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RL Restaurant
If the walls could talk, plenty would listen. RL means business, from its impeccably dressed clientele and crisp white tablecloths to its country-club cuisine and service. Portraits of historic movers and shakers line the wood-paneled walls while those in its buttery leather booths are making significant deals of their own.
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A team happy hour
Roanoke
Early on most every weeknight evening, youll find the U-shaped bar at this casual Loop spot filled with savvy imbibers. Happy hour is a sport here, and Roanoke always has its game face on. A 12-top communal table in the handsome, dark wood-filled space is perfect for your after-work gang.
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Celebrating a company win
Asador Bastian
You can tell a lot about a place just from its napkins and knives, which here are plush and monogrammed, respectively. Located inside a multistoried historic townhouse, this Basque-influenced steakhouse and its dapper first-floor lounge quietly exude class, from its vintage cocktail list to aged steaks from rare specialty cows.
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Getting inspired
Dearly Beloved
Tarantula tincture, liquid chlorophyll, ube pineapple airthis cutting-edge River North bar nudges customers out of their comfort zones with eye-catching cocktails. Stuck on a solution for a new campaign? The chill vibe and Instagram-worthy drinksa mascarpone-infused espresso martini, perhapsmight be just the ticket to inspire some out-of-the-box thinking.
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Showing off stellar views to a client
Z Bar
Its not the highest rooftop bar in the city but what this sophisticated Peninsula Chicago hotel lounge lacks in altitude it more than makes up for in attitude. Whether you sit at the oval-shaped bar, low-top tables, or casually chic patio, dramatic views of Chicagos iconic skyscrapers will surround you.
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Confidential conversation
Pearl Club
Need to seal a top-secret deal? The only connection to the outside world at this intimate lounge is its revolving door. Inside the triangle-shaped space are jewel-toned couches and cozy nooks with glam light fixtures providing a warm glow no matter the time of day. Sit back and relax; no one is watching.
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Sipping alfresco
The Bellevue
Hiding in plain sight in the heart of the bustling Gold Coast, this modern American restaurant and lounge feels like an insiders secret. The expansive plant-filled patio is a prime people-watching perch that more than lives up to its namebeautiful view. Its a little slice of paradise under the sun or stars.
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A nightcap after a business event
Maple & Ash
This multistory steakhouse has swagger to spare and doesnt hold back when it comes to lavish extras. Nor should you. Plush velvet chairs, wood-paneled ceiling, and luxe light fixtures add to its celebratory vibe. A special nightcap menu features a mini espresso martini tree and caviar and champagne service.
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New Yorks best bar for . . .
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Professional networking
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Charlie Palmer Steak IV at the Knickerbocker Hotel
The birthplace of the dry martini (1907) is a longtime go-to for rubbing elbows with corporate regulars. The bars glowing, wavy-glass display of top-shelf spirits is all business. Or choose a spot at a highboy or cadet blue corduroy settee to talk trade in this calming, legendary room.
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A team happy hour
Iris
The sleek, blonde-wood bar is topped by silver-domed task lamps, helpful for studying the innovative menu of Aegean-themed booze and bites, like the mezze plate or Ouzo mussels. It anchors an expansive dining room with clean lines and a roomy lounge area with comfy gray couches perfect for after-hours mingling.
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Local flavor
Perrine at the Pierre Hotel
Slipping into a cushioned barstool at the black marble bar, which glows under silver-hooded lamps, feels like returning to the Pierres 1930s origins. The space, just steps from Central Park, is all class and calm. As you imbibe alongside locals and hotel guests,watching yellow taxis whiz down Fifth Avenue, youll complete a dreamy, classic NYC tableau.
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Showing off stellar views to a client
Nubeluz at the Ritz Carlton NoMad
Theres plenty to wow you at this 50th-floor gemsumptuous banquettes, unique craft cocktails, and a sophisticated clientele. But the killer views, in almost all directions through floor-to-ceiling windows, are the standout. Snag a velvet settee on the west-facing terrace to watch the golden sunset over the Hudson River.
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Celebrating a company win
The Terrace at the Times Square Edition Hotel
This glamorous refuge offers several sanctums to toast your teams success: the white-walled main bar with red velvet barstools and ornate spirit decanters displayed like art; the inner garden, under a canopy of hanging plants and colored lanterns; and the coveted outdoor terrace, where potted boxwoods, birch trees, and evergreens shelter you from Times Square.
