‘I’ve had this black cloud looming over me’: How private lenders have left millions of college students with no hope for the future

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A small piggy bank is surrounded by a hurricane of student loan papers, unable to escape.
Despite the political fight over student-loan forgiveness, people with private student debt are stuck with predatory loan terms they can't escape.

Chelsea Jia Feng/Insider

The fight over 'return to office' policies has a dirty downside

Tech Insider : Economy, Climate Crisis
A small globe symbolizing the earth sits in a trash bin full of thrown away bunches of paper. The trash bin is sandwiched in between two large gray file cabinets in front of a dull beige wall.
Return to office mandates also come with a return to dirty, carbon-emitting commutes.

Arantza Pena Popo/Insider

Push to end work-from-home could make climate crisis worse

TikTok influencers want to rent you a very cool home. Just don't call them landlords.

Tech Insider : Economy
A house has multiple individuals in rooms swiped in and out, much like a person scrolling through TikTok videos
Social media sparked a rise in the popularity of "house hacking," a fancy new term for the age-old concept of being a landlord that has been repackaged for a new generation of real-estate investors.

Arantza Pena Popo/Insider

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

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

Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/Insider

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.

Arantza Pena Popo/Insider

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

Goldman Sachs is having an identity crisis

Tech Insider : Economy
A Goldman Sachs vase smashed to pieces
Goldman Sachs has gone from a disciplined force of finance's greatest killers to a humbled and weakened shell of itself.

Tyler Le/Insider

I never thought I'd write this but … I miss the old Goldman Sachs.

AI is about to turn the internet into a total nightmare

Tech Insider : Economy
Amid an orange background, a swirl of fluid white and orange lines and stars chaotically disrupt an array of dark blue internet windows. Binary code decorates the orange background
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.

Arantza Pena Popo/Insider

The genius plan that could bring down skyrocketing home prices

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
large triplex with a price tag/New Zealand flag attached and two small homes with price tags/American flags attached
If the US wants to build more homes, slow down rent growth, and give more people a place to live, it needs to learn from New Zealand.

Tyler Le/Insider

The trick America's biggest drug companies are using to screw over taxpayers

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
American Flag made out of pills and syringes
Americans are not only paying through the nose for their prescriptions but also receiving none of the benefits from having a robust "American" pharmaceutical industry.

Tyler Le/Insider

There's a mystery lurking in America's national medicine cabinet.

There are way too many real estate agents — and it's screwing over homebuyers

Tech Insider : Economy
Real estate agents run to get a deal on a house for sale.
A surplus of real-estate agents is bad for both the industry and regular home buyers and sellers.

Chelsea Jia Feng/Insider

A glut of mediocre Realtors is screwing over homebuyers

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