America's economy is being wildly mismeasured

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The surveys and polls that help us understand the lived experience of Americans are getting less reliable.

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

I read all the studies on the economic impact of bike lanes. Here's what I learned.

Tech Insider : Economy
A shopping bag locking a bike to a parking meter

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I used resume spammers to apply for 120 jobs. Chaos ensued.

Tech Insider : Economy
Robots filling out stacks of resumes.

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His artisanal marshmallows were the greatest. Then he tried to scale them.

Tech Insider : Business
A factory making square shaped marshmallows

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Jon Sebastiani saw fancy marshmallows for the first time in Paris, and thought they looked like money.

An incredible new map could help bring down America's sky-high home prices

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
Houses rising out of a map

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How flying taxis could go mainstream

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An eVTOL flying through abstract 5G-themed shapes.

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This article is part of "5G and Connectivity Playbook," a series exploring some of our time's most important tech innovations.

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

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

Tech Insider : Economy
A couple drinks wine while a couple with kids walks past
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.

Andrea Chronopoulos for BI

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

He was America's flashiest watch dealer. Then the feds caught up with him.

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Anthony Farrer, aka the Timepiece Gentleman, became famous for selling luxury watches. Then the Feds caught up with him.

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