Gen Z is going to rule the business world sooner than...
Luke Lintz was at the gym in 2016 when his headphone wires got in the way of his bench press. It wasn't the first time it had happened, and the 16-year-old had had enough. At the time, wireless headphones were just emerging, and Lintz couldn't find many on the market in North America. He decided…
Investors got rich looting needy hospitals. Patients paid the price.
In community after community, the hospitals keep closing. In 2018, it was Northside Regional Medical Center in Youngstown, Ohio.In 2019, it was Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling, West Virginia, along with East Ohio Regional Hospital across the river in Martins Ferry, Ohio. That November, St. Luke's Medical Center, which had treated patients in Phoenix…
The rise of the job-search bots
In the fall of 2020, I found myself in unfamiliar territory: I was looking for a new job. In theory, it was something I should have known a lot about as an economics reporter. But in practice, I was lost. Because I had stumbled into a great job right out of college, and stayed with…
America isn’t building enough homes. A new map may fix that.
Depending on who's doing the estimating, America is short anywhere from 2 million to 6 million homes. If you've tried to buy or rent a place in the past year, or you know anyone who has, then you didn't need me to tell you that. Hardly anything's on the market, and none of us can…
How flying taxis could go mainstream
This article is part of "5G and Connectivity Playbook," a series exploring some of our time's most important tech innovations.Within 10 years, you might be stuck in traffic on the way to the airport — surrounded by a cacophony of horns and motors — choosing whether to roll up your window to prevent the smell…
He was America’s flashiest watch dealer. Then the feds caught up...
Just after dark, the most wanted man on Reddit slipped into his secret lair: a storage locker behind a Gold's Gym in Venice, California. "I've got another storage unit full of merch," Anthony Farrer told me as I followed him inside. "I still have a ton of followers."Farrer is better known as the Timepiece Gentleman,…
He called himself the Timepiece Gentlemen. Now he’s facing hard time.
Just after dark, the most wanted man on Reddit slipped into his secret lair: a storage locker behind a Gold's Gym in Venice, California. "I've got another storage unit full of merch," Anthony Farrer told me as I followed him inside. "I still have a ton of followers."Farrer is better known as the Timepiece Gentleman,…
Gen Z and millennials should be thanking boomers, not bashing them
Nostalgia might be one of the most powerful and enduring human emotions. Civilizations have always looked to a golden age in the past when times were better and people were nobler. Even the Romans, throughout their long period of dominance and empire, routinely criticized their current state as decadent and weak, longing for the strength…
Transforming Business
For the past four years, Business Insider's groundbreaking Transforming Business package has showcased the leaders reshaping the face of industry. In the past, our annual list of the 100 People Transforming Business has highlighted changemakers, visionaries, and rising stars.This year, for its fifth anniversary, Transforming Business is taking a new shape: We're diving deep into…
An anti-abortion group promised women money to carry their pregnancy to...
Tara couldn't afford to keep the baby.It was fall 2021, and she and her husband were "totally broke and really struggling," she said.They were staying at Tara's mother-in-law's home in Texas, sleeping with their kids in a converted garage with no air conditioning or heat. They could barely buy formula for their 3-month-old or food…
