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NBA Finals: Would you pay $4,000 – for a nosebleed seat?

Demand for the New York Knicks' first NBA Finals appearance in decades has sent ticket prices soaring, with even the cheapest seats at Madison Square Garden costing nearly $4,000 and some fans opting to fly to Texas instead.

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Gas hasn’t been this cheap on Labor Day since 2020

Americans soaking up the end of summer this holiday weekend will catch a break at the gas pump. Labor Day gas prices are expected to average $3.15 per gallon this year— the cheapest since 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to GasBuddy. That’s down modestly from $3.29 last Labor Day.

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‘Tariff Bingo is tough.’ Texas manufacturers sweat Trump’s tariffs, high interest rates

Texas manufacturers continue to express frustration over the Trump administration’s volatile tariff playbook and the impact of high borrowing costs.

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‘Tariff Bingo is tough.’ Texas manufacturers sweat Trump’s tariffs, high interest rates

Texas manufacturers continue to express frustration over the Trump administration’s volatile tariff playbook and the impact of high borrowing costs.

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Tariffs are giving parents back-to-school sticker shock

Lisa Ward was startled at the prices on sneakers when she recently went back-to-school shopping for her twin boys. “All of them were at least $10 or $20 more than last year. That pissed me off, but I didn’t have a choice,” said Ward, a finance professional who lives outside of Atlanta.

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Top exec reveals the ‘stupidest thing’ companies adopting AI can do

The president of Cisco rejects the doomsday warnings from some tech leaders that artificial intelligence will make entry-level jobs vanish.

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The ‘godfather of AI’ reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI

Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “godfather of AI,” fears the technology he helped build could wipe out humanity — and “tech bros” are taking the wrong approach to stop it.

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Tariff rebate checks may sound awesome but they could be ‘quite dangerous’

President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff regime is generating so much revenue for the federal government that Washington could eventually return some of that windfall to taxpayers.

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Tariff rebate checks may sound awesome but they could be ‘quite dangerous’

President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff regime is generating so much revenue for the federal government that Washington could eventually return some of that windfall to taxpayers.

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How Trump’s mass deportations could backfire on the American economy by shrinking paychecks

President Donald Trump has promised to unleash an economic boom that will turbocharge growth, fatten paychecks and chip away at America’s mountain of debt.

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