX board—reuniting with Elon Musk after decades [35d]
• Biden’s flip-flopping on student loan promises made borrowers increase discretionary spending, and were 7.5% more likely to default as a result [35d]
• Kevin Warsh’s first Fed meeting sees rates hold steady and makes outright promise to deliver price stability—but don’t expect many details on when [35d]
• Tokens are getting cheaper, but companies are spending even more on AI as a result, top economist warns [35d]
• ‘AI is going to create a labor shortage’: Jeff Bezos thinks AI will create more jobs, not less, as he talks his AI startup Prometheus [35d]