The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Trump’s unlikely promise to ‘end inflation’ still saw families paying an extra $2,120 for goods and services in 2025 [24d]
• After a decade of silence, Elon Musk’s tunneling startup and its reclusive president, are hitting the media circuit [24d]
• 3 big hurdles undermine Trump’s plan to extract Greenland’s mineral wealth—and America’s fraying relationship with Europe is one of them [24d]
• Exxon and Chevron decline new spending in Venezuela while taking a wait-and-see approach for the years ahead [24d]
• Five years after the short squeeze, GameStop’s CEO is betting on a ‘genius or totally foolish’ $100 billion-plus acquisition [24d]
• Jerome Powell warned his successor to stay out of elected politics and offered other advice. Here’s what Kevin Warsh might do as Fed chair [24d]
• Bitcoin’s freefall approaches $80,000 as precious metals also tank [24d]
• ‘We’ll save the world from cancer’: Inside Pfizer CEO’s $23 billion post‑COVID bet on oncology [24d]
• The crypto industry used to store Bitcoin in Swiss vaults. Now one firm is using vaults to hold gold instead [24d]
• Right before Trump named Warsh to lead the Fed, Powell seemed to respond to some of his biggest complaints about the central bank [24d]
• Trump’s Greenland play comes with Russia and China running circles around the US in the Arctic as expert sees ‘big game of catch-up’ [24d]
• Another ‘central casting’ central banker: Trump’s pick of Kevin Warsh fits a well-established pattern [24d]
• A reported OpenAI IPO later this year that will test investor tolerance for the AI boom’s cash bonfire [24d]
• She founded a $400 million fitness app and became a self-made millionaire at 22—but Kayla Itsines says real cash flow came after buying a gas station [24d]
• ‘What do you think is going on with the stock price?’: Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol says baristas’ market savvy makes him proud [24d]
• Kevin Warsh went from selling racetrack pencils to Trump’s new Fed chair pick. His advice for Gen Z: Merit is the ultimate currency in the workplace [24d]
• The new Fed chair’s billionaire father-in-law is a friend of Trump’s from college and has business interests in Greenland [24d]
• The new Fed chair’s billionaire father-in-law is a friend of Trump’s from college and has business interests in Greenland [24d]
• Long-time Google DeepMind researcher David Silver leaves to found his own AI startup [24d]
• Tech CFOs face a new challenge: Selling unprecedented capex as ‘disciplined’ [24d]
• Trump expands trade war with Canada, threatening 50% aircraft tariff [24d]
• Trump sues IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion over tax leak showing he didn’t pay taxes for years [24d]
• Trump moves to slap tariffs on any countries selling oil to Cuba, putting Mexico in a bind [24d]
• Twenty-somethings discover nostalgia, throwing back to a carefree time before the ‘dark days’: 2016 [24d]
• How to Choose a Mattress: The Ultimate Guide [24d]
• Trump predicts Kevin Warsh will ‘go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best,’ plus he’s ‘central casting’ [24d]
• Meet Trump’s next Fed Chair Kevin Warsh: He wants a back-seat central bank, a more bullish monetary policy, and for his dog to live a really long time [25d]
• America’s AI regulatory patchwork is crushing startups and helping China [25d]