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Getting inspired
Clemente Bar at Eleven Madison Park
One flight up from the fine dining destination is this cheekier low-lit retreat, an homage to Italian painter Francesco Clemente, whose paintings hang on the walls. As you sip cocktails infused with green curry and acidified papaya, the artwork and whimsical mushroom lamps by Carsten Höller will get your creative juices flowing.
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Bar Calico at the Freehand Hotel
This cozy ochre-lit hideaway tucked above the hotels lobby is an homage to 1920s neighbor Georgia OKeeffe. The Southwest vibestribal motif rugs, steer skull on the wallare on point. And the cocktails are delectable and clever, like the Muse, served with half a passionfruit to slurp between sips.
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A nightcap after a business event
Pen Top at the Peninsula Hotel
Crown your evening in this rooftop oasis, where a small, glass-enclosed bar area emanates airy greenhouse vibes. An outdoor patio has potted plants, cream banquettes (some reserved for groups), tables for bottle service, a louvred rooftop that snaps shut when it rains, and views of architectural gems, from the Beaux-Art St. Regis to Billionaires Row skyscrapers.
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Charlie Palmer Steak IV at the Knickerbocker Hotel
The birthplace of the dry martini (1907) is a longtime go-to for rubbing elbows with corporate regulars. The bars glowing, wavy-glass display of top-shelf spirits is all business. Or choose a spot at a highboy or cadet blue corduroy settee to talk trade in this calming, legendary room.
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A team happy hour
Iris
The sleek, blonde-wood bar is topped by silver-domed task lamps, helpful for studying the innovative menu of Aegean-themed booze and bites, like the mezze plate or Ouzo mussels. It anchors an expansive dining room with clean lines and a roomy lounge area with comfy gray couches perfect for after-hours mingling.
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Local flavor
Perrine at the Pierre Hotel
Slipping into a cushioned barstool at the black marble bar, which glows under silver-hooded lamps, feels like returning to the Pierres 1930s origins. The space, just steps from Central Park, is all class and calm. As you imbibe alongside locals and hotel guests,watching yellow taxis whiz down Fifth Avenue, youll complete a dreamy, classic NYC tableau.
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Showing off stellar views to a client
Nubeluz at the Ritz Carlton NoMad
Theres plenty to wow you at this 50th-floor gemsumptuous banquettes, unique craft cocktails, and a sophisticated clientele. But the killer views, in almost all directions through floor-to-ceiling windows, are the standout. Snag a velvet settee on the west-facing terrace to watch the golden sunset over the Hudson River.
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Celebrating a company win
The Terrace at the Times Square Edition Hotel
This glamorous refuge offers several sanctums to toast your teams success: the white-walled main bar with red velvet barstools and ornate spirit decanters displayed like art; the inner garden, under a canopy of hanging plants and colored lanterns; and the coveted outdoor terrace, where potted boxwoods, birch trees, and evergreens shelter you from Times Square.
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Getting inspired
Clemente Bar at Eleven Madison Park
One flight up from the fine dining destination is this cheekier low-lit retreat, an homage to Italian painter Francesco Clemente, whose paintings hang on the walls. As you sip cocktails infused with green curry and acidified papaya, the artwork and whimsical mushroom lamps by Carsten Höller will get your creative juices flowing.
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IYKYK experiences
Bar Calico at the Freehand Hotel
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A nightcap after a business event
Pen Top at the Peninsula Hotel
Crown your evening in this rooftop oasis, where a small, glass-enclosed bar area emanates airy greenhouse vibes. An outdoor patio has potted plants, cream banquettes (some reserved for groups), tables for bottle service, a louvred rooftop that snaps shut when it rains, and views of architectural gems, from the Beaux-Art St. Regis to Billionaires Row skyscrapers.
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U.S. President Donald Trump is set to imminently ask the conservative-majority Supreme Court to validate his broad emergency tariffs after two setbacks at lower courts, but will face tough legal questions as his administration presses ahead with backup plans.
Legal and trade experts said that the Supreme Court’s 6-3 majority of Republican-appointed justices may slightly improve Trump’s odds of keeping in place his “reciprocal” and fentanyl-related tariffs after a federal appeals court ruled 7-4 last week that they are illegal.
