How a single hard-charging CEO helped the US dollar take over the world

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
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By building a global bank, Citibank helped the US dollar become dominant.

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Gen Z is giving up on college

Tech Insider : Economy
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In the wake of the pandemic and economic uncertainty, Gen Z is questioning whether college is worth it.

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As Hawaii mourns its dead, 'disaster vultures' are swooping in to make a quick buck

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A house on fire being circled by vultures while money falls from the sky
Disaster vultures are investors who take advantage of people who lost their homes to natural disasters in order to turn a profit.

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As Hawaii mourns its dead, investors are swooping in to make a quick buck

A new study makes it official: Women are always the wrong age for employers

Tech Insider : Economy
Women of different ages pop in and out of holes in a whack-a-mole scenario. A big turquoise mallet comes and hits some of the women on the head.
Women in every age bracket reported facing workplace age discrimination.

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The looming crisis that's going to crush homeowners from coast to coast

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A comic strip of a house inside of a burning house unbothered
As the risk of wildfires and storms grows, owning a home is getting riskier — and it's showing up in the insurance market.

Tyler Le/Insider

Cinda Larimer was delivering newspapers on a cool November morning in Paradise, California, when she noticed something softly float down from the sky: ash.

From concert tickets to hotel reservations, everything you want to do now requires an infuriating app

Tech Insider : Economy
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More people are wanting to cut back on their smartphone use. But we've made it nearly impossible to leave our phones behind.

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From concert tickets to hotel reservations, everything you want to do now requires an infuriating app

AI is going to eliminate way more jobs than anyone realizes

Tech Insider : Economy
A glitchy liquid tidal wave hurls towards a group of gray cubicles with concerned workers looking upon the looming threat. The background of the scene is a glitchy bright green.
The AI revolution is about the crash into the global economy and upend millions of jobs.

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A tidal wave is about to crash into the global economy. 

AI is about to turn the internet into a total nightmare

Tech Insider : Economy
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AI bots and AI-generated content are flooding the internet with spam, scams, and misinformation. And it's making it a nightmare to be online.

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The death of hobbies

Tech Insider : Economy
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Hobbies have been killed off and milked for cash — but in the rush to turn a passion into a side hustle, the fire a person has for that activity can be snuffed out.

Robyn Phelps/Insider

How side hustles turned everyone's leisure activities into work

The weird and disastrous rise of generational warfare

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A collage of different generations, from left to right, millennials, boomers, gen-z.
Gen Z hates boomers, everyone hates millennials, and no one thinks about Gen X. Why are we so obsessed with talking about generations?

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