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Liverpool FC just won the Premier League title. Here’s how its brand wins off the field

Ben Latty, Liverpool FC’s chief commercial officer, on how off-field business drives on-field success.

As Liverpool FC stars Mo Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold, and Virgil van Dijk celebrated winning the Premier League club’s 20th title on Sunday, you can bet that across the ocean thousands of American fans were ordering shirts with their names on the back. 

California housing market shift: Buyers are gaining power

California is almost out of its pandemic-era housing inventory hole.

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Is Apple falling behind on hardware?

The company’s wait-and-see approach once led to category-defining innovations. But rivals are starting to pull ahead.

If you’ve followed Apple for any length of time, you’ve no doubt come across the notion that the company doesn’t rush into adopting cutting-edge technology; instead, it waits until it can do it right.

Why Shakespeare’s take on happiness still resonates in 2025

The Bard’s plays offer warnings about the costs of cultural fantasies about happiness that make it more possible for some, but not for all.

What is “happiness”—and who gets to be happy?

How to protect your life savings from the tariff fiasco

The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 provides a precedent on the impact of tariffs. Can looking at history also help you protect your investments?

If the tariff-triggered drop in your 401(k) balance has got you sobbing into a pint of Ben & Jerry’s, you’re not alone. U.S. and global markets have yo-yoed in reaction to the current administration’s inexplicable tariff wars. And since this market downturn is a direct result of American foreign economic policy, we may not be able to just wait for a recovery in the next few months (or years).

Feeling stressed? Here’s 2 ways to practice gratitude to help

While the negative news is clearly drawing attention, a gratitude list is meant to help highlight the positive so that it doesn’t go overlooked.

A lot has been written about gratitude over the past two decades and how we ought to be feeling it. There is advice for journaling and a plethora of purchasing options for gratitude notebooks and diaries. And research has consistently pointed to the health and relationship benefits of the fairly simple and cost-effective practice of cultivating gratitude.

How subtle mindset shifts can create massive change in our lives

Stanford psychologist Greg Walton reveals how small psychological shifts—known as wise interventions—can create profound change.

Greg Walton, PhD, is the co-director of the Dweck-Walton Lab and a professor of psychology at Stanford University. Dr. Walton’s research is supported by many foundations, including Character Lab, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. He has been covered in major media outlets including The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Los Angeles Times.

Elon Musk’s Trump gamble is costing him bigly

With Telsa profits plummeting and Musk’s own net worth down nearly $200 billion, the full cost of his bet on Donald Trump is coming into focus.

Tesla released its quarterly earnings report on Tuesday, its first since the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, took up residence in the Trump White House and immediately began trying to fire federal workers, gut regulators, and illegally withhold funding from recipients who are entitled to it. The numbers are, to use a technical term, grim: Tesla’s net income for the first three months of the year was $409 million, down precipitously from $1.4 billion over the same period in 2024. According to The New York Times, things could have been much worse: Had Tesla not been able to supplement its sales by earning $400 million in interest and close to $600 million selling emissions credits, it would have been hundreds of millions of dollars in the red. 

Say goodbye to cheap versions of Ozempic and Wegovy

This week in Ozempic news: No more compounded GLP-1s, weight-loss pills are coming, and WeightWatchers is filing for bankruptcy.

There’s never a dull day in the world of weight-loss medication. This week brought new restrictions on compounded GLP-1 medication, the cheaper, copycat versions of brand-name drugs that telehealth companies like Hims & Hers and Noom had been offering. Other developments include news that GLP-1 pills are on the way, and that a bankruptcy filing by weight-loss giant WeightWatchers is imminent. Let’s dive in.

Housing market inventory with a price cut just hit a decade high

In total, 302,260 U.S. homes for sale on Realtor.com in March 2025 had a price cut. That represents 33.9% of the active U.S. housing inventory.

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