When I can’t listen to a podcast without someone trying to sell me gold, when money managers tell me clients are jonesing for the shiny metal, and when friends call to ask what I think about buying it, I know without looking at a single chart that the price of gold has gone vertical and that FOMO has set in.

And wouldn’t you know, the ...Read more

After two hugely disruptive IT outages in four months, Alaska Airlines is bringing in outside experts to review its entire information technology infrastructure.

In July, an unexpected hardware failure at one of Alaska’s data centers grounded the airline’s fleet for three hours, kicking off four days of flight disruptions. That piece of ...Read more

NEWARK, Calif. — A Newark hotel was seized by its lender due to a delinquent loan, a foreclosure that highlights the wobbly values for the region’s hospitality market.

The Hyatt Place Newark/Silicon Valley hotel at 5600 John Muir Dr. is now owned by an affiliate of lender State Bank of Texas following a foreclosure of an $18 million loan, ...Read more

The bond market hasn’t rung false recession alarms for this long in at least half a century.

By Monday, it will be three full years since the market’s movements started suggesting a U.S. downturn was on the horizon. That’s when 3-month Treasury yields first pushed above 10-year ones — inverting the yield curve — as traders anticipated...Read more

First came the post-pandemic surge in prices. Then came the fastest jump in interest rates in four decades. Now, Americans are contending with a global trade war and a slowing job market.

After five years of one economic headwind after another, it’s no wonder many people feel uneasy about the U.S. economy. Few expect it to get much better.

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General Motors Co. cut hundreds of jobs on Friday, just days after raising its profit guidance for the year in a move that sent the shares soaring.

The automaker laid off more than 200 salaried staff, mostly at its Tech Center in Warren, Michigan, north of Detroit. The message was delivered around 7 a.m., when the company called some of the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES – Walt Disney Co. is alerting viewers that its channels may go dark on YouTube TV amid tense contract negotiations between the two television giants.

The companies are struggling to hammer out a new distribution deal on YouTube TV for Disney's channels, including ABC, ESPN, FX, National Geographic and Disney Channel. YouTube TV ...Read more

WHEATON, Minnesota – Sitting in a pickup rolling up to a sugar beet field on the southern edge of the Red River Valley, farmer Jamie Beyer wants to talk MAHA.

But she doesn’t know if her neighbors do. At least not in the valley, where beet farms and sugar refineries dotting the landscape north to Canada are on the opposing side of Health ...Read more

STRATFORD, Virginia — If I had pulled up to the Lee family home in 1776 in a Tesla Cybertruck, they would have thought I was a time traveler from the future.

Which is not much different than the reaction I received when I pulled up in 2025.

I took a Cybertruck on a weekend trip with Mrs. Payne this fall to help prepare Stratford Hall, the ...Read more

The U.S. economy has largely weathered historically high tariffs so far this year, but a new study says tariffs will hit Americans in 2026.

The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said it expects the U.S. economy to grow 1.8% this year, and 1.5% next year. It mostly based its prediction for slower growth on tariff ...Read more

Californians purchased a record number of zero-emission and plug-in hybrid vehicles in the third quarter of 2025, seizing their final opportunity to claim federal tax incentives before they were eliminated under President Trump’s sweeping budget cuts.

California residents bought more than 124,700 zero-emission vehicles or plug-in hybrids from...Read more

When most people think of tabletop games, images of sprawling boards, wooden pieces and long rulebooks come to mind. But one company is reimagining what it means to play.

Asmodee, a French board game publisher with U.S. operations in Lino Lakes and Roseville, Minnesota, is leaning in to the growing trading card market, which now makes up 51% of...Read more

The 2026 Kia Sportage Hybrid is proof that the Koreans have done what the Japanese did 30 years ago: looked at the established order, taken notes, and then made better cars at lower prices with more style, more cleverness, and more empathy for the human beings who actually drive them. The 2026 Kia Sportage Hybrid isn’t just an appliance; it’...Read more

As Honda Powersports enters Grasso’s Garage for the first time, we recognize why consumers have been addicted to the brand for years. Enter the 2025 Honda Pioneer 1000-5 Trail Special Edition, a rec/utility fit for any occasion, any chore and tons of off-road fun.

Powered by a torquey 999cc liquid-cooled, parallel-twin, four-stroke engine, ...Read more

Alaska Airlines has grounded all flights amid an IT outage.

The airline said Thursday afternoon it is “experiencing an IT outage affecting operations,” and that “a temporary ground stop is in place.”

Alaska advised any travelers with flights booked Thursday to check flight status before heading to the airport.

In July, the airline ...Read more

Colorado’s agricultural industry could face a multimillion-dollar hit because of tariffs, and now the state’s ranchers are concerned that a move to import more beef from Argentina could heighten the economic threats.

A state report released in September said the initial impact of tariffs on the beef industry could result in a drop of nearly...Read more

SLEEPY EYE, Minnesota — At the Sleepy Eye Auction Market on Wednesday, between sales of fattened steers and a shaggy Highland bull, chatter drifted to farm country’s latest beef with the White House: President Donald Trump’s plan to buy more beef from Argentina.

Few at the southwestern Minnesota cattle auction barn thought it would make a...Read more