The companies that see the most success with AI this year won’t be the ones with the most AI tools.
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The Iran war spills over into the U.S. economy: Inflation rises and growth slows.
The conflict with Iran has already put fresh stress on the U.S. economy, as companies report rising prices, fewer orders and a decline in employment.
Goldman Sachs resets recession risks for 2026
Goldman Sachs just bumped its U.S. recession probability to 30% from 25%, underscoring how quickly things are moving.Just weeks ago, the odds were closer to 20%, but now we’re seeing the risk being repriced in real time.For perspective, the bank isn’t talking about a specific trigger.Goldman points to a confluence of pressures, including geopolitical tensions, sluggish growth, and fading policy support, all hitting at once. Perhaps the most urgent catalyst is the oil shock linked to Middle East tensions. Higher oil prices feed into inflationary pressures while squeezing purchasing power. At the same time, the bank argues that, even before the oil shock, the U.S. economy was edging toward a tipping point.On top of that, the labor market is showing major signs of fatigue, while fiscal support that cushioned the economy previously is fading, as we see the impact of prior tax cuts and spending rolling off.It’s important to consider, though, that this isn’t an outright recession call as of yet. The bank still sees a 70% chance of avoiding one, backed by rate cuts in the back half of the year. But clearly, the narrative is moving from a soft landing to something much more fragile.
Goldman Sachs updates its recession outlook for 2026, signaling a notable shift in expectationsPhoto by Bloomberg on Getty Images
What the latest U.S. data says about growth, jobs, oil, and inflationGDP: U.S. real GDP grew at a sluggish 0.7% annualized in Q4 2025. Labor: February payrolls dropped by 92,000, while unemployment jumped to 4.5%. Oil: Brent climbed from nearly $71 at the beginning of the Iran war to nearly $101 at the time of writing, after recently touching $110. Inflation: February CPI ran at 2.4% year-over-year; the latest PCE, the Fed’s preferred gauge, was 2.8%, with core PCE at 3.1% in January.How oil shocks trigger inflation, slow growth, and raise recession riskAt its core, the macro story boils down to a couple of forces and how they react under duress.Goldman Sachs resets oil-price bets as war rages onHow Fed meeting impacts mortgage rates, housing marketIMF drops blunt warning on US economyThe Federal Reserve, which controls monetary policy, sets interest rates that determine how easy it is to borrow money. On the flip side, fiscal policy, driven by the U.S. government, effectively shapes spending and taxation to support economic growth.After the pandemic hit, both of these forces went into overdrive. Interest rates were cut to near zero while trillions in stimulus money flooded the economy, paving the way for a powerful rebound, but also planting seeds of sticky inflation.By 2022, the script flipped. The Fed was compelled to aggressively raise interest rates to cool the economy, while government support ended, leaving growth much more exposed.However, the latest oil shock makes things a lot trickier. Rising energy prices have effectively pushed inflation higher while slowing demand.Related: Gold’s biggest drop in decades hides a powerful tailwindThat creates a brutal policy trap: the Fed, which would usually slash rates to support growth, has its hands tied because it can’t afford to fuel inflation again. At the same time, fiscal policy is hampered by high deficits, constricting the government’s ability to step in. For context, the U.S. national debt is at a mind-boggling $39 trillion, as per the latest Treasury data. That leads to a much more fragile setup, where the traditional stabilizers of the economy have a lot less room to respond.Latest bank and economist calls on U.S. recession riskJPMorgan: Sees 35% recession odds, warning markets are still complacent over a potentially sustained oil shock weighing-down demand and growth.Bank of America: Argues that recession risks are underpriced, sounding the alarm that a prolonged conflict could trigger a broader slowdown in the global economy.Morgan Stanley: Delayed its first Fed rate-cut call to September (from June), saying that the second-round of oil shocks could weaken market activity and labor markets. Moody’s Analytics / Mark Zandi: The veteran economist reset his recession probability at 49%, warning it could easily cross 50% if oil prices remain elevated.EY-Parthenon / Gregory Daco: Sees 40% recession odds, with risks rising if geopolitical tensions continue to intensify.
Source: Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Reuters, JPMorgan Chase.
