The rankings are out for America’s favorite states, and once again Hawaii is at the top of the list. Surprisingly, America’s second-favorite state is the one that’s the least visited. As for least favorite states, Washington, DC (which technically isn’t a state), ranked the lowest, while the official least favorite state was the Hospitality State.

US stocks shook off early losses tied to fresh tariff announcements from President Donald Trump to finish positive on Monday. The S&P 500 inched up 0.1%, the Nasdaq 100 rose 0.3%, and the Russell 2000 advanced by 0.7%.

Coffee prices have recently surged to an all-time high, hitting $7.93 per pound of ground roast coffee in May — up from $5.99 at the same time last year, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

With coffee supplies already tightening as droughts have squeezed harvests, wholesale costs could rise as much as 50% if these tariffs take effect, which could translate to a price hike of $0.25 a cup.

It’s worth noting that coffee drinkers have had it pretty good for years. Adjusted for inflation, the price of coffee hasn’t gone up that much relative to other stuff. Had coffee tracked the wider rate of inflation over the last 45 years, the $3.21 per pound that we paid back in 1980 would actually be closer to $13 per pound today.

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If you’ve been around crypto for a while, you’ve heard claims before about some piece of blockchain technology “going mainstream” or crypto causing “inevitable shifts” that didn’t come to pass. Remember NFTs? Once pushed as a solution to everything from solving real estate sales friction to fairly compensating musicians to verifying the provenance of designer bags — and, of course, a way to collect valuable art — now NFTs are mostly mocked as a punchline involving overpriced pictures of animals. 

But we’d argue tokenization is different. This year, crypto-native companies and legacy finance institutions have been making substantial plays on tokenizing real-world assets like securities and private credit, a signal that the tokenization narrative has moved from theory to execution. 

With Congress kicking off “Crypto Week” yesterday and the Senate’s GENIUS Act moving on to the House, the regulatory environment has never been friendlier toward crypto — especially in the tokenization space, where brokerages are making moves to tokenize stocks, bringing excited investors and their capital along with them.

A crypto-friendly US administration and the advancement of blockchain legislation in Congress won’t eliminate all worry and risk. One new vehicle that’s piqued the interest of traders is the tokenization of private companies like OpenAI or SpaceX, though those very companies may not like the idea. While it seems exciting to have a vehicle for investing in companies formerly available only to private equity, one expert warns that it may lead to a “lemons market” dilemma. 

Uber and Airbnb were poster children of Web 2.0 — app-first solutions to get us somewhere and ensure we had a place to stay when we got there. But unlike Uber, which is hitting new highs, the vacay giant’s efforts to diversify the business haven’t paid off just yet, as you can see in this chart plotting the widening spread of the two companies’ valuations.

Why Uber is soaring while Airbnb isn’t traveling