Let’s start with a number that doesn’t get nearly enough attention: 8,090. That was the total number of publicly traded companies listed on U.S. exchanges at the market’s peak in 1996. Today, that number has been cut nearly in half — sitting just under 4,000. Meanwhile, the firms responsible for connecting investors to those companies — broker-dealers — have followed...
March 8, 2026
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The Perfect Storm:
When AI Job Destruction Meets the Baby Bust — Is College a Trap? In Part I of this series, we documented the demographic freight train bearing down on America’s college campuses — a declining birth rate, shuttering institutions, and a generation of students that simply never arrived. But while administrators have been laser-focused on the enrollment cliff ahead, a second...
The Human Cost of the Machine: AI, Public Companies, and the Soul of Capitalism
Let’s start with a number: 4,000. That’s how many people Jack Dorsey just told to clean out their desks at Block — the company behind Square, Cash App, and Afterpay. Forty percent of the entire workforce, gone in a memo. And here’s the kicker: the company’s business is doing just fine. Gross profit up 24% year-over-year. Stock jumped 24% on...
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- A roadmap for AI, if anyone will listenby Connie Loizos on March 8, 2026 at 6:05 am
The Pro-Human Declaration was […]
- Push for $40 smartphones builds momentum, but still faces cost hurdlesby Jagmeet Singh on March 8, 2026 at 5:00 am
A coalition of telecom […]
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Fewer Players, Fewer Choices: How the Collapse of Broker-Dealers and Public Companies Is Quietly Locking Ordinary Americans Out of the Market
Let’s start with a number that doesn’t get nearly enough attention: 8,090. That was the total number of publicly traded...
The Perfect Storm:
When AI Job Destruction Meets the Baby Bust — Is College a Trap? In Part I of this series, we...
The Human Cost of the Machine: AI, Public Companies, and the Soul of Capitalism
Let’s start with a number: 4,000. That’s how many people Jack Dorsey just told to clean out their desks at...
Iran: The New Proxy Battleground — And the War Has Already Started
The chess match for Iran’s future didn’t start Saturday. It started the moment Washington, Moscow, and Beijing each decided —...
Easy Part: What Comes After Khamenei?
Operation Epic Fury They got him. Early Saturday morning, February 28, 2026, in a joint U.S.-Israeli military operation dubbed “Operation...
The Club Nobody Asked to Join: How the Epstein Files Are Unmasking the Institutions That Rule the World
Let’s start with a simple question. Have you ever wondered who decides who gets the Nobel Peace Prize? Five people....
Mexico on Fire: El Mencho’s Death, the Asylum Question, and the Money Nobody Wants to Follow
Let’s be honest about something from the start. The story of Mexico’s cartel crisis and the United States border debate...
Is Mexico’s Economy on the Edge? The El Mencho Killing Just Made a Fragile Situation Much Worse
The images coming out of Puerto Vallarta this weekend look like something from a war film — burned-out vehicles blocking...
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- A roadmap for AI, if anyone will listenby Connie Loizos on March 8, 2026 at 6:05 am
The Pro-Human Declaration was finalized before last week's Pentagon-Anthropic standoff, but the collision of the two events wasn’t lost on anyone […]
- Push for $40 smartphones builds momentum, but still faces cost hurdlesby Jagmeet Singh on March 8, 2026 at 5:00 am
A coalition of telecom operators and device makers is pushing $40 smartphones to bring up to 20 million people online, but rising component costs […]
- Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay packageby Connie Loizos on March 8, 2026 at 12:20 am
Most of it is tied to performance, including new stock incentives linked to Waymo and Wing, its drone delivery venture.
- Grammarly’s ‘expert review’ is just missing the actual expertsby Anthony Ha on March 7, 2026 at 10:56 pm
A recently-added feature in Grammarly purports to improve users’ writing with help from the world's great writers and thinkers — and some tech […]
- OpenAI hardware exec Caitlin Kalinowski quits in response to Pentagon dealby Anthony Ha on March 7, 2026 at 8:44 pm
Hardware executive Caitlin Kalinowski announced today that in response to OpenAI's controversial agreement with the Department of Defense, she’s […]
- PopSockets founder David Barnett talks about building a viral businessby Dominic-Madori Davis on March 7, 2026 at 6:40 pm
David Barnett, founder of PopSocket, stops by Equity to talk about scaling the business and what he's learned as a leader.
- OpenAI delays ChatGPT’s ‘adult mode’ againby Anthony Ha on March 7, 2026 at 5:28 pm
The feature, which will give verified adult users access to erotica and other adult content, had already been delayed from December.
- Robinhood’s startup fund stumbles in NYSE debutby Marina Temkin on March 7, 2026 at 2:04 am
The fund currently offers retail investors exposure to eight startups, including Mercor, Ramp, and Stripe, with plans to expand its portfolio.
- X is testing a new ad format that connects posts with productsby Sarah Perez on March 6, 2026 at 10:41 pm
An ad test on X promotes Musk's Starlink beneath original content.
- Nintendo sues the US government for a refund on tariffsby Amanda Silberling on March 6, 2026 at 10:35 pm
This lawsuit comes after a Supreme Court decision struck down some of the president's sweeping tariffs, which had impacted Nintendo and thousands of […]
- Life EV officially owns Rad Power Bikes nowby Kirsten Korosec on March 6, 2026 at 9:56 pm
The Rad Power brand is expected to live on.
- OSHA probing fatality at Rivian warehouseby Sean O'Kane on March 6, 2026 at 8:23 pm
A 61-year-old worker died on Thursday after reportedly getting stuck between a tractor trailer and a loading dock.