What’s really driving Goldman’s recession resetGoldman’s shift in recession odds isn’t about just a singular shock, but about multiple pressures converging at once. Related: Goldman Sachs sends blunt message on Nvidia stock after GTCIn fact, the bank argues that the U.S. economy was already sluggish before the Iran-led oil crisis, before the layered hit from energy, labor, and policy constraints. The obvious result is a far more fragile backdrop.Oil shock from Middle East tensions: The Strait of Hormuz disruptions have pushed Brent toward $100+, along with elevated upside risks. The bank warns that higher energy costs will continue to lift inflation, impacting businesses and consumers alike. Slowing economic momentum: The bank sees U.S. growth now cooling off to just 1.25%–1.75% in the second-half of 2026, a level close to “stall speed”.Labor market softening: Unemployment is forecasted to jump to 4.6%, with hiring already near breakeven levels.Fading fiscal support: The boost from previous tax cuts and government spending continues to fade, removing a major layer of support just as risks are rising.Collectively, Goldman’s message is that the economy is in a far less resilient position than it was just months ago.The recessions that defined modern U.S. markets1929–1933: The Great Depression, arguably the benchmark for economic collapse in U.S. history.1973–1975: Popularly known as the oil-shock recession, defined by stagflation, skyrocketing energy prices, and a painful slowdown.1980 and 1981–1982: A double-dip downturn, linked to Fed Chair Paul Volcker’s fight with inflation and elevated interest rates.2001: The famous dot-com bust recession, which, despite being milder, turned out to be a major market and business reset.2007–2009: The Great Recession, led by the housing crisis, banking stress, and financial panic.2020: The Covid-led recession, which was the briefest on record but turned out to be the steepest economic shock ever.
Source: NBER.
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The three disciplines separating AI agent demos from real-world deployment
Getting AI agents to perform reliably in production — not just in demos — is turning out to be harder than enterprises anticipated. Fragmented data, unclear workflows, and runaway escalation rates are slowing deployments across industries.“The technology itself often works well in demonstrations,” said Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst with Greyhound Research. “The challenge begins when it is asked to operate inside the complexity of a real organization.” Burley Kawasaki, who oversees agent deployment at Creatio, and team have developed a methodology built around three disciplines: data virtualization to work around data lake delays; agent dashboards and KPIs as a management layer; and tightly bounded use-case loops to drive toward high autonomy.In simpler use cases, Kawasaki says these practices have enabled agents to handle up to 80-90% of tasks on their own. With further tuning, he estimates they could support autonomous resolution in at least half of use cases, even in more complex deployments.“People have been experimenting a lot with proof of concepts, they’ve been putting a lot of tests out there,” Kawasaki told VentureBeat. “But now in 2026, we’re starting to focus on mission-critical workflows that drive either operational efficiencies or additional revenue.”Why agents keep failing in productionEnterprises are eager to adopt agentic AI in some form or another — often because they’re afraid to be left out, even before they even identify real-world tangible use cases — but run into significant bottlenecks around data architecture, integration, monitoring, security, and workflow design. The first obstacle almost always has to do with data, Gogia said. Enterprise information rarely exists in a neat or unified form; it is spread across SaaS platforms, apps, internal databases, and other data stores. Some are structured, some are not. But even when enterprises overcome the data retrieval problem, integration is a big challenge. Agents rely on APIs and automation hooks to interact with applications, but many enterprise systems were designed long before this kind of autonomous interaction was a reality, Gogia pointed out. This can result in incomplete or inconsistent APIs, and systems can respond unpredictably when accessed programmatically. Organizations also run into snags when they attempt to automate processes that were never formally defined, Gogia said. “Many business workflows depend on tacit knowledge,” he said. That is, employees know how to resolve exceptions they’ve seen before without explicit instructions — but, those missing rules and instructions become startlingly obvious when workflows are translated into automation logic.The tuning loopCreatio deploys agents in a “bounded scope with clear guardrails,” followed by an “explicit” tuning and validation phase, Kawasaki explained. Teams review initial outcomes, adjust as needed, then re-test until they’ve reached an acceptable level of accuracy. That loop typically follows this pattern: Design-time tuning (before go-live): Performance is improved through prompt engineering, context wrapping, role definitions, workflow design, and grounding in data and documents. Human-in-the-loop correction (during execution): Devs approve, edit, or resolve exceptions. In instances where humans have to intervene the most (escalation or approval), users establish stronger rules, provide more context, and update workflow steps; or, they’ll narrow tool access. Ongoing optimization (after go-live): Devs continue to monitor exception rates and outcomes, then tune repeatedly as needed, helping to improve accuracy and autonomy over time. Kawasaki’s team applies retrieval-augmented generation to ground agents in enterprise knowledge bases, CRM data, and other proprietary sources. Once agents are deployed in the wild, they are monitored with a dashboard providing performance analytics, conversion insights, and auditability. Essentially, agents are treated like digital workers. They have their own management layer with dashboards and KPIs.For instance, an onboarding agent will be incorporated as a standard dashboard interface providing agent monitoring and telemetry. This is part