Category: Economics/Class Relations

Airbnbye bye

November 4, 2023 • 5 min read with Jordan Parker Erb Howdy, readers. If you’ve used Airbnb in the last decade, chances are you’ve had at least one less-than-pleasant experience. Hopefully, yours wasn’t as bad as this customer who said a host dumped all their belongings on the […]

SBF goes down

November 3, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Happy Friday! Start your day off with this delightful story from Katie Notopoulos — a new addition to Insider — poking fun at how X CEO Linda Yaccarino “tweets like your aunt texts.”   In today’s big story, […]

Universal basic income is working

INSIDE SCOOP Chelsea Jia Feng/Insider Universal basic income is working — even in red states All across America, the evidence is overwhelming: Giving people free cash just makes sense. READ NOW Insider Today Newsletter Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to […]

Home buyers on the brink

Today’s best articles Is Eric Adams’ growing Turkish scandal a distraction or disaster? What the Realtor lawsuit verdict means for home buyers Advertisement by Hims Myth: Erectile Dysfunction only affects older men. Learn more. Birds no longer named after humans to eliminate racist links Sam Bankman-Fried guilty: where […]

The death of downtowns

October 31, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Happy Halloween! Here are the best Halloween costumes celebrity couples have worn this year if you still need some last-minute inspiration.   In today’s big story, we’re looking at the behind-the-scenes player that’s partly responsible for keeping all […]

The boomer market boon

October 30, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Welcome back. If you still haven’t figured out a Halloween costume, try one of these celebrity-inspired ones that you can easily recreate. In today’s big story, we’re looking at why baby boomers might be your best bet toward […]

EV breaking point

October 29, 2023 • 4 min read with Matt Turner Hello! Welcome back to Insider Today’s Sunday edition, a roundup of the week’s top stories. I’m Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. On the agenda today: Carta’s employees describe a culture of fealty to […]

Don’t Believe the GDP Hype

Also, a content poll and some housekeeping SimulationCommander Oct 27, 2023 While drinking my morning coffee and catching up on goings-on that I missed overnight, I came across this recent video from Tucker Carlson, which is well worth 13 minutes of your free time: There’s a lot of […]

Judging an AI career coach

October 28, 2023 • 5 min read with Diamond Naga Siu Happy weekend, buds. Sometimes, I think about how people who marry rich have found the ultimate cheat code. But TikTok star Dixie D’Amelio is being labeled out of touch for saying her “biggest goal professionally is probably […]

The 100 Fastest-Growing Companies

Saturday, October 28, 2023 Meghan Malas Data Journalist Two years ago, a third of the top 100 fastest-growing companies in the world were from the financial sector. But now, on the 38th annual Fortune 100 Fastest-Growing Companies ranking, it appears the sector’s reign is over with only nine […]

CEO’s naughty texts gone wrong

INSIDE SCOOP Matt Winkelmeyer / Stringer/ Getty, 5nikolas5/Getty Ljupco/Getty, Tyler Le/Insider AMC’s CEO thought he was texting naughty photos to a former ballerina fling. Then everything went haywire. A monthslong blackmail attempt for hundreds of thousands of dollars targeted AMC’s CEO Adam Aron. He stood his ground. READ […]

Bankruptcy under scrutiny

October 26, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Good morning. The police ordered residents of Lewiston, Maine, to shelter in place Wednesday night as a shooting unfolded. At least 22 people were killed, per CNN. The gunman is still at large.   In today’s big story, we’re looking […]

Startup workers on edge

October 25, 2023, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Halfway to the weekend! Don’t sweat it if you’re fed up trying to find the one. Users of the dating app Tinder can now let friends and family recommend potential matches, meaning you can blame them for […]

How They Sell Inflation

By Peter St Onge, Money Metals Exchange A key justification of the Fed – of Keynesian central banking – is that the way to make an economy grow is to print money. This is the “Philips Curve” – a tool that claims a trade-off between unemployment and inflation. […]

Fallout from Treasury crash

October 24, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Hello! If you’re a fan of celebrity gossip, you’re in luck. The divorce playbook for celebs has changed, and we can all expect more leaks. In today’s big story, we’re looking at how the meltdown in Treasurys is […]

You should buy a house now

October 23, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Welcome back! If you’re feeling bummed about not having a doomsday bunker like the ultra-rich, don’t worry. OpenAI’s Sam Altman joked they won’t really matter if there is an AI apocalypse. In today’s big story, we’re looking at […]

Microsoft salaries revealed

October 22, 2023 • 4 min read with Matt Turner Hello! Welcome back to Insider Today’s Sunday edition, a roundup of the week’s top stories. I’m Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. On the agenda today: Leaked Microsoft guidelines shed light on how much […]

Debunking Gen Z at work

October 21, 2023 • 5 min read with Diamond Naga Siu Welcome to Saturday, friends. Apologies if you live in Mississippi, Louisiana, or New Mexico — a new report found they’re among the most stressed states in the US. Hopefully, you get some time to relax this weekend.   In […]

Elon issues a warning

October 20, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Happy Friday! There’s trying to get out of a restaurant bill. And then there’s faking a heart attack 20 different times to avoid the check. In today’s big story, we’re looking at why Elon Musk’s concerns about the economy could echo a wider […]

Peter Thiel’s FBI secret

View in browser Subscribe INVESTIGATION John Lamparski/Getty Images; Rebecca Zisser/Insider Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel was an FBI informant In 2021, Thiel, a top tech investor and Trump megadonor, began a secret life as a confidential FBI informant. READ NOW Insider Today Newsletter Get the inside scoop on […]

Boomer inheritance illusion

October 18, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Good morning. US President Joe Biden is visiting Israel today. He had been due to also travel to Jordan to hold talks with Palestinian, Jordanian, and Egyptian leaders. However, the summit was canceled late on Tuesday following an […]