The stock market is entering a prolonged period of chaos — and that's a good thing
Wall Street is worried about a recession, which means investors are paying closer attention to what actually matters in the stock market.
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What Maya Rudolph's impression reveals about Kamala Harris
A linguist wanted to understand the vice president's racial identity. So she studied the SNL comedian.
America is missing a golden opportunity to boost the job market
Raising the minimum wage could be a win-win-win for the economy, workers, and even businesses. So what's stopping Washington?
Gen Z loves the gym. That's a big problem for gyms.
Gen Zers are crowding gyms with their love of weightlifting and hanging out. America's gyms aren't ready for the swolest generation.
America just got a nasty wakeup call about the job market
Hang on to your job — we may be headed for a wave of layoffs.
My insurance company spied on my house from the sky. Then the real nightmare began.
My journey into the surreal, infuriating future of homeowners insurance.
Welcome to the tech industry's divorced dad era
Big Tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon are clinging to a bygone era, failing to innovate, and letting down their customers.
The Oppenheimer of AI
Michal Kosinski is pushing the boundaries of what artificial intelligence can do — and it terrifies him
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The secret to happiness: embrace the joy of being average
In the age where you're supposed to optimize everything, maybe it's fine to just be fine.
American business has a gerontocracy problem
Joe Biden stepped aside. A lot of aging CEOs should do the same.
Meet the 21-year-old Harvard dropout behind Friend, the creepy new AI necklace
In a no-holds-barred interview, Avi Schiffmann explains why he created Friend, the AI companion everyone is hating on.
It's official: Legalized sports betting is destroying young men's financial futures
From huge debts to repossessed cars, a new study shows that legalized sports gambling is bankrupting a generation.
Millennials were raised by the internet. Now their internet parents are gone.
I'm only 28 and my favorite childhood websites have already disappeared.
'Male comments are completely meaningless': Online reviews have a massive gender divide
New research shows that drug reviews from women can predict a serious problem. On the flip side, men's comments are "completely meaningless."
Starbucks just reinvented the way it runs its cafés
The world's largest coffeehouse chain is struggling. Can Starbucks find a way to make coffee fun again?
Tech elites hate the media. So they're taking a page from Fox News.
Inside the tech industry's 'broletariat revolution' against the media.
Gen Z strikes back
Companies reneged on their job offers. Now college students are getting even.
The super selfish reason why Elon Musk is all in on Trump
Elon Musk and Donald Trump are both dedicated to law and order — so long as they write the laws and make orders.
Japan's one weird trick to reverse population collapse
Hear me out: The government could save your love life.
Credit card rewards are turning us into jerks
The battle to rack up credit-card rewards is turning friends against each other.
The obscure building code that's ruining America's apartments
An obscure building code is ruining apartments and stopping new ones from getting built. The answer? Fewer stairs.
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When it comes to shopping, the ultimate status symbol is IRL
E-commerce has gobbled up everything in retail, but in the luxury space, consumers still prefer shopping in real life and not online.
'Emotional blackmail': How Duolingo manipulates its 31 million users
Duolingo's owl mascot constantly rags on users. It's a risky marketing strategy, but Gen Z loves it.
Why Marc Andreessen is wrong to support Trump, according to Marc Andreessen
The phony Trumpism of Big Tech
Insider Today: A historic outage
In Sunday's edition of Insider Today, we're talking about a historic IT outage, and the big business of selling men's insecurities.
They used to rule the stock market like gods. Now their days of domination are over.
Big-name hedge fund managers used to rule the stock market like gods. Now their days of domination are over.
Why Taylor Swift keeps blasting fans with never-ending albums
From Taylor Swift to Beyoncé, albums are getting longer and messier. Blame Big Tech.
Online health providers are preying on young men's worst fears
Telehealth companies like Hims and Ro are making big money by preying on young men's insecurities and fears.
Why your friendly local landlord is suddenly acting like a big-time robber baron
Your kindly small-time landlord, lured by the promise of greater efficiency and fatter profits, is about to get a lot more cutthroat
Gen Z's love affair with tech jobs is over
A new survey reveals the 100 companies where high school students most want to work
Disney has a big problem. It's running out of kids.
Children used to grow up watching Mickey Mouse on The Disney Channel. Now they're all on YouTube.
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America is on the brink of an unemployment fiasco
The number of unemployed Americans keeps rising. To keep the US job market from getting worse, the Fed needs to hurry up and cut interest rates.
The exhausting new shopping trend that's breaking all of our brains
Between inflation and dynamic prices, American consumers are tired of not knowing what anything costs.
Behind the crazy rise of Zillow Gone Wild
How the Instagram account Zillow Gone Wild sparked an obsession with everything from rainbow driveways to peacock mosaics.
The scary new ways you're about to get overcharged for everything
Retailers have figured out how to set prices based on your age, mood, and sexual orientation.
It's official: McDonald's should stick to unhealthy food
The fast food chain's experiment with salads and meatless burgers was a dumb move.
America's plague of tyrannical homeowners
Florida is trying to crush the local dictators ruining homeowners' lives. The rest of America should follow suit.
Why Gen Zers aren't leaving the nest
Young people are living at home and relying on their parents for money well into their 20s. Their parents aren't happy about it.
One of the pandemic's biggest booms has finally gone bust
What see-saw prices for wood tell us about America's economic future.
America's favorite summer pastime is dying
Pools across the country have been closed for years. Lifeguards are becoming an endangered species.
America has a serious ugly home problem
The nagging discontent with the look of new homes reveals big problems with how they're built — and even larger flaws in the American dream itself.
The long, strange decline of one of America's most influential brands
Chicken Soup for the Soul was almost as big as the Bible. Then it lost its way.
It's suddenly a whole lot harder to get a promotion
Hoping to get promoted this year? Don't bet on it.
The shadowy new way employees are cheating their way to the top
Across the globe, a wave of workers are secretly outsourcing parts or all of their jobs.
I wondered why Americans pay so much for dumb stuff. So I asked a $200-an-hour psychic.
To set their prices as high as possible, psychics rely on good old supply and demand — plus a few extra marketing tricks, both mystical and mundane.
Job interviews are about to get a whole lot more stressful
Quarterbacks take this test to get into the NFL. You might have to take it to get your next job.
Work friends are over and maybe that's actually fine
With the rise of remote work, fewer people have friends at their jobs. That may actually be a good thing.
America's crisis of meaningless work
It's not the pay or the perks causing American workers to disengage. It's the lack of purpose.
Google studied Gen Z. What they found is alarming.
A new study reveals how Gen Zers behave in their natural habitat: the internet
The latest sign of America's broken work culture: 'quiet vacationing'
Workers are "quiet vacationing," by going on trips without actually taking time off. It's another sign that America's work culture is truly broken.