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STARSTRIKE

Months of Hollywood strikes lead to pain — and some gain — for studios like Warner

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Gas prices pop after Saudi Arabia and Russia extend cuts in oil production

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🥫 Hollywood’s stockpile savings

Full house (Alex Segre/UCG/Getty Images)

Weekended

NYC cracks down on short-term rentals, threatening platforms like Airbnb

Static

Disney and Spectrum’s ESPN fight could be the straw that breaks cable’s back

Ozempic and Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk became Europe’s most valuable company

🗽 NYC’s Airbn-ban

Time for time and a half (Jetta Productions Inc./Getty Images)

Overtime pay could expand for 3.6M Americans as the White House tries to boost the middle class

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Taylor Swift's “Eras” concert movie broke AMC’s record for first-day ticket sales

⏰ Biden’s overtime play

Gray zone (Jakub Porzycki/Getty Images)

Fund

Bitcoin could finally get its first ETF, opening the door to institutional crypto trading

Budding

Cannabis gets the official rec to be reclassified as a lower-risk drug in a symbolic step

38% of US homebuyers under 30 bought their house with financial help from family

🔦 Bitcoin’s ETF “spot” light

Pill deficit (Creative Touch Imaging/Getty Images)

Deficit

A nationwide Adderall shortage could get worse as students head back to school

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Food delivery robots expand, but like self-driving cars, they’re having growing pains

Many “pumpkin spice” flavored treats don’t contain pumpkin (though Starbucks’ PSL does)

💊 Adderall shortage

America’s hot job market is getting some shade (Mike McGinnis/Getty Images)

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US job openings hit their lowest level in 2 years as hiring cools and workers stay put

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Charged

US states push higher EV registration fees to offset lost gas taxes

US shoppers donated nearly $750M at checkout last year

🌭 Fewer job opps

Sweetgreen scrapped its cashless policy after some backlash (Jahi Chikwendiu/Getty Images)

Swiped

LA is considering a ban on cashless businesses as the plastic shift leaves some behind

Crushed

France pays farmers millions to destroy wine as young people cut back on drinking

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The first modern credit card, the Diners Club card, was introduced in 1950

💸 Cashless-biz bans

Event-travel era (Francine Orr/Getty Images)

Eventful

Hospitality companies expand offerings as “event-cations” become a hot travel trend

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How 775,000 everyday people are beating billionaires at their own game

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International hotel bookings for Labor Day weekend are up 82% from last year

🎸 Event-cation nation

DIY energy (Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

U-Turn

The right-to-repair movement gets a boost from Apple’s U-turn as Americans support DIY

LateStart

Consulting firms pay new hires to delay their start date to reduce “benchwarmers”

STABLISH

The Crypto Catch-Up…

Gen Zers cook more with an air fryer than a microwave

⚒️ Apple’s right-to-repair U-turn

Empty-deskers (10'000 Hours/Getty Images)

Meta and Goldman double down on return-to-office mandates as a third of desks sit empty

Crispy

Popeyes spreads its wings in China as US chains cash in on the country’s fast-food craze

Unpacked

Snacks Unpacked: Hollywood studios’ latest WGA offer drops as reality TV grows restless

India just became the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon

💼 Trying RTO (again)