The Supreme Court may shut down student loan forgiveness — and refinancing startups are waiting to pounce

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A student nervously tries between two piggy banks, one with the American flag on it and the other with a bandit mask on.
Student loan refinancing companies like SoFi, Lendkey, and Navient offer big savings. But they also come with a big cost.

Liam Eisenberg for Insider

Gen Z is radically reshaping dating

Tech Insider : Economy
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Instead of relying on dating apps or meeting a stranger, Gen Z is increasingly finding romance in their friend groups.

Arif Qazi / Insider

Young people are adopting an old-fashioned solution for the humiliation and hassle of dating apps

A new email tool proves the AI revolution has already arrived

Tech Insider
A human hand holding a stack of paper work and a robot hand coming in and making the paperwork disappear

Tyler Le/Insider

I get more emails than I can handle. Every day, I watch as the unread messages in my inbox pile up despite my best efforts. It's not because I spend too much time responding to the emails that matter — I spend too much time reading the ones that don't. 

Science has found a simple way to free us from our addiction to social media

Tech Insider
Person using the app mentioned in the story is experiencing waves of calming emotions wash over them.
Most of us are helplessly addicted to our phones. I tried a new app that can help you reclaim your time.

Will Varner/Insider

A simple trick can cure your addiction to social media

Forget the 'death of downtowns' — we're about to experience the Big City Renaissance

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
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City downtowns aren't doomed — the rise of remote work is about to spark the Big City Renaissance.

Daniel Zender for Insider

America's great cities are in a precarious spot.

Self-centered boomers destroyed the economy — and now millennials and Gen Z are paying the price

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
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Boomers have created a bottleneck of workers and housing, crippling the economy for millennials and Gen Z.

Tyler Le/Insider

Their greed destroyed the economy — and now millennials and Gen Z are paying the price

The housing market's biggest shocker: Your rent may actually fall this year

Tech Insider : Economy
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The apartment market is "rapidly shifting in favor of renters," and that means tenants can expect lower rent and a lot of new perks.

Robyn Phelps/Insider

Tenants are finally gaining power in the housing market

Tesla lost its edge — and Elon Musk has no one but himself to blame

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
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Tesla spent the past two decades defying expectations and disrupting the automotive industry, but now it's starting to fall behind the rest of the auto industry.

Getty; Marianne Ayala/Insider

The new Bing is acting all weird and creepy — but the human response is way scarier

Tech Insider
An animation of three robot heads showing three different emotions
Everyone is freaking out because Microsoft's ChatGPT clone flirted with a journalist and said it wanted to be alive. But the hysteria is missing the real menace: humans.

Tyler Le/Insider

Wall Street's elite investors are privately warning that the stock market is headed for another scary plunge

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A surprised Wall Street bull about to be hit by a big, red boomerang
Wall Street was lulled into a false sense of security, according to the investing world's elite, and this complacency will make the coming stock market reversal even more excruciating.

Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/Insider

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