Trump said on Tuesday that his administration would seek as early as Wednesday an expedited ruling by the Supreme Court “because we need an early decision.” He warned of “devastation” if the duties he imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) are struck down.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit agreed on Friday with a lower court in finding that IEEPA does not grant the president unlimited authority to impose tariffs and the 1977 statute does not mention the term among regulatory powers it allows in a national emergency.
The ruling marked a rare setback for Trump, who has sought to re-order the global economy in the U.S.’s favor with tariffs by declaring a national emergency over decades of trade deficits. Trump won a string of Supreme Court victories since returning to office, from allowing deportation of migrants to permitting a ban on transgender people in the military.
Top administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, say they expect the Supreme Court to uphold the use of IEEPA to justify tariffs, but will turn to other legal means if needed. The tariffs will remain in place at least through October 14 to allow time for the government to file the Supreme Court appeal.
MAJOR QUESTIONS DOCTRINE
Trump’s Department of Justice has argued that the law allows tariffs under emergency provisions that authorize a president to “regulate” imports or block them completely.
How far that unwritten regulatory authority goes is the biggest challenge for Trump’s appeal, and two losses have led some legal scholars to predict that the Court of International Trade’s original ruling against the tariffs will ultimately be upheld.
“I have a really hard time believing that the Supreme Court is going to read IEEPA in such a broad way that the President can write and rewrite the tariff code in any way he wishes, on any particular day for any particular reason,” said John Veroneau, a former Republican-appointed deputy U.S. Trade Representative and partner at Covington and Burling.
Veroneau said that the case will test the Supreme Court’s “major questions doctrine”, which holds that if Congress wants to give an executive agency the power to make decisions of “vast economic and political significance,” it must do so explicitly.
The doctrine was used against former President Joe Biden in 2023 when the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that he overstepped his authority by moving to cancel up to $400 billion in student loans – an order that the court said had a “staggering” scope of impact.
A key question is whether the court will apply the same standard to Trump’s tariffs. Comparing these to the impact of the student loan cancellations, the appeals court said in its decision that “the overall economic impact of the tariffs imposed under the governments reading of IEEPA is even larger still.”
SPLIT DECISION
Balancing this will be the Supreme Court’s traditional deference to the president on matters of foreign affairs and national emergencies, an issue where the 6-3 conservative majority may come into play. Six of the seven appeals court judges voting against the IEEPA tariffs were appointed by Democratic presidents, but there were crossover votes among both parties’ appointees.
“Given the Federal Circuits majority opinion and the dissent were quite robust, the Supreme Court will likely address the meat of whether IEEPA allows the administration to impose tariffs,” said Ryan Majerus, a former senior Commerce Department official and a partner with King and Spalding.
“That decision, either way, will have significant implications for where the administration’s trade policy goes next,” Majerus said.
The Trump administration has already been expanding tariff investigations under other legal authorities, including the national security-focused Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 under which a probe into furniture imports has been launched.
Bessent told Reuters that another option could be a provision of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which allows the president to impose tariffs of up to 50% on imports from countries that are found to discriminate against U.S. commerce. The statute, Section 338, has been largely dormant for decades but would allow for quick imposition of tariffs.
If the IEEPA tariffs ultimately are struck down, trade lawyers said that a major headache for the Trump administration will be refunds of paid duties. Majerus said importers can lodge protests at the Customs and Border Protection agency to obtain refunds, but these efforts may end up in litigation.
CBP reported that as of August 25, collections of Trump’s tariffs imposed under IEEPA totaled $65.8 billion.
A source familiar with the Trump administration’s thinking said that lawyers sifted through the ruling over the Labor Day holiday weekend to gauge possible outcomes and expected a quick appeal to the Supreme Court, with a final decision likely in early 2026.
David Lawder and Andrea Shalal, Reuters
Grab is a rideshare service-turned superapp, not available in the U.S. but rapidly growing in Southeast Asia. Its even outmaneuvered global players like Uber to reach a valuation north of $20 billion. Grabs cofounder and CEO Anthony Tan shares how the platform has successfully expanded into food delivery and fintech, while also investing in the future of electric vehicles and autonomous driving. For any leader looking to bolster their company culture to meet the moment, Tan shares how his team set in motion an ambitious project to study and creatively implement AIchanneling both the hunger and humility to win in a competitive and chaotic market.
