The steampunk technology that could save America's cities

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
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DumBro: Why every neighborhood in America seems to have an idiotic name

Tech Insider : Economy
City sign photo illustration.
Neighborhood rebrands like SoBro and SoWa were once oddities — now these two-syllable names are an epidemic.

Fine Art Photographic/Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BI

Want to sell your home? Get ready for disappointment.

Tech Insider : Economy
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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.

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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.

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

Tech Insider
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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.

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Welcome to the white-collar recession

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy
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Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

Elon Musk just set Wall Street up for one of his classic head fakes

Tech Insider : Economy
Photo collage of Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, holding a box of office items in front of an Exit sign
There's only one person to blame for Tesla's shambolic state and only one person whose exit could save the company: Elon Musk.

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From hiking in the Alps to snorkeling in Hawaii, it's never been a better time to be a DINK

Tech Insider : Economy
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More and more Americans see being a DINK as the key to a new American dream of financial stability, freedom of choice, and a comfortable retirement.

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Elizabeth Johnson and her husband hit the vacation circuit hard in 2023.

Casual friendships are dying out — and we're all worse off for it

Tech Insider : Economy
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Casual friendships are key to our emotional lives, but these "fringe friends" are slowly disappearing.

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Nikol Moses felt the itch to head somewhere new.

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