Barron's
AI’S HAZY DAYS
AArtificial intelligence promises to remake economies, supercharge productivity, cure cancer, discover new drugs, and solve climate change. It’s also said to be destroying jobs, privacy, profit margins, and the search for truth. One piece of data...
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JAMIE DIMON’S ENDGAME
Jamie Dimon is telling us all about his plans. He wants to start a news outlet that covers public policy—appealing to “nerds like me,” Dimon says. There’s always government service, like Treasury secretary—“It’s too late for me to run for president.”...
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Microsoft Is Ready For the AI Battle
In the midst of the cloud’s emergence in 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously declared that “software is eating the world.” Hardware was becoming commoditized and business software was taking over IT budgets. Andreessen’s prescient call...
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THE TRILLIONDOLLAR ELECTRIC BILL
NNo AI magic trick is quite as impressive as the one it’s doing in financial markets—giving some utilities an upper hand with tech giants that are 100 times their size. It’s a trick that investors can cash in on. A handful of utilities are poised to...
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DOLLAR in DECLINE
The dollar is in decline, and investors have to learn to live with it. The past 12 months were tough for the greenback. The U.S. Dollar Index, which measures the dollar’s value against a basket of developed currencies, slid 8% over the past year—and...
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THE CATTLE CRISIS
It’s late morning in Central Texas Hill Country, and a Black Baldy is prodded into a small auditorium of Western hats and dusty ball caps. Her dark coat and stark white face is typical of this cow breed known for easy calving and attentive mothering....
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ROBOTS GET REAL
Lsomething from a galaxy far, far away, robots are getting closer to their big takeover. Once the domain of science fiction, autonomous robots—think C-3PO from Star Wars or Baymax from Big Hero 6—are getting closer by the year. At 2025’s CES...
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He’s Wall Street’s Biggest Showman.
Dan Ives is an analyst— and a whole lot more.
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5 YEARS LATER
Five years ago, investors in a videogame retailer teetering toward bankruptcy nearly toppled the global financial system. The so-called GameStop revolution inspired books, countless blogs, TV specials, and even a Hollywood film. But for a short time,...
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The Roundtable
Our panelists are (mostly) bullish on the economy and stocks. Tech is expensive but healthcare, utilities, and consumer names could rally in ’26. Is the age of indexing over? IIf the stock market climbs a wall of worry, that wall is getting higher by...
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Best Income Investments 2026 for
Just when income investors were ready to give up on the bond market, it went and had its best year since 2020. The outlook is good for 2026, too, despite some growing risks. How troublesome has the bond market been? Many investors were abandoning the...
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QUALITY STOCKS 40% CHEAPER*
We’re incautiously optimistic—buy hot garbage,” advised none of the big investment firms a year ago in their 2025 outlooks. Pity. The S&P 500 index, despite a springtime tariff wobble, has so far returned a splashy 18%. And since the beginning of...
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Wall Street’s New Wager
On any given Sunday, Americans flock to their couches to watch hours of football on TV. Wall Street trading floors are closed, but the American pastime has become prime time for upstart financial platforms known as prediction markets. This past...
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THE RACE IS ON
Kevin Hassett may be the next Federal Reserve chair. Some former colleagues are worried about his independence.
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WALL STREET’S NEW RICH
WWill the last old-school banker please turn out the lights? This past Monday night in a packed Times Square ballroom, some 2,000 attendees rose out of their seats to salute the latest lion of Wall Street, Marc Rowan, CEO of Apollo Global Management....
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