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Grab started in 2012 as a rideshare platform. It’s since grown into Southeast Asia’s largest super app, providing food delivery and financial services, and more. The term “super app,” is this an increasingly popular concept? What does super app mean to you?
Well, the super app just means an app that has multiple services. If you look at how it’s evolved here in Southeast Asia, we started just to solve Southeast Asian problems. For example, safety. Safety was a major issue. We wanted to make sure rides were safe for women and children. That was a real problem, and we solved that. We are now at 99.9% safety. And then we said, “Okay, what’s next?” We realized, “Wait, but to get drivers, you needed to lend them a phone.” How do you lend them a phone? Because many of them didn’t even have a smartphone. So we said we’ll start a financing business. So we have fintech built into the Grab app. It was just like one service after another. And then when we [looked at] payments, we said, “Hey, the driver became an ATM, mobile ATM, and it wasn’t safe for them.” So we said, “You know what? Let’s just take cash out of the system.” The drivers have a GrabPay wallet. The customer has a GrabPay wallet. So all this just helped build more and more services on one app.
I was going to ask you about the fintech stuff, because obviously you’re providing a service, but also fintech tends to have better margins than rideshare and delivery, which are tough businesses. How much of the economics was part of the decision where like, “Oh, that’s a gap that is valuable for us to fill”?
The key is two things: One, how do you create amazing data? And two, how do you create an amazing collection? It’s easier to lend money out. The issue is collecting it, right, Bob? So as more and more services are rolled out, every day services are rolled out, more and more data is gathered. As more and more data is gathered, that data has given us an advantage to lend, because we basically create a credit score across hundreds of distinct data points, but it’s that massive data advantage that allows us to price risk much better and to collect much better.
You mentioned that Grab operates in multiple countries. I think eight different countries, if I’ve got it right. I’m not sure how many youre up to now.
That’s right.
For a lot of businesses that cross borders, 2025 has been a challenging year. I mean, you alluded to it, there’s been geopolitical tensions and economic trade war sparked by the Trump administration. How does all that impact Grab?
Yeah, the geopolitical environment hasn’t been easy. The tariff war hasn’t been easy. When factories have to close down because of the tariffs or whatever shocks that are happening, we are able to cushion all this additional employment. Governments really appreciate it because they’re really concerned when unemployment shoots up. So they see that we’ve been able to drive not just more employment, but within 20 minutes, they can sign up to be a delivery partner, to be a driver. But as we got more supply, actually, prices came down. So if you look at our financials, interestingly, we have more supply, which means less search sessions, which means lower prices, which means more affordability, which means more customers. Yet at the same time, our earnings per online hour keeps going up. So our drivers earn more on a per-hour basis. So really, we are seeing a win-win-win as a counter cyclical platform across all our cities in the region.
I saw that last summer you implemented a company pause for a couple of months to upskill your employees on AI, something you called cyber organization. Why was this necessary at that time? What did it look like?
I think mindset change is tough, especially in an org of over 9,000 people. First, we had to really upskill folks, but shock the system. So we did a generative AI sprint. I spoke to everyone, whether you’re from engineering and data science, you’re an AI specialist, or you are someone just signing up merchants in a tier-three city in Vietnam. We said, “For nine weeks, folks, we’re going to focus on learning and experimenting.” The goal outcome was, every Grabber has to be a technologist regardless of what background you come from.
Before we started the sprint, something like 80% of folks were worried that their jobs would be replaced. But interestingly, by the end of it, 80% were saying they understand generative AI so much better, and they can see how it’s helping their jobs. Total mindset shift. And that’s the beauty. It wasn’t just, “Hey, we just wanted to create a sprint for fun.” We built real generative AI solutions. For example, we created AI Merchant Assistant. Now that’s deployed across millions of long-tail merchants. We worked with the top R&D labs across the world like Anthropic.
Yesterday I was just looking at, we use Claude 4, to think about how to make it so much more empathetic, so much more relevant for the merchants. So now it’s helping them not just boost their sales, helping them with photo edits, helping them position how they look on GrabFood, across the customers, how to pack. They even ask questions, Bob, like, “Oh, business isn’t good. Times are tough. Can you give me some encouragement, please?” And the Merchant Assistant talks in such an empathetic, such an encouraging way, a their personal best friend. So that’s the type of product that couldn’t have come out without this generative AI sprint.
