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Eleanor Pringle

Eleanor Pringle is an award-winning senior reporter at Fortune covering news, the economy, and personal finance. Eleanor previously worked as a business correspondent and news editor in regional news in the U.K. She completed her journalism training with the Press Association after earning a degree from the University of East Anglia.

Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as "CZ", founder of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange

Security experts are already wondering if North Korea is behind the $6.3 billion Binance heist

By Eleanor PringleOctober 30, 2026

Kevin Warsh, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, during a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026.

The Fed’s decision to hold interest rates steady helps Warsh deny Tehran a say over monetary policy

By Eleanor PringleOctober 29, 2026

Over the next decade, the U.S. Treasury will spend $20 trillion in interest on the national debt—$200 billion a month by 2036

Over the next decade, the U.S. Treasury will spend $20 trillion in interest on the national debt—$200 billion a month by 2036

By Eleanor PringleOctober 28, 2026

Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, left, Kevin Warsh, governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve, center, and Donald Kohn, vice chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, talk outside the Jackson Lake Lodge before the opening session of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City annual symposium near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, U.S., on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010.

Don Kohn’s infamous ‘death march’ hikes were referenced in Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech—now the Fed veteran is weighing the chairman’s path ahead

By Eleanor PringleOctober 28, 2026

Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) looks to U.S. President Donald Trump as they descend the grand staircase before a state dinner in the East Room of the White House on September 24, 2026 in Washington, DC.

Trump said China was headed for ‘big trouble.’ Yet its economy is growing faster than the U.S., and its deficits are moving in the right direction

By Eleanor PringleOctober 26, 2026

Michael Burry attends "The Big Short" New York screening Ziegfeld Theater on November 23, 2015 in New York City.

Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ was asked to give advice to Gen Z: ‘Buy half the house you can afford,’ and ‘If it flies or floats, rent it’

By Eleanor PringleOctober 23, 2026

Gold Reserves at the Banque de France (Photo by Pierre Perrin/Sygma via Getty Images)

Central banks around the world are quietly stockpiling four times as much gold as usual and are moving it out of the U.S.

By Eleanor PringleOctober 22, 2026

Ken Griffin, chief executive officer of Citadel Advisors LLC, during the Citadel Securities conference in New York, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026.

America’s national debt plan is ‘clearly not in order,’ says Ken Griffin. He believes part of the problem is Europeans who ‘don’t want to go to work’

By Eleanor PringleOctober 21, 2026

Ken Griffin, chief executive officer of Citadel Advisors LLC, during the Citadel Securities conference in New York, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026.

Ken Griffin says Trump’s plan for America First was always doomed to fail: ‘Most people don’t want to live that dream’

By Eleanor PringleOctober 21, 2026

No wonder the White House wants Warsh to cut: A 1% Fed rate hike costs the Treasury an extra $95 billion a year in national debt interest

No wonder the White House wants Warsh to cut: A 1% Fed rate hike costs the Treasury an extra $95 billion a year in national debt interest

By Eleanor PringleOctober 20, 2026

A view of a bus shelter at 18th and K St's NW where a poster and electronic billboard displays the current U.S. National debt per person and as a nation at 40 Trillion dollars on August 30, 2026 in Washington, DC.

The U.S. national debt is approaching the point where bond traders see ‘mounting risk’ of a ‘vicious cycle,’ Moody’s top economist says

By Eleanor PringleOctober 19, 2026

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh speaks during a news conference following Federal Open Market Committee meetings at Federal Reserve Headquarters on September 16, 2026 in Washington, DC.

Kevin Warsh’s Fed has a rent problem: Higher rates could fuel a ‘doom loop’ in housing, top economist warns

By Eleanor PringleOctober 5, 2026

U.S. President Donald Trump listens to a reporters question in the Oval Office at the White House on September 28, 2026 in Washington, DC.

Trump just soft-launched higher inflation as the new solution for rebalancing the $40 trillion U.S. national debt

By Eleanor PringleOctober 2, 2026

An employee stands behind a counter at a Starbucks coffee shop in Seoul on May 19, 2026.

8 in 10 Gen Z and millennials have two jobs to make ends meet, Goldman Sachs finds, as the affordability crisis ‘crowds out’ any retirement hopes

By Eleanor PringleOctober 1, 2026

U.S. added 90,000 jobs last month, says ADP—including in manufacturing and construction, where trade bosses say six-figure jobs are sitting empty

U.S. added 90,000 jobs last month, says ADP—including in manufacturing and construction, where trade bosses say six-figure jobs are sitting empty

By Eleanor PringleOctober 1, 2026

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