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75 housing markets where inventory is catching up—fast

Among the nation’s 200 largest housing markets, these 75 metro areas now have active inventory at or above 2019 pre-pandemic levels.

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What business leaders should think about now

Futurist Joana Lenkova shares insight on the rapidly evolving AI landscape.

What does the future hold for business leaders and entrepreneurs? With a rapidly changing world, how does one navigate a path to success? To get a better sense of where we are heading, I caught up with Futurist Joana Lenkova of Futures Forward, who shares insight on how leaders should be thinking about the future of their business.  

The importance of B Corp certification

The process is flawed, but it’s better to work from within to fix it.

Butler/Till was introduced to the idea of becoming a B Corp in 2015 when we acquired a small marketing consultancy that did a lot of work in the energy space. Being a B Corp was really important to those employees, and with just a little bit of homework, we realized that the values involved in the certification process were the same values we’d woven into our DNA since our founding.

4 key reasons that listening is a powerful business strategy

Embracing diversity and proactive listening, not talking, can bolster your business.

The loudest voices may seem like they rise above the clamor. But success and sustained growth in business and in life takes people strong enough to listen.  

Unlock Africa’s economic potential through open trade

Payment systems are an essential part of enabling the continent to build its trade potential.

Recent tariff announcements have caused significant disruption across global markets and economies. Subsequent changes and postponements—including negotiations between major economies like China and the U.S.—offer a welcome step towards resolution. But the initial uncertainty has already prompted impacted countries to diversify their trade partnership from long-standing trade allies in order to reduce dependence on a single market.

YouTube relaxes rules about what creators can and can’t say in videos

Under the new rules, some YouTube videos that would have previously been removed for promoting misinformation can now remain on the platform.

YouTube is reportedly giving creators more leeway about what they say in videos, easing up on some of the rules it has set in the past.

With Apple’s iOS 26, you might actually want to make phone calls again

Apple made the radical decision to focus on improving the things that phones were initially designed for, and I couldn’t be happier.

Almost every article you’re going to read about Apple’s just-announced iOS 26 operating system for the iPhone is going to focus on its new “Liquid Glass” design.

‘We dissent’: NIH scientists sign letter criticizing Trump’s cuts in public health research

92 NIH researchers, program directors, branch chiefs, and scientific review officers put their signatures on the letter—and their careers on the line.

In his confirmation hearings to lead the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya pledged his openness to views that might conflict with his own. “Dissent,” he said, ”is the very essence of science.”

Are we going to have a recession? CEOs don’t think so—in fact, many say the economy will grow

Predictions from business leaders are optimistic ahead of July’s tariff deadline, according to a new survey.

More American CEOs are optimistic about the nation’s economy ahead of July’s major trade deadline than they were during the last few months, following the beginning of President Donald Trump’s tariff wars, according to this month’s CEO Confidence Index survey from the Chief Executive Group.

How Waymo got caught in the crossfire of Los Angeles ICE protests

As Los Angeles ICE protests escalated over the weekend, Waymo’s self-driving vehicles took the brunt of the damage.

Waymo vehicles, the self-driving taxis from Google parent company Alphabet, have emerged as a literal flashpoint in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests in Los Angeles, which ramped up heavily over the weekend.