You mentioned that you’re working with Anthropic and Claude, but as I remember, you also worked with OpenAI. You were their first partner in Southeast Asia. Multiple partners is good. I mean, in some ways it would be easier to lean into one system, or not necessarily?
Look, you want to find the best solutions for these real-world challenges. We want to partner the best, and we want to find the best models for specific tasks. When we first started at the early days, I remember we did a change, we did an update on the app. And then there were a bunch of really angry drivers and angry customers who came up to us, scolding us. And we were wondering why. A few of them were visually impaired, and because we did an update, and they couldn’t use the accessibility option. Today we’ve been able to work with OpenAI to create, using multimodal LLMs, on voice specifically, such that they can speak so easily into it, whether you’re totally blind or not, and really solve your problem.
I know you must be thinking, “Hey, look, it’s not a big set of people who are visually impaired.” But you know what, Bob? It helps these individuals in such a real large-scale way, to them individually. As we think about just the visually impaired, we’re thinking about the elderly group, the silver generation. So again, we first started with a large impact for a small group of people. Now, with specialized training, it’s going to larger and larger groups, deployed to more and more geographical markets. There are scenarios we build on our own. There are scenarios we partner with the best, like OpenAI, like Anthropic. There are scenarios where we partner with the best universities around the world, but what we do believe is, generally, partnerships make us stronger.
A hearing set for Wednesday in federal court in Texas could provide families of the victims killed in two crashes of Boeing 737 Max jetliners with their final opportunity to demand that the company face criminal prosecution.U.S. District Chief Judge Reed O’Connor will hear arguments on a motion by the federal government to dismiss a felony fraud charge against Boeing in connection with the crashes that killed 346 people off the coast of Indonesia and in Ethiopia. In exchange, Boeing said it would pay or invest another $1.1 billion in fines, compensation for the crash victims’ families, and internal safety and quality measures.Prosecutors have said that Boeing deceived government regulators about a flight-control system that was later implicated in the fatal flights, which happened less than five months apart in 2018 and 2019.
The hearing in Fort Worth comes more than four years after the Justice Department first announced it had charged Boeing in January 2021 and reached a $2.5 billion settlement with the aircraft maker. That deal would have protected Boeing from criminal prosecution if it strengthened its ethics and legal compliance programs, but prosecutors revived the charge last year after they said Boeing had violated the agreement.Boeing decided to plead guilty instead of going to trial, but in December 2024, O’Connor rejected that plea agreement. O’Connor, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, cited concerns he had over how diversity policies both at the federal government and at Boeing could influence the selection of an independent monitor charged with overseeing the company’s promised reforms.Lawyers representing relatives of some of the victims who want a public trial and for the company to receive more severe financial punishment welcomed the judge’s decision. But the delay worked in Boeing’s favor.The judge’s refusal to accept the agreement meant the company was free to challenge the Justice Department’s rationale for charging Boeing as a corporation. It also meant prosecutors would have to secure a new deal for a guilty plea, and they spent six months renegotiating with Boeing.During that time, President Donald Trump returned to office and ordered an end to the diversity initiatives that gave O’Connor pause.By late May, the two sides struck a new deal that took both the criminal charge and Boeing’s guilty plea off the table. The Justice Department said it offered those terms in light of “significant changes” Boeing has made to its quality control and anti-fraud programs since last summer.O’Connor has invited some of the families to speak on Wednesday. That includes relatives traveling from France, Ireland and Canada who plan to ask the judge to deny the government’s request and appoint a special prosecutor to take over the case, according to lawyers for the families.Chris and Clariss Moore of Toronto, whose 24-year-old daughter, Danielle, died when a 737 Max crashed shortly after takeoff from Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, said in a statement that the pending agreement would allow Boeing to escape justice.