America's economy is being wildly mismeasured

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A stock line as the neck of an ostrich in the ground
The surveys and polls that help us understand the lived experience of Americans are getting less reliable.

Chris Gash for BI

When was the last time you picked up a phone call from an unknown number?

Why America's hospitals are on life support

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A loan shark about to eat a hospital

Anson Chan for BI

In community after community, the hospitals keep closing. In 2018, it was Northside Regional Medical Center in Youngstown, Ohio.

America has descended into a new Red Scare

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
Three farm water pump windmills. One of the windmills resembles a Communist hammer and sickle symbol.
The backlash in Green Charter represents something seldom seen since the Red Scare: a quasi-militant, homegrown resistance to the perceived threat of communism at home.

Matt Harrison Clough for BI

If Trump is reelected, Americans are planning to flee in droves

Tech Insider : Politics, Politics
Photo illustration of a man with luggage and a Canadian flag in the background.
After November, Europe could well become what Canada was for draft dodgers during the Vietnam War: a political asylum for Americans fed up with their own country.

Prostock-Studio/Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BI

One woman saw the Great Recession coming. Wall Street's boys club ignored her.

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
Illustration of a woan stopping a bomb.
As chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Brooksley Born saw the financial crisis coming. But no one listened.

Andrius Banelis for BI

This is an excerpt adapted from "WOMEN MONEY POWER: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality."

'Something has gone very wrong': the truth about DEI

Tech Insider : Economy
Photo collage featuring a diverse group of employees: a businessman walking with a briefcase, a black woman in a wheelchair reading from an iPad, and a rear-view of a woman wearing a hijab surrounded by bar charts and circles
Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are under attack. But DEI is crucial for a better America.

Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

Gen Z is living with their parents to save money. But it's going to cost them, big time.

Tech Insider : Economy
A young woman standing in front of a house
Like millennials, Gen Z is living with their parents well into their 20s. But in the long run, it may not be a good idea.

iStock; Rebecca Zisser/BI

Get used to it: America's winters will be a lot less snowy from now on

Tech Insider : Sports, Economy
Outside a window, a child tries to muster up enough snow for a snowman but can't quite. Inside, a photo frame with the same child next to a giant snowman in a snowy version of the same landscape.
Last December was the warmest on record for much of the Midwest. It's the beginning of a new normal.

Tara Anand for BI

I've been tortured by shame since I was 8. Then along came Ozempic.

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Photo of Albert Fox Cahn at home.
The thing about a lifetime of shame is that you have no idea how heavy a burden it is until the moment you set it down.

David Vades Joseph for BI

For Gen Z, a job is just a job: 'I've come to terms with what adulthood is actually like'

Tech Insider : Economy
Gen Z just wants a raise and a promotion.
Gen Z workers just want two things out of a job: a good salary and a quick promotion.

Abanti Chowdhury/ BI

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