08 | 31 | 2026 - WB EDITION Magazine

Sylvester & Rocky Made America Better

Before he was a franchise, an action icon, or a friend to presidents, Sylvester Stallone was a broke twenty-nine-year-old with $106 in the bank and a script nobody wanted to make with him in it. What he built instead of taking the easy money became one of the purest expressions…

08 | 31 | 20260Comments ByWhilly Bermudez

America First Business

AI’s First Great Winners May Be Small-Business Owners, Not Big Tech

The five largest technology companies in America will spend roughly $725 billion building AI infrastructure this year alone. A landmark MIT study found that 95 percent of the enterprise projects that infrastructure is meant to support delivered no measurable financial return at all. Meanwhile, a hardware store owner who spent…

08 | 31 | 20260Comments ByAlfonso Pereira

America First Business

Stop Starting Businesses. Buy One That Already Works.

Roughly half of new businesses close within five years. Businesses acquired from a retiring owner survive at closer to 70 to 80 percent over that same span, and when purchased with an SBA loan, default at less than a third the rate of a brand-new venture. Meanwhile, a wave of…

08 | 31 | 20260Comments ByAnthony Waters

Business People

The New Blue-Collar Millionaires

A transit authority electrician in Ohio took home $352,904 in 2025, more than $228,000 of it in overtime alone. A data-center electrician in the right market can now clear $280,000 a year. And the plumber who starts his own company, rather than staying on someone else's payroll, routinely earns more…

08 | 31 | 20260Comments ByBethany Taylor

America First Business

Why Your Business May Be Worth Less Than You Think

"Most owners come to me already wrong about what their business is worth," one longtime business advisor put it plainly. "Not by a little. By a factor of two, sometimes three." That gap between the number an owner has carried in his head for years and the number a real…

08 | 31 | 20260Comments ByEmiliano Forza

Business Politics

Private Equity Is Buying Main Street. Should Americans Be Worried?

Your veterinarian, your HVAC contractor, your dentist, the odds that at least one of them now answers to a private equity firm you have never heard of are considerably higher than they were a decade ago. Corporate ownership of general veterinary practices has climbed from roughly 8 percent in 2011…

08 | 31 | 20260Comments ByLeonard Knowles

America First Business

The Tariff Truth: Who Actually Pays for “Made in America”?

"It's not going to be a cost to you," President Trump told supporters in September 2024, promoting his tariff plan. "It's going to be a cost to another country." Every major independent study of the actual data published since then, from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to the…

08 | 31 | 20260Comments ByLoraine Rich

America First Business

The American Dream May Be Easier to Buy Than Build

Every founder who has ever pitched an idea has heard the same romantic version of the American Dream: start with nothing, build something the world has never seen, and let the risk be the price of the reward. A quieter, less mythologized version of that same dream is sitting on…

08 | 31 | 20260Comments ByOzzie Nodal

Business Faith Uncategorized

Is Profit a Moral Good?

"The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." That is the actual verse, 1 Timothy 6:10, and the difference between what it says and what most people think it says, "money is the root of all evil," is not a minor translation quibble. It is the…

08 | 31 | 20260Comments ByRashad Pool

Business Tech

The Death of the Entry-Level Job

Anthropic's own CEO, Dario Amodei, predicted in 2025 that artificial intelligence could eliminate roughly half of all white-collar entry-level positions within five years. He was not speaking as a critic of the technology his company builds. He was speaking as someone who understands, better than almost anyone, exactly what it…

08 | 31 | 20260Comments ByRoger Tillman

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