“The safety of passengers will be held in the balance,” the statement said.Justice Department lawyers say the families of 110 crash victims either support resolving the case before it reaches trial or do not oppose the new deal. The Justice Department has also asked the judge to leave open the possibility of refiling the conspiracy charge if the company does not hold up its end of the deal over the next two years.The department said it thought that persuading a jury to punish the company with a criminal conviction would be risky, while the new deal ensures “meaningful accountability, delivers substantial and immediate public benefits, and brings finality to a difficult and complex case whose outcome would otherwise be uncertain.”While federal judges typically defer to the discretion of prosecutors in such situations, court approval is not automatic.The yearslong case centers around a software system that Boeing developed for the Max, which began flying in 2017.In the 2018 and 2019 crashes, that software pitched the nose of the plane down repeatedly based on faulty readings from a single sensor, and pilots flying then-new planes for Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines were unable to regain control. After the Ethiopia crash, the planes were grounded worldwide for 20 months while the company redesigned the software.Investigators found that Boeing did not inform key Federal Aviation Administration personnel about changes it had made to the software before regulators set pilot training requirements for the Max and certified the airliner for flight.Acting on the incomplete information, prosecutors said, the FAA approved minimal, computer-based training for Boeing 737 pilots, avoiding the need for flight simulators that would have made it more expensive for airlines to adopt the latest version of the jetliner.The initial 2021 settlement agreement was on the verge of expiring last year when a panel covering an unused emergency exit blew off a 737 Max during an Alaska Airlines flight over Oregon. No one was seriously injured, but it put Boeing’s safety record under renewed scrutiny.
Jamie Stengle and Rio Yamat, Associated Press
Consumers are more willing to accept price increases on specific products as a result of tariffsbut only within certain limits. Thats one upshot from the upcoming 2025 FutureBrand Index, which launches later this year and includes data shared exclusively with Fast Company.
President Donald Trumps tariffs are starting to make a mark on businesses and consumers, with Americans facing a cumulative increase in prices that will cost the average household some $2,700 in lost income, according to the Yale Budget Lab.
Some products will be worse hit than others: Clothing prices are expected to rise by 36% in the short term, while motor vehicle prices will rise some 13%, Yale predicted. And on a broad scale, experts have estimated that GDP could shrink by as much as 6% over the long-term as demand for goods and services dwindles.
Yet consumers may be more tolerant of price increases in some cases than they are in others, the FutureBrand Index found. In a survey of more than 3,000 professionals, it reported that a price increase of 20% appears to be the maximum before most consumers balk and look for cheaper alternatives.
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As far as we can judge, a maximum price increase of around 20%, driven by tariffs or changes in trade rules, is often acceptable when it is clearly explained and positioned within certain key factors, according to the report.
The 20% figure is a useful benchmark, but it’s crucial to recognize that, for humans, price is a feeling, said Jon Tipple, FutureBrands chief strategy officer. The perceived value, the brand’s reputation, and the public’s emotional connection all influence how that number is interpreted.
This means brands can exceed that threshold if they successfully reframe the narrative and enhance the overall experience, he added.
Should companies explain tariff price hikes? Probably
Digging deeper, how much more people are willing to pay varies substantially across industries.
For example, consumers are willing to accept a 25% increase in the cost of technology and software, but only a 20% hike in the price of food or alcohol before they consider shopping around.
Most people will tolerate a 22% rise in the cost of retail products (a category the index defines as a broad range of goods,) and a 21% increase in the automotive and manufactured parts categories.
Transparency and justification stand out in the index report as key to how consumers and businesses react to cost increases. If companies can justify hiking their prices, for example by making clear they are out of the companys control as in the case of tariffs, consumers tend to be more understanding.
That finding jibes with recent polling from Pew Research that found some 61% of respondents disapprove of the Trump administrations tariffsa sign that Americans do, by and large, understand that price increases are tied to external business factors.
In other words, consumers dont feel like businesses are simply trying to squeeze them purely for profit.
Critically, the index found that value preservation is essential; people are more willing to pay higher prices if quality, reliability, and service levels remain intact despite the trade-related challenges.
What this seems to suggest is that tariff-induced price increases are somewhat psychological. If businesses can successfully tie a cost hike to higher duties or other things beyond their control, then at least some customers will take it in stride.
The U.S. is the only country in the world where foreign tourism spending is set to decline in 2025 compared to last year: A recent report from the World Travel & Tourism Council predicted a drop of 8.2% from 2024, a clear indicator that the global appeal of the U.S. is slipping, according to the industry group, driven by a sense that the Trump administration is hostile to foreigners.