of the platform layer — orchestration, governance, security, workflow execution, monitoring, and UI embedding — that sits “above the LLM,” Kawasaki said.Users see a dashboard of agents in use and each of their processes, workflows, and executed results. They can “drill down” into an individual record (like a referral or renewal) that shows a step-by-step execution log and related communications to support traceability, debugging, and agent tweaking. The most common adjustments involve logic and incentives, business rules, prompt context, and tool access, Kawasaki said. The biggest issues that come up post-deployment: Exception handling volume can be high: Early spikes in edge cases often occur until guardrails and workflows are tuned. Data quality and completeness: Missing or inconsistent fields and documents can cause escalations; teams can identify which data to prioritize for grounding and which checks to automate.Auditability and trust: Regulated customers, particularly, require clear logs, approvals, role-based access control (RBAC), and audit trails.“We always explain that you have to allocate time to train agents,” Creatio’s CEO Katherine Kostereva told VentureBeat. “It doesn’t happen immediately when you switch on the agent, it needs time to understand fully, then the number of mistakes will decrease.” “Data readiness” doesn’t always require an overhaulWhen looking to deploy agents, “Is my data ready?,” is a common early question. Enterprises know data access is important, but can be turned off by a massive data consolidation project. But virtual connections can allow agents access to underlying systems and get around typical data lake/lakehouse/warehouse delays. Kawasaki’s team built a platform that integrates with data, and is now working on an approach that will pull data into a virtual object, process it, and use it like a standard object for UIs and workflows. This way, they don’t have to “persist or duplicate” large volumes of data in their database. This technique can be helpful in areas like banking, where transaction volumes are simply too large to copy into CRM, but are “still valuable for AI analysis and triggers,” Kawasaki said.Once integrations and virtual objects are established, teams can evaluate data completeness, consistency, and availability, and identify low-friction starting points (like document-heavy or unstructured workflows). Kawasaki emphasized the importance of “really using the data in the underlying systems, which tends to actually be the cleanest or the source of truth anyway.” Matching agents to the workThe best fit for autonomous (or near-autonomous) agents are high-volume workflows with “clear structure and controllable risk,” Kawasaki said. For instance, document intake and validation in onboarding or loan preparation, or standardized outreach like renewals and referrals.“Especially when you can link them to very specific processes inside an industry — that’s where you can really measure and deliver hard ROI,” he said. For instance, financial institutions are often siloed by nature. Commercial lending teams perform in their own environment, wealth management in another. But an autonomous agent can look across departments and separate data stores to identify, for instance, commercial customers who might be good candidates for wealth management or advisory services.“You think it would be an obvious opportunity, but no one is looking across all the silos,” Kawasaki said. Some banks that have applied agents to this very scenario have seen “benefits of millions of dollars of incremental revenue,” he claimed, without naming specific institutions. However, in other cases — particularly in regulated industries — longer-context agents are not only preferable, but necessary. For instance, in multi-step tasks like gathering evidence across systems, summarizing, comparing, drafting communications, and producing auditable rationales.“The agent isn’t giving you a response immediately,” Kawasaki said. “It may take hours, days, to complete full end-to-end tasks.” This requires orchestrated agentic execution rather than a “single giant prompt,” he said. This approach breaks work down into deterministic steps to be performed by sub-agents. Memory and context management can be maintained across various steps and time intervals. Grounding with RAG can help keep outputs tied to approved sources, and users have the ability to dictate expansion to file shares and other document repositories.This model typically doesn’t require custom retraining or a new foundation model. Whatever model enterprises use (GPT, Claude, Gemini), performance improves through prompts, role definitions, controlled tools, workflows, and data grounding, Kawasaki said. The feedback loop puts “extra emphasis” on intermediate checkpoints, he said. Humans review intermediate artifacts (such as summaries, extracted facts, or draft recommendations) and correct errors. Those can then be converted into better rules and retrieval sources, narrower tool scopes, and improved templates. “What is important for this style of autonomous agent, is you mix the best of both worlds: The dynamic reasoning of AI, with the control and power of true orchestration,” Kawasaki said. Ultimately, agents require coordinated changes across enterprise architecture, new orchestration frameworks, and explicit access controls, Gogia said. Agents must be assigned identities to restrict their privileges and keep them within bounds. Observability is critical; monitoring tools can record task completion rates, escalation events, system interactions, and error patterns. This kind of evaluation must be a permanent practice, and agents should be tested to see how they react when encountering new scenarios and unusual inputs. “The moment an AI system can take action, enterprises have to answer several questions that rarely appear during copilot deployments,” Gogia said. Such as: What systems is the agent allowed to access? What types of actions can it perform without approval? Which activities must always require a human decision? How will every action be recorded and reviewed?“Those [enterprises] that underestimate the challenge often find themselves stuck in demonstrations that look impressive but cannot survive real operational complexity,” Gogia said.
