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What investors expect to see in 2025 under Trump

Trump’s tariffs and protectionist trade policies are likely to bolster the buck.

U.S. investors are preparing for a swathe of changes in 2025, from tariffs and deregulation to tax policy, that will ripple through markets as President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, putting the focus on whether the U.S. economy can continue to outperform.

Crypto industry eyes Trump’s executive orders

One industry group has gone as far as to draft a text of a potential executive order Trump could use to establish a bitcoin stockpile.

The cryptocurrency industry is pushing President-elect Donald Trump‘s team to kick start his promised crypto policy overhaul when he takes office next month with executive orders that would help push tokens mainstream, according to industry officials.

Fake AI-generated reviews are all over the internet, research shows

Fake reviews are found across a wide range of industries, from e-commerce, lodging, and restaurants to services such as home repairs, medical care, and piano lessons.

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence tools that allow people to efficiently produce novel and detailed online reviews with almost no work has put merchants, service providers and consumers in uncharted territory, watchdog groups and researchers say.

Banning Chinese-made drones could hurt some Americans

A broader ban is worrisome for Americans for whom drones have become a part of their lives and work.

Russell Hedrick, a North Carolina farmer, flies drones to spray fertilizers on his corn, soybean and wheat fields at a fraction of what it would cost him to use a conventional ground spreader.

How (and why) to start using an RSS reader for news again

With the right setup, RSS is still one of the most empowering ways to control your online content consumption.

Imagine having a single app to keep up with your favorite news sources, YouTube channels, newsletters, and blogs, all in an easy-to-read format with no social media algorithms deciding what you see.

This investor made a fortune during the 2008 housing crash. Here’s his take on today’s housing market

Real estate investor Michael Zuber made it through the 2008 housing crash, bought the bottom, and retired with more than 170 rentals.

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3 workplace trends that will define 2025

These are some of the biggest topics that will influence the way we all work next year.

Coffee badging. The Great Stay. Revenge quitting. 

This new AI chatbot is your personal present-finding wizard

Use DreamGift to find the ideal gift for a friend, colleague, or family member—or just to get your creative juices flowing.

Finding the perfect present isn’t always easy—especially if the people in your life are, let’s say, challenging to shop for.

How Bob Dylan’s genre-bending transformed modern music

By the end of 1964, Dylan yearned to break away permanently from the constraints of the folk genre—and from the notion of ‘genre’ altogether.

The Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet, focuses on Dylan’s early 1960s transition from idiosyncratic singer of folk songs to internationally renowned singer-songwriter.

4 hours, 100 artists, and one 26-minute flute song: This epic new album is in support of trans rights

A new compilation from Red Hot arrives at a critical moment for the trans community—and the organization that produced the album.

In 2024, the singer Sade released her first song in six years, “Andre 3000” debuted a 26-minute flute song, and Sam Smith covered Sylvester’s “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”—and it was all for the same project. They are three of the more than 100 artists who contributed original songs and covers to Transa, a nearly four-hour epic of a compilation album from longstanding advocacy-through-music organization Red Hot.