The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Nike’s earning numbers exceeded Wall Street’s expectations. But CEO Elliott Hill’s next test is the World Cup [21d]
• Dell’s AI boom is real, but so is the profit margin hit nobody is pricing in [21d]
• Gen Z and millennials aren’t convinced the American Dream exists anymore: Only 40% of them can afford to buy a home [21d]
• It started with one viral influencer complaining about Russia’s economy. Now a record 60% of Russians are pessimistic about their country’s outlook [21d]
• AI is minting billion-dollar companies faster than before [21d]
• Stripe, Visa and over 140 other businesses to launch stablecoin to rival Tether and Circle [21d]
• Tom Kean discloses depression diagnosis behind 4-month absence from Congress: ‘until you experience it yourself, it is difficult to fully understand’ [21d]
• Netflix could turn NBC into its biggest bet yet — and this time, the math actually works [21d]
• ‘You can expect prices to be high and stay high’: Domestic airfare is skyrocketing faster than international flight costs, despite using less jet fuel [21d]
• Remote-first fintech giant Revolut is making the office compulsory for new Gen Z grads—and they’ll earn flexibility like their peers after one year [21d]
• America added more than 1,200 millionaires per day in 2025, but the heyday of the ‘everyday millionaire’ is already over [21d]
• Wall Street billionaire turned an hour meeting with Disney’s cofounder into an entire day together—all he did was read a report most analysts ignored [22d]
• Warren Buffett breaks from a ‘lifetime’ pledge to the Gates Foundation as the Epstein fallout deepens [22d]
• At the heart of Anthropic’s clashes with the U.S. government, a decision not to play by the new rules of Trump’s Washington [22d]
• Current price of oil as of June 30 2026 [22d]
• What the world learned from the American century: The global wealth pyramid turns into a fat diamond spinning top [22d]
• Premier League Lacrosse adds Rob Mac, Glen Powell to investors group in historic $100 million funding round [22d]
• Arkansas defies federal court to launch SNAP candy-and-soda ban Wednesday [22d]
• America’s getting a heat dome for July 4th — it won’t kill you at 2pm but might at 2am [22d]
• ICE arrested a woman in a habit walking to mass, then released her after realizing she was a nun [22d]
• New Jersey Republican to reappear in Congress after unexplained 4-month absence [22d]
• It’s so hot in Switzerland that yodelers are standing in fountains [22d]
• I grew BDO from $600 million to $3.4 billion. Here’s the 3-part formula that made it possible [22d]
• Vinod Khosla: AI’s energy crisis has a fix — and it doesn’t need the grid [22d]
• Jamie Dimon isn’t giving up the top job. That’s turned JPMorgan into a poaching ground for CEO talent [22d]