Award-winning beer brand forced to close taproom, no bankruptcy
High-quality craft breweries that have been recognized for their excellence are struggling to remain in business as they battle the craft beer apocalypse.The industry’s historic downturn, known as the Craft Beer Apocalypse, began in 2023 with 385 brewery closings and grew to 434 in 2025, according to the Brewers Association.Among the craft breweries to close down in 2026 was San Francisco’s Olfactory Brewing, which shut down in February.The brewery’s Proverbial Fork beer won a gold medal in the Great American Beer Festival‘s Mixed-Culture Brett Beer category in 2024.
True Anomaly Brewing Co.’s award-winning days will end as it closes down its business because of a highway project.Shutterstock
True Anomaly Brewing closes downAnother award-winning craft brewery, True Anomaly Brewing Co., is set to close down its brewery and taproom at 2012 Dallas St. in Houston on April 30, blaming an Interstate 45 expansion project that is displacing homes and businesses along its path, the company said on its Instagram page.”It is incredibly difficult to write this, but after an unforgettable run in East Downtown, the taproom will be closing its doors. Our final day will be April 30th,” True Anomaly said on Instagram.The message said the brewery’s business was closing, as plans for a second location did not move forward.Second location plans don’t develop”Over the past year, we found ourselves caught in the path of the I-45 expansion while also working to open a second location nearby,” the message said. “Construction delays and shifting timelines pushed the project further and further out.””We kept brewing and kept believing it would come together, but eventually the stars just stopped aligning,” the message continued. “We’ve got some weeks ahead of us, and we plan to make the most of them.”The Texas Department of Transportation began expanding and rerouting Interstate 45 in the downtown Houston area in late 2024 as part of a multi-billion-dollar project that will shift the freeway from the west side of downtown to the east side to align it with Interstate 69 and U.S. 59., Houston Public Media reported.Aerospace employees started companyTrue Anomaly was established in 2019 by four employees of NASA and the Johnson Space Center, who are former rocket scientists, space-suit developers, and mission managers.The fledgling entrepreneurs started honing their brewing craft in a garage with some brewing equipment and a lot of experimentation, according to the company’s website.Inspired by a shared fascination with science and outer space, the partners brewed beers, “just a little (or a lot) off the mean trajectory,” according to the company website. The craft brewery’s website lists 50 locations where cans of True Anomaly beer could be purchased, which include H.E.B. Markets, Whole Foods, and Total Wine.More closings:67-year-old furniture retailer liquidates, closes downKroger grocery chain rival closes locations in restructuring143-year-old grocery chain closes more locations, lays off dozensTrue Anomaly won a silver medal in 2025 for its Sea of Waves American Sour Ale at the Great American Beer Festival. The brewery also won a silver medal for its Flanders Redux at the Brewers Association’s World Beer Cup competition. It was named 2023 and 2024 Brewery of the Year and has won several other medals at the Texas Craft Brewers Cup.True Anomaly’s Year-Round BeersScout Mexican Style LagerSmall Giant Grisette Little SaisonContact Light American SaisonRocket Park Pale AleSky Lab American IPATrainer Session Hazy IPABen’s House IPA West Coast IPAGo Flight Hazy IPA Related: 54-year-old Home Depot rival closes store, no bankruptcy
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Chase Sapphire now pays you back for overpriced hotel bookings
