Why America hasn't been able to put an end to sky-high prices

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy
An American flag overlapped with a price tag
The persistence of inflation caught economists, analysts, and, most importantly, members of the Federal Reserve by surprise.

Tyler Le/BI

What a difference three months makes.

The ingenious way your credit card company is making your life easier

Tech Insider : Travel, Travel
Golden credit card tapping a blue terminal with emojis (money bag, green heart, exclamation points, and floating money) rotating on screen
Banks and credit-card companies are getting better at discerning which payments are fraudulent and which are legit.

Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

A Trump voter proved the MyPillow Guy wrong. Now he wants his $5 million.

Tech Insider : Politics
He proved the My Pillow Guy wrong about election fraud and won $5 million.
"Some people believe the world's out to get them because they think they are doing everything rationally but the world is not acting rationally in response," says Bob Zeidman. "That's the way Lindell is."

Jared Bartman for BI

Corporate America got woke. Now it's having second thoughts.

Tech Insider : Economy
Businessman in suit gesturing 'shhh', with a background collage featuring action protests and the 'Woke' definition

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

My journey into the dark heart of modern chess

Tech Insider
A man standing in the shadow of a giant chess piece

Nicolás Ortega for BI

There is a singular misery to trying your very best, after months of training, only to be crushed by a 6-year-old.

Want to sell your home? Get ready for disappointment.

Tech Insider : Economy
A house for sale melting in the summer sun
Gone are the days of throwing up a for-sale sign and waiting for the feeding frenzy to begin. Home sellers are about to get a rude awakening.

Deliormanli/Getty, Olivier Verriest/Getty, Andrei Akushevich/Getty, Tyler Le/BI

Veteran analysts say the world's biggest private-equity firm could be in big trouble

Tech Insider
Hand reaching to pull a card labeled 'Blackstone' from a house of cards

Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

The most hated workplace software on the planet

Tech Insider
Hands aggressively pointing at a Workday App, with exclamation marks emanating from the app
"Getting someone onboarded using Workday is like trying to get water from your sink to your stove using a colander," said one director at a startup.

Workday; Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

Wall Street big shots may be forced to cancel their summer vacations

Tech Insider : Economy
Photo illustration of the Wall Street Bull with a suitcase, plane, laptop and palm trees.
Wall Street's fantasies of decamping to the Hamptons for the summer have been shattered by higher inflation and stock market volatility.

Adobe Firefly; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BI

The Goldman prodigy behind Silicon Valley's glorious city of the future

Tech Insider
Jan Sramek standing in wide field of grass with powerlines in the and a wooden shed in the back
Jan Sramek believes the solution to the housing crisis facing Silicon Valley is to build a new city from scratch  — and that he's the guy to get it done.

Christie Hemm Klok for BI

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