Why higher pay hasn’t made adults feel richer | FT #shorts
Financial Times· 2026-04-21 06:15
Why higher pay hasn't made young adults feel richer. Are young people today really doing worse than their parents financially. The counterargument from boomers often centers on the fact that millennials and Gen Z earn more than their parents did at the same age.Case closed. Or is it. The problem is that this uses the wrong measure.Research has long shown that what shapes people's satisfaction isn't so much their paycheck as where they sit relative to others like them, both today and in the past. And here so ...
Hormuz Stays Shut Until a Deal Is Reached | Insight with Haslinda Amin 04/21/2026
Bloomberg Television· 2026-04-21 05:57
Live from Sydney, I'm Paul Allen. This is INSIGHT where we dive deeper into the stories that matter with crucial context and sharp analysis. Apple names its next CEO, Tim Cook's, going to hand the job to hardware chief John Turness on September the first, after 15 years, building it into a $4 trillion company.President Trump tells Bloomberg he wants a deal with Iran but is not extending the cease fire to get it. He also warns the Strait of Hormuz will stay shut until a deal is signed, as Pakistan plays a cr ...
Don't Make This Hiring Mistake
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2026-04-21 05:00
The biggest mistakes in my career on hiring have always been when I felt [music] something was off in the interview process, but I let my mind be persuaded that it would be okay over [music] time. It only gets exacerbated. Go with your gut. Go with your gut always. ...
Alex Jones' Infowars to become a joke on purpose as accountability finally catches up
MSNBC· 2026-04-21 04:52
In the vast, weird, really right-wing media universe in the United States of America, there's a special and unique place held by an outlet called InfoWars. And it's manic host Alex Jones. Alex Jones, for decades, has peddled Baroque conspiracy theories alongside a really scammy trade in survivalist merchandise and hilarious supplements that promise lots of things I cannot even say or describe on basic cable.InfoWars isn't just one more thing in the weird right-wing media world, for all its ridiculousness. I ...
'Corruption is growing': Questions of insider trading amid Iran war loom over Trump administration
MSNBC· 2026-04-21 04:42
If you have been watching this sho you know we haveve been paying very close attention to questions of possible insider trading amid the Iran war. And if you think we don't cover it, I invite you to watch more often. In fact, questions we have been asking since Liberation Day are all around this when it comes to trading activity.Now, finally, regulators appear to be paying attention to. Bloomberg reports that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the CFTC, is now investigating at least two instances whe ...
'Unreliable information': Trump sends mixed messages ahead of second Iran talks
MSNBC· 2026-04-21 04:33
of Trump's war in Iran. Tehran and Washington are now preparing for another round of peace talks in Pakistan. Vice President J .D.Vance will again lead the delegation, Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff and officials from the Pentagon, the National Security Council and And the State Department will also be with him. Noteworthy, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not. One foreign diplomat in Iran who is in contact with its leaders told MSNOW that they would only attend the talks if the vice president was there.Va ...
'Another one down': Wheels coming off Trump's clown car Cabinet
MSNBC· 2026-04-21 04:25
So first they got rid of Gregory Bovino, the little guy who liv in a Hsu, who was inexplicably promoted well beyond his job title to lead Donald Trump's chaotic, violent, trigger-happy, inept paramilitary invasions of multiple U .S. cities. They got rid of him. Then they got rid of Kristi Noem, the secretary of Homeland Security. Also, technically, at the same time, they also got rid of the guy who didn't formally work for the Department of Homeland Security.But nevertheless, he was there every day and at a ...
Apple Names New CEO; Korean Stocks Notch New High | The Asia Trade 4/21/2026
Bloomberg Television· 2026-04-21 04:20
SHERY: THIS IS "THE ASIA TRADE." HAIDI: THE TOP STORIES THIS HOUR. APPLE SHARES MOVING LOWER IN TRADE AS THE COMPANY NAMES JOHN TERNUS AS THE NEXT CEO WITH TIM COOK BECOMING AN EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN. OIL PRICES SLIPPED.STOCK FUTURES ARE POINTING TO GAINS FOR FEUD -- FOR ASIA. PRESIDENT TRUMP TELLING BLOOMBERG HE IS UNLIKELY TO EXTEND THE TEMPORARY TRUCE INCREASING THE URGENCY TO SEAL A DEAL IN ISLAMABAD. OIL PRICES AS WELL AS THE RISK SENTIMENT IN FOCUS AS THE URGENCY TO COUNT DOWN TO THE CEASE-FIRE DEADLINE O ...
Australia's Housing Crisis Worsens on Energy Costs
Bloomberg Television· 2026-04-21 04:18
Australia's housing crisis is facing a new pressure point. The US led war in Iran is pushing up global energy prices, driving construction costs higher and making it harder to build new homes at the same time. Causality data shows that home values in Sydney and Melbourne are now falling as higher fuel prices and rising interest rates rate weigh on buyers.Let's get more now with Nerida O'Connor's, who's the chief economist at real estate group Ray White. He's also the chair of the Australian Construction For ...
Rep. Adam Smith: Trump’s Iran claims are undermining the U.S.’s ability ‘to get any kind of deal’
MSNBC· 2026-04-21 03:49
Today, Donald Trump wrote, I'm winning a war by a lot. Things are going very well. Let's check in with Congressman Adam Smith of Washington State.He's the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. Congressman Smith, you are as well positioned as anyone in the Congress to know what's happening in this war with your jurisdiction over the Defense Department. Do you agree with Donald Trump's statement that he's winning a war, things are going very well.Yeah. First of all, the statements are nonspecifi ...