If you hold a Chase Sapphire Reserve card, you already know the frustration of booking hotels through Chase Travel. You search for a room, compare it to what the hotel charges directly, and realize you’re paying significantly more through the portal.Sometimes the markup is $50 a night, sometimes $70, and sometimes it’s enough to send you booking elsewhere. For a card with a $795 annual fee, it can feel at odds with the premium experience you expect from Chase.That routine may finally be changing, and the fix Chase just introduced is simpler than you’d expect. Its beta launch could reshape how millions of Sapphire cardholders think about booking hotels through Chase Travel going forward.Chase’s new price match guarantee targets a longstanding portal pricing problemChase has launched a price match guarantee for prepaid hotel bookings made through its travel portal, as NerdWallet first reported on March 18, 2026. The feature refunds you the difference if you find the same hotel room at a lower publicly available price on another booking site.Right now, the feature is in beta and limited to a select group of Sapphire Reserve for Business cardholders, Chase confirmed directly to NerdWallet. The company said it plans to extend the benefit to the consumer Sapphire Reserve card, though no specific timeline has been announced.Chase’s own terms and conditions also list the J.P. Morgan Reserve as an eligible card for the price match benefit. That detail suggests this could eventually become a standard benefit across Chase’s premium card lineup, rather than a short-lived experiment.How the price match claim process works for you as a cardholderThe mechanics are straightforward, but the rules are specific enough that you need to understand them before submitting any claim. You have to book a prepaid hotel stay through Chase Travel using an eligible card at least 24 hours before your check-in time.After booking, you have a 24-hour window to submit a claim if you spot a lower rate on another publicly accessible booking site for the same room. Your claim requires a screenshot of the lower rate, a direct link to the listing, and a clearly visible competing price.Related: Ford’s new Visa card earns up to 16x points on Ford purchasesYour claim must meet all of these specific requirements.The competing rate must be for the exact same hotel, room type, bed type, dates, and number of guests as your Chase Travel booking.The cancellation policy on the competing rate must match your Chase Travel reservation’s cancellation policy exactly, with no differences in deadlines.The nightly rate difference between the Chase price and the competing price must exceed $5 to qualify for a refund.The competing rate must be listed in U.S. dollars and publicly available to anyone browsing that site without special memberships or login requirements.If Chase approves your claim, it will refund the price difference to your original payment method within one to two billing cycles. Early reports from Reddit’s r/ChaseSapphire community suggest some claims have been approved within roughly 11 hours of submission, according to reporting by Upgraded Points.Several common hotel rate types are excluded from the price match programThe fine print carves out important exceptions you should understand before assuming every cheaper rate you find online will qualify for a Chase refund.The following rate types will not qualify for Chase’s price match guarantee.Loyalty or rewards member rates from programs like Hilton Honors, Marriott Bonvoy, or IHG One Rewards do not count as publicly available rates.Corporate negotiated rates, AAA discounts, government or military rates, senior citizen pricing, and coupon-based deals are all ineligible for price matching.Rates found through other credit card travel portals, such as the American Express travel portal, do not qualify as competing, publicly available prices.Vacation packages bundling hotel stays with flights or car rentals are excluded, along with any promotional or mobile-only special deals.Opaque booking sites where the hotel name is only revealed after payment, such as certain Hotwire or Priceline listings, do not qualify.One practical issue the travel blog Frequent Miler flagged deserves your close attention before you file any claims. Chase Travel sometimes offers a slightly more generous cancellation policy than what the hotel offers directly on its own booking site.Even a one-day difference in cancellation deadlines could technically disqualify your claim because the refund policies would not be an exact match. Check both cancellation policies carefully before assuming your claim will be straightforward enough to get approved quickly.
