There's a whole lot that goes into hosting the Super Bowl. I don't mean at your house, I mean at a stadium. You need two great teams, a killer halftime guest, tons of food and amenities, and of course, a Mega-sized stadium to hold it all.The Super Bowl isn't just the most watched sporting event in America, it's also the highest revenue generating media asset in all of television. Last year's game attracted more than 127 million viewers, breaking its own record set just one year prior. Nationwide, viewers of ...

The next CEO of Disney is Josh D'amaro. Fans of Disney's theme parks, cruises and resorts will know this 30 year veteran. He's held many leadership roles within the company, including president of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and Disneyland in Anaheim, California.And for the past six years, he's led the highly profitable experiences division, arguably the company's most important segment. He took over that role during the pandemic, when everything -- parks, resorts and cruises -- were all shut dow ...

When any major publicly traded company shakes up its leadership. It's a big deal, but Disney getting a new CEO is an industry defining moment, especially when it's the second time in just six years. For the past couple of decades, the mouse house has been led by Bob Iger.His legacy is arguably most shaped by the acquisitions that took place under the first tenure of his leadership, when the stock price soared. Iger spearheaded Disney's purchase of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox. These brands ...

The US private credit market is projected to grow from 3 trillion at the start of 2025 to nearly 5 trillion by 2029. Private credit is lending by non-bank financial institutions to businesses that take place outside of the public markets. >> There are so many advantages to private credit.There's the speed, the flexibility, the reaching companies that haven't really been reached before. >> Private credit typically provides loans to companies that are otherwise unable to obtain them through banks or public de ...

Companies invested more than $200 billion into US EV manufacturing across the US through 2024, mostly in Republican areas and much of it in the South. But now it's all in jeopardy. Automakers are canceling factories, cutting production, laying off workers and shifting back to gas.The federal government has rolled back EV funding and is planning to relax emissions standards. Now, some say automakers stand to lose $100 billion or more on their investments in the US. We've never seen anything like this in the ...

I have some bad news for you. America's k-shaped economy is here to stay. If you haven't heard that term yet, well, it's a fancy way of saying the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.It pretty much describes the country's worsening inequality gap. Economies can be classified in a few different ways as they rebound from a recession. Economists have widely agreed that the US has been in a K shape coming out of the pandemic.I've been writing about this for a few years. The K-shaped recovery explains how hi ...

It feels like every movie nowadays is just another sequel. Yes, I'm talking about a fifth Toy Story and a seventh Scream movie. It's been a trend playing out in Hollywood for decades, but it's even more prevalent right now.One last time. In 2025, more than half the movies released were franchises. Basically, movie studios want to guarantee success, so they're making films using characters and stories you already know.And increasingly, they're backing away from trying out new ideas. We're coming out of an er ...

This Fed horse race has swung a bunch of different ways since the process began last September. Kevin Walsh is a former Fed governor, has a reputation as a bit of a maverick. He believes, basically that the Fed needs kind of a housecleaning.This isn't the first time you've heard me in the last decade say we need regime change at the Fed. It's not just about a person. It's about an approach to economics. It's about approach to what they're doing.And I'm troubled when I see them moving the goalposts. He's mos ...

We're at risk of a government shutdown because of a federal immigration action in Minnesota. Now, in the past few weeks, we've seen two US citizens killed who were protesting the US federal immigration response in Minnesota. Those citizens were Renee Goode and Alex Peretti.Democrats in the Senate were ready to vote for this package of bills to fund about half of the government. But now, after the pair of killings in Minnesota, they're threatening to withhold their votes unless Senate Republicans remove the ...

In the wake of violent confrontations between federal agents and protesters over President Donald Trump's immigration policy, corporate leaders are now starting to do something they've rarely done in the first year of Trump 2.0%: disagree with the president. I think they should change their approach to immigration. I've said it.JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon publicly criticized Trump's immigration policy, making an apparent reference to videos of confrontations between ICE agents and their targets. Of course, I d ...