Abigail Rubenstein

3 weeks ago | morningbrew.com | Abigail Rubenstein |Neal Freyman

In a Rose Garden speech anticipated with a level of hype usually reserved for Supreme collab drops, President Trump flipped the economic status quo that’s existed for decades on its head with the announcement of a minimum 10% tariff on all exporters to the US—plus higher reciprocal rates on countries he said maintain unfair trade barriers for American products. “Reciprocal. That means they do it to us, and we do it to them. Very simple,” Trump said.

3 weeks ago | morningbrew.com | Abigail Rubenstein

A group of Americans who couldn’t open their own bank accounts until 1974 are about to come into some serious cash. Women are expected to inherit the lion’s share of the wealth passed along in the Great Wealth Transfer—with one Bank of America expert estimating they’ll get as much as 70%. Research by McKinsey shows that women will control around two-thirds of the private wealth in the US by 2030 in what amounts to a major gender shift. What makes the transfer so gendered?

1 month ago | jpost.com | Abigail Rubenstein

Facebook was willing to go to extreme lengths in order to appease the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to allow Meta apps into China, whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams revealed in a Washington Post exclusive earlier this month. Wynn-Williams was a former employee of Meta, who worked on a team handling China’s policies, and noted that Meta was desperate to enter the profitable Chinese Market.

1 month ago | morningbrew.com | Abigail Rubenstein

Forget hot toddies—the hottest aprés-ski tipple is now a warm sake. Japan’s ski resorts are currently getting dumped with both snow and foreign holidaymakers. As a skiing destination, Japan is known for its light powdery snow. And recent intense snowfalls have presented both opportunity and safety concerns for Japan’s ~500 ski areas, the New York Times reports. Some areas had 12 feet of snowpack this week.

2 months ago | morningbrew.com | Abigail Rubenstein

As you scramble to track down a year’s worth of documents with tax day looming, you’re not the only one thinking about the IRS. Elon Musk’s DOGE is seeking to get into the agency’s system containing detailed financial information on US taxpayers, both individuals and businesses. According to the IRS, the system, known as The Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS)...