Understanding the rules behind price matching is key to maximizing savings and avoiding claim rejections on your bookings.PeopleImages/Shutterstock
Sapphire Reserve cardholders paying $795 a year deserve portal pricingThe Chase Sapphire Reserve now carries a $795 annual fee after Chase raised it from $550 in June 2025, representing a 45% increase. That price hike came with a bundle of new benefits, including a $500 annual credit for stays at The Edit hotel collection.But the $500 Edit credit has a catch that made many cardholders rightfully skeptical about its real-world value. NerdWallet reported that hotel rooms booked through The Edit on Chase Travel were sometimes hundreds of dollars more expensive than the same room booked directly.If you’re overpaying $200 on a two-night stay just to use a $250 credit, the math barely works in your favor. The price match guarantee directly addresses this concern by giving you recourse when Chase Travel’s pricing exceeds what the broader market offers.Related: Robinhood enters premium credit card fray with new Platinum CardSapphire Reserve cardholders also earn 8x Ultimate Rewards points per dollar on purchases through Chase Travel, including stays at Edit properties, according to Chase. That elevated earning rate is a major incentive to book through the portal rather than directly with the hotel.With the price match guarantee in place, you can now capture those 8x points on your hotel spending and still have a safety net. If the portal overcharges you, you have a defined process to get that money back instead of simply absorbing the premium.How Chase’s price match compares to Capital One’s price protection programChase is not the first major card issuer to offer price protection on bookings made through a travel portal. Capital One Travel has provided both a price-match guarantee and automatic price-drop protection to eligible cardholders for several years now.Capital One’s system lets you submit a claim within 24 hours if you find a lower price on another platform for a flight, hotel, or rental car. More Airlines:American Air launching 15 new summer routes between U.S. citiesLow-cost airline will launch new flight to South Korea from USAmerican Airlines joins the Spirit Airlines bankruptcy caseFor flights specifically, Capital One also monitors your fare automatically for 10 days after booking, Capital One’s help center confirms. If the price drops, you receive a travel credit of up to $50 without having to do anything yourself.Key differences between the Chase and Capital One price protection programs.Chase’s price match currently covers only prepaid hotel bookings, while Capital One’s program extends to flights, hotels, and rental cars.Chase refunds the price difference to your original payment method in cash or points, while Capital One issues refunds as travel credits instead.Capital One’s automatic flight price-drop monitoring has no equivalent in Chase’s program, which requires you to find lower rates manually.Chase’s program is currently limited to Sapphire Reserve cardholders only, while Capital One’s portal is accessible to all Capital One rewards cardholders.For hotel bookings specifically, Chase’s refund structure is more useful because you get the exact price difference credited to your statement. Capital One’s travel credit refund means you have to book more travel to use what you’re owed.How to position yourself to use the price match guarantee Even though the feature is still in limited beta, you can start preparing now so you’re ready to act the moment Chase expands access. These steps will help you maximize your chances of a successful price match claim.Steps to maximize your chances of getting a successful price match claim approvedBefore booking through Chase Travel, check rates on Expedia, Booking.com, Priceline, and the hotel’s direct website so you have clear comparison data ready before committing to the portal rate.Screenshot the lowest publicly available rate immediately, including the room type, dates, number of guests, and full cancellation policy details.Book your room through Chase Travel within 24 hours of gathering those comparison rates so your evidence stays fresh and clearly time-stamped.Submit your price match claim as soon as possible after booking, since the 24-hour window starts the moment you complete your Chase Travel reservation.Double-check that cancellation policies match exactly, because even small differences in refund deadlines could disqualify your claim from being approved.If you currently hold the Sapphire Reserve for Business card and see the price match option in your portal, test it now on your next booking. Doctor of Credit reports that the feature also works on The Edit hotel collection bookings, which makes it especially useful for maximizing the $500 annual credit.Travel portal competition is heating up, and your booking experience should improveFor years, the biggest criticism of credit card travel portals was straightforward and hard to argue with. You earned bonus points for booking through them, but you regularly paid more for the same room or flight than you would have booking directly.Chase’s entry into hotel price matching signals that issuers are recognizing this problem and competing more seriously on pricing. Thrifty Traveler notes that this new feature removes one of the biggest hurdles travelers face when deciding whether to book hotels through Chase Travel or go direct.Whether you hold a Sapphire Reserve, a Sapphire Preferred, or a competitor’s travel card, this kind of competition among portals benefits you directly. More price protections, more transparent pricing, and more accountability put real money back in your pocket over the long term.Related: Delta Air Lines made $8.2 billion from your credit card last year
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