Visits from Germans and Danes are down by double digits, while Canadian visitors dropped 37% this July compared to last July.
That reality has led some in the travel business to get creative.
Enter ResortPass, a platform that allows anyone to experience all the perks of a luxury hotel without staying the night. It works with 2,000 hotel partners, including major U.S. chains from Kimpton and Hilton to the Ritz-Carlton, to offer amenities like pool access and spa passes to staycationers.
Hotels have realized they need to figure out ways to monetize other parts of the hotel, said CEO Michael Wolf.
The revenue that we send hotels is incredibly high margin, because there’s such low variable costs, he added.
The view from home
ResortPass takes a cut from each reservation. According to Wolf, the company has grown exponentially since he took the reins three years ago. And he said that its local dayguests or daycationers who are driving the most business: 87% of business in New York, 86% in the Bay Area, and 81% Los Angeles is from locals.
Thats because while more international travelers are staying away, more Americans are also staying put.
Forty-six percent of Americans planned a summer vacation this year, a steep drop from 53% last yearwith almost two-thirds stating its because they cant afford it.
Fervor for revenge travel, a post-pandemic trend where holidaymakers made up for lost time with ambitious trips, has faded. In turn, working Americans are unlikely to even take all their vacation days; some 78% do not use all of their paid time off.
Instead, consumers may be more drawn to indulge in short-term self-care, such as taking a day to rest and recharge, to lie by a pool or get a massage to help avoid burnout.
And if you already live within transit distance of the hotel, even better: For example, a New Yorker can hop on the subway and hit the rooftop pool at the William Vale in Brooklyn.
At the same time, hotel prices have surged in recent years; the average price of a New York City hotel room in September 2024 was $417, the highest monthly rate ever recorded.
And hotels are keeping room rates high despite the lack of guests; ResortPass allows these establishments to generate an untapped stream of revenue from parts of the property that are already catering to overnight guests.
Wolf says its akin to how airlines have (unpopularly) increased fees for amenities that were already present, such as add-on drip charges for seat selection or more legroom. The difference is [our] users love it, he says.
Neighbors have purchasing power
ResortPass has found that local day guests spend more during their brief staysat least double that of overnight guestsand tend to return to the property and recommend it to friends.
If youre a day guest, by definition the premise of your day is to come and spend all day enjoying that hotel, Wolf said.
Its helped vacation meccas like Las Vegas, he said, which saw tourism decline for a sixth consecutive month in July. Its one of ResortPasss best-growing markets, with hotels able to fill up underutilized cabanas and daybeds.
ResortPass is bullish about the future even if the post-Labor Day weather is too chilly for pia coladas by the pool. Fall merely brings a different set of opportunities for customers, Wolf said, like cozy spa days and saunas. There’s an extra level of serendipity, he said, because you didn’t even know you could do this thing.
The Walt Disney Co. will pay a $10 million fine to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit alleging it allowed personal data to be collected on kids under 13, violating federal law.The FTC said Tuesday Disney violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, which requires kid-oriented apps and websites to get parents’ consent before collecting personal information of children under 13.According to the complaint, Disney failed to properly label some videos that it uploaded to YouTube as “Made for Kids.” The mislabeling allowed Disney, through YouTube, to collect personal data from children under 13 viewing child-directed videos and use that data for targeted advertising to children, the FTC said. That’s because, since the videos weren’t labeled as being for kids, they included targeted advertising.Representatives for Disney did not immediately return a message for comment.Google, the parent company of YouTube, agreed to pay $170 million in a similar settlement in 2019.
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Japanese carmaker Toyota said on Wednesday it will invest 680 million euros ($792 million) on a new production line in the Czech Republic to make a battery electric car.The line will be built with a government incentive of up to 64 million euros ($75 million) to expand Toyota’s existing plant in Kolin, around 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of Prague, the Czech government and the company said in a joint statement.It will become the first Toyota plant to produce battery electric cars in Europe.Prime Minister Petr Fiala said the new line will create another 245 jobs at the factory that already employs 3,200 people.Toyota did not disclose details of when production would start or of the model.The world’s top automaker currently makes Aygo X and Yaris Hybrid models at the plant, which made over 225